Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich will make a motion on Tuesday to ban patients’ collectives and cooperatives in the unincorporated areas of the county. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is calling on medical cannabis supporters in Los Angeles County to contact their representative on the Board of Supervisors (BOS) and attend Tuesday’s BOS meeting to oppose the effort.
What: LA County BOS Meeting
When: 1:00 PM * Tuesday, July 6
Where: Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration, 500 Temple St., Room 381 B, downtown Los Angeles, CA 90012
This is an important meeting, and your help is needed. Please visit http://safeaccessnow.org/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=5540 to get contact information for your Supervisor and talking points for Tuesday’s meeting. This is short notice, so please forward this message to friends and loved ones who care about safe access.
An employee at a medical cannabis collective in Northridge was shot in the face and critically wounded on Saturday – the third violent armed robbery in Los Angeles in less than one week. It is unlikely that the robberies are related, but the sudden outburst of violence has turned up the heat in the debate about medical cannabis state wide. Some elected officials are already using these tragedies as a rationale for rolling back safe access at the state and local level.
ASA Government Affairs Director Caren Woodson debates Ron Brooks, President of the National Narcotics Officers’ Associations’ Coalition, about medical cannabis regulation in a webcast hosted by the National League of Cities. Local governments all over the country are grappling with how to regulate medical cannabis, and tactics proposed by our opponents are increasingly sophisticated. ASA is working to help frame the debate about medical cannabis and local regulations to establish protect safe access for patients nationwide.
Read more about the webcast and ASA’s work on the ASA website.
I call on medical cannabis patients and providers to join me in supporting ASA, the nation’s largest organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. ASA’s work helped make a place for safe access – and we need this ongoing work right now to hold the ground we have and push forward against a growing backlash. Please join ASA today!
“Annoyed by how medical marijuana clinics have abused the law, Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant on Friday denied a flurry of requests for temporary restraining orders to stop Los Angeles from enforcing its new medical marijuana ordinance on Monday…”
The LA Times reports that Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe has denied a request for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that would have blocked enforcement of the new medical cannabis ordinance against hundreds of collectives that opened after the Los Angeles city Council adopted a moratorium on new facilities in 2007. The plaintiffs hoped to stop the city from closing the post moratorium collectives when the city’s tough new ordinance takes effect on June 7.
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ASA Government Affairs Director Caren Woodson debates Ron Brooks, President of the National Narcotics Officers’ Associations’ Coalition, about medical cannabis regulation in a 
