Archive for the ‘Medical Marijuana Information’ Category
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
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!
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Sunday, June 6th, 2010
From the Daily News:
“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…”
Read Tony Anderson’s entire story online.
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Judge David P. Yaffe
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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Monday, May 24th, 2010
From the ASA Blog -
“Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed an appeal of the Zoning Administrator’s interpretation of the new medical cannabis ordinance in Los Angeles on Friday. The appeal challenges the Zoning Administrator’s position on parking and nonconforming use status for medical cannabis collectives…”
Read the entire post on the ASA Blog.
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
Los Angeles Zoning Administrator Michael Logrande has published his interpretation of what the city’s zoning rules mean for medical cannabis collectives in the city. His interpretation acknowledges that collectives can locate in any zone in the city, provided that they meet the requirements of the new ordinance. Collective operators struggling to find compliant locations may be surprised, however, to see a new hurdle in the interpretation. Mr. Logrande states that collectives “operate in a way that is similar to medical offices and clinics,” and should therefore have one parking space per two hundred square feet of floor space. This may make finding a location even harder than it is already.
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