what shona said. i totally agree. all for one, one for all. don't let
the government manipulate our interests against each other. we should
maintain one united front.
 
 
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Axis of Love SF, Shona Gochenaur <
 
—
JUSTIN DeCASTRO
s..[email protected]
Live & Let Live! Love & Let Love!

Justin and Shona,
 
I completely agree, and note that this is true for every industry, not just marijuana. No one wants their collective, business, or operation closed, and limits on how many operators can exist only serve to keep prices higher and quality lower. Thanks for articulating these important truths.
 
Despite the ban that now exists on paper, there are still tons of dispensaries in Los Angeles. Arguing for more regulations on them than exist now (e.g. giving the authorities an avenue to develop a partial ban in the form of more workable controls and limits they might be able to actually enforce) doesn't seem to me like "creating policies that improve access to cannabis" per ASA's stated mission.
 
I'm glad to hear ASA is supporting a referendum to overturn the ban, and would urge them to focus their L.A. efforts on this, rather than on promoting "sensible" regulation.
 
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
 
 
On Sep 1, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Justin DeCastro wrote:
 

Americans for Safe Access has undertaken a controversial program to call Obama to account for his broken mmj campaign pledge and his attack on mmj providers in California, Washington, Colorado and Oregon. To learn more about their program, Steph Sherer, Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access, will be our featured guest on the Monday, Sept. 3 at 6 p.m. broadcast and simulcast of our radio show Marijuana Compassion and Common Sense.
 
Steph will explain the program that will print and distribute 100,000 posters in Presidential swing states like Colorado and Nevada. The posters ask the question, "Can Broken Promises Lose an Election? 1 Million Medical Marijuana Patients Will Decide.”

Critics have charged that the campaign will take votes away from Obama thereby insuring Romney’s victory in the swing states in which they will be distributed. Steph Sherer has written that the purpose of the campaign is to warn Obama that he may very well lose states like Colorado, key to his victory, as many mmj and mj reform voters will vote for one of the third party candidates who support ending marijuana prohibition and the rights of mmj patients rather than vote for him.
 
If he doesn’t take a more enlightened view of marijuana, he could lose the election because so many patients and marijuana consumers will vote for a candidate who supports their views – a view which just happens to also be the view of the majority of Democratic voters in every poll about medical marijuana and marijuana legalization.
 
Obama needs to be confronted with not only the horrors his attack on medical marijuana providers has caused, but also that he is out of touch with the majority of Democratic voters and legislators. ASA intends to do just that.
 
One of those people who would also like to do that and to take votes from Obama and Romney and everyone else is our second guest Bruce Cain. A dedicated medical marijuana activist who has thrown his hat into the political ring as an independent candidate for President, Bruce will explain why he is running, how he plans to reach out to voters and why it is critical for mmj patients and law reform advocates to get actively involved in the political process.
 
Tune in this Monday, Sept. 3 at 6 p.m. to hear Steph and Bruce discuss strategies to get marijuana into the Presidential campaign. Listen in this Monday at 6 p.m. and every Monday at 6 p.m. for the award winning radio show Marijuana Compassion and Common Sense on IE talk radio KCAA 1050AM and simulcast at www.kcaaradio.com.

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Media Coordinator, Angela Bacca, was one of only two people to visit Eddy
Lepp in prison in Southern California. She was banned after her first visit
indirectly because she wrote an article about it for SKUNK
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Now that Eddy has been transferred to FCI La Tuna in West Texas Angela has
been reapproved to visit! We need donations so that we can send her to
Texas to visit. It will be his first visit in over a year or more! We need
to raise approximately $1,000 to send her out!
 
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http://www.examiner.com/node/52249891

GOVERNOR GARY JOHNSON
 
 
WANTS TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA
 
 
(HE EVEN SAID SO WHEN HE WAS STILL IN OFFICE)
 
 
OF COURSE, MANY PEOPLE WOULD SAY THAT GOV. JOHNSON
 
 
HAS AS MUCH CHANCE OF BECOMING THE NEXT PRESIDENT
 
 
AS A MAN WITH A BROKEN LEG HAS OF EVER REACHING
 
 
THE SUMMIT OF MT. EVEREST
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
GARY JOHNSON, TWO MONTHS AFTER BREAKING HIS LEG,
 
 
STANDING (PAINFULLY) ON THE SUMMIT OF MT. EVEREST.
 
 
IF YOU SPEND ANY TIME WITH THIS MAN,
 
 
YOU SOON LEARN THAT WITH GARY JOHNSON
 
 
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

Glad to hear your alright.! Truly, it was so sudden and excited for your
next chapter. I know what your saying about engery and frustration. And
you've engraved this image of these monkeys fucking the foot ball in my
mind and it makes shameful and suprised sense , prefect sense. That's
exactly the perfect picture of the state of things. Not sure how we stop
the monkeys from humping the football? Might make perfect sense just to
leave them to their own devices.
On Aug 31, 2012 12:44 PM, "Mickey Martin" <s..[email protected]>
wrote:
 

http://mobile.oregonlive.com/advorg/pm_29237/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=odJcat9N

Hi Shona! You mention a "request for transparent planning for 2014 draft"
in your email to Kubby. I have news about this. Last week-end at the
Seattle Hempfest, we held a meeting of 13 people with representatives from
the two 2012 initiatives (Regulate Marijuana Like Wine and Repeal Cannabis
Prohibition) for the purpose of uniting around one 2014 California
initiative. Judge Jim Gray chaired the meeting, which also included Steve
Collette & Steve Kubby from RMLW; Bill Panzer, Omar Figueroa, Frank Lucido
& myself from Repeal Cannabis Prohibition; Amanda Rain from Oaksterdam U;
Kristin Nevedal from Emerald Growers Association, and Granddaddy Mike. It
was productive and positive. At the end we all pledged to put aside our
differences and work together for one united 2014 initiative. We decided
to meet again after the Nov election to hash out particulars, including
wording, consensus decision-making, and who speaks for the group. We
rejected one thing, i.e., language that would include any new marijuana
penalties, such as the DUI penalties in I-502. By competing in 2012, we
failed to move forward; by collaborating as one voice, we can win in 2014.
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My advice to Steve,loveingly .. pls answer my request for transperant
planning for 2014 draft