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Philadelphia
Bar
Association
Holding
Medical
Marijuana
Forum
12#1
11/20/98
A forum on the issue of legalization
of marijuana for medicinal purposes, sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar
Association, will take place on Tuesday, 12/1, from 12:30-2:30pm at the
Philadelphia Bar Education Center in Center City Philadelphia. Producers
had hoped to present a balanced panel representing both proponents and
opponents or medical marijuana, but all those invited from the federal
government (Dept. of Justice and Office of National Drug Control Policy)
declined invitations to speak.
Panelists will include:
1) Larry Hirsch, a Philadelphia
attorney who filed a federal class action lawsuit in the US District Court
for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania earlier in the year on behalf
of medical marijuana users. He will be speaking about the legal (particularly
Constitutional) aspects of this issue.
2) Kiyoshi Kuromiya, the
Editor and Publisher of Critical Path AIDS Project and a medical user of
marijuana. He is a
plaintiff in the federal
class action lawsuit filed by Larry Hirsch known as the Action Class for
Freedom of Therapeutic Cannabis and will speak about his experience as
a medical user of an illegal drug.
3) Dr. John P. Morgan, a
researcher at the City University of New York Medical School and co-author
of the book Marijuana Myths Marijuana
Facts. Dr. Morgan will speak about medical research on therapeutic
cannabis.
4) Robert Kampia, Director
of Government Relations for the Marijuana
Policy Project (MPP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to full-time
lobbying at the federal level on the issue of marijuana law-reform.
Kampia will speak about the state of the reform movement in the US as it
relates to marijuana for medicinal use from a policy perspective.
For further information on
this event, contact Mariana Rossman, (215) 247-0074 (phone), (215) 247-0931
(fax), [email protected].
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Issue #68, 11/20/98
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