As of March 1st A2C2 will be 1 year old! Help us celebrate our first
anniversary as A2C2 this Saturday 3/3 with a FREE BBQ!
 
Where:
A2C2 – The All American Cannabis Club
1082 Stockton Ave.
San Jose, CA
 
When:
BBQ: 1pm – 6pm (Tri-tip, Chicken, Sausages, and Vegan burgers food!)
http://a2c2.us/information/free-bbq-saturday/
 
Best Regards,
Dave Hodges

Below is an email that I’ve sent to various groups – So far no luck. Does
anyone out there have the power to help me.
 
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I’m putting together a website on US government censored medical cannabis
studies and need your help.
 
According to various websites:
 
“A two-year study of THC was conducted on rats and mice that found THC
treated animals had significantly lower rates of many types of cancer.
This report was shelved for over two years until a copy was leaked to AIDS
Treatment News, stamped on every page "NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR
ATTRIBUTION" [30]. Health and Human Services quickly made a version
available to the public after being confronted with the leaked copy [26].”
 
QUESTION – Does anyone out there have an actual copy WITH THE WORDS —
“NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OR ATTRIBUTION” etc.
 
Also does anyone have a copy the version that was eventually released by
the NIH?
 
Antique Andy
 
 
 
[26]- NTP Technical Report on the Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of
1-Trans-Delta(9)-Tetrahydrocannabinol (CAS No. 1972-08-3) in F344/N Rats
and B6C3F(1) Mice (Gavage Studies); NTP TR 446, NIH Publication No.
94-3362, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Nov.1996
<"http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/htdocs/LT-studies/tr446.html>;
 
[30]- James, J.S.; Medical Marijuana: Unpublished Federal Study Found THC-
Treated Rats Lived Longer, Had Less Cancer, AIDS Treatment News 1997; 263
 
 
 
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Medjool Owner Goes to Pot
 
 
By: Rigoberto Hernandez | March 2, 2012 – 5:54 pm
 
http://missionlocal.org/2012/03/medjool-owner-goes-to-pot/
 
 
As two more landlords renting to Mission medical marijuana dispensaries
received cease and desist letters, the owner of Medjool Restaurant and
Lounge has joined a group applying to open a dispensary next door.
 
The building owners for the Shambala Healing Center, and 208 Valencia
Caregivers received cease-and-desist letters last month from the U.S.
Attorney Melinda Haag, Mission Loc@l learned Friday. If they fail to close,
they risk property forfeiture the letters warn.
 
The owner of Shambala said he was unclear if he would close.
 
Regardless, Medjool owner Gus Murad is involved in an effort to open a
dispensary a block away from Shambala at 2520 Mission Street, according to
an application filed on February 23. Medjool’s restaurant recently closed,
but the rooftop bar remains open.
 
The name of the dispensary would be Morado Collective.
 
Eduardo Morales and Mohamed Allali are named as the operators of Morado,
but a $8,656 check to pay for the application is from Murad, according to
documents obtained by Mission Loc@l.
 
Calls seeking comment this afternoon went unanswered. When Mission
Loc@lcalled the number listed for the owner/operators, a voice mail
answered,
“Gus Murad, please leave a name and number.”
 
The letter to the landlord concerning the Shambala Healing Center states
that the dispensary is operating in violation of a federal law and could be
subject to “enhanced penalties” because it is operating within “the
prohibited distance” of Jose Coronado Playground, which is on 21st and
Shotwell Streets.
 
If the dispensary does not close within 45 days of receiving the letter,
the landlord could be subject to property forfeiture, according to the
letter.
 
When the San Francisco Planning Department approved the dispensary it
examined the playground’s proximity, but based on information from Rec. and
Park, it determined that the clubhouse was vacant.
 
The dispensary operator Al Shawa said he was just “in shock” that they were
targeting his dispensary because he obtained all the proper permits from
the city just a year ago.
 
“I don’t know who wronged me, the city or the federal government,” he said
adding that he operates under the letter of the law.
 
The healing center has 10 full-time employees with full benefits and they
pay $20,000 in taxes every month, Shawa said.
 
An employee at 208 Valencia Caregivers declined to comment.
 
We will update this story as we get more information.
 
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Marijuana: wrong fight in wrong place
 
 
By U-T San Diego Editorial Staff
 
6 p.m., March 2, 2012
 
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/02/marijuana-wrong-fight-in-wrong-place/
 
 
The inconvenient truth that seems lost on activists hoping to end, via the
ballot box, the 16-year legal battle over medical marijuana in San Diego
and the rest of California is the stone-cold reality that they are fighting
the wrong fight in the wrong place. This battle can only be decided in
Washington, D.C. – not through legislation in Sacramento or initiatives put
to voters here or anywhere else.
 
This reality by now ought to be as obvious as neon signs on the Mile of
Cars. It is evident in the hundreds of medical marijuana dispensaries that
have rightly been shuttered in a coordinated federal crackdown throughout
the state, with more than 200 collectives closed just in San Diego and
Imperial counties through the efforts of U.S. Attorney Laura Duffy, along
with companion efforts by San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith.
 
It became evident even in Mendocino County, the marijuana capital of
California, last month when Duffy’s U.S. attorney counterpart for Northern
California, Melinda Haag, threatened to take the county to court for aiding
and abetting the local marijuana growers. Rather than fight that losing
cause, the Mendocino Board of Supervisors instead voted to end its
2-year-old program under which the Mendocino Sheriff’s Office stopped
raiding medical marijuana growers, who in return paid a $1,500 fee and
agreed to inspections and a variety of regulations.
 
Still, activists in San Diego and statewide continue to seek signatures on
petitions to put separate measures on the ballot to tax and regulate
medical marijuana.
 
The propositions could well win spots on the ballot and might even be
approved by voters, just as California voters in 1996 approved Proposition
215 to legalize medical cannabis and just as 15 other states and the
District of Columbia have since passed similar medical marijuana laws.
 
But then what?
 
By federal law and regulation, marijuana is classified as a Schedule 1
drug, defined as having the greatest potential for abuse and no accepted
medical use.
 
No local or statewide ballot proposition is going to change that. The
conflict with federal law would remain. Federal law trumps state and local
law, nevermind what voters approve.
 
You want to change that? Fine. Go to Washington and lobby the Obama
administration and members of Congress. You’ve already got one supporter,
Rep. Bob Filner, D-San Diego, the mayoral candidate who last year signed a
letter with eight of his colleagues to President Obama urging that
marijuana be reclassified as a Schedule II or III drug, the effect of which
would be to allow states to legalize it for medicinal purposes.
 
That’s democracy. You want change? Get the votes. Just because the odds are
long is no justification for ignoring the law. And you can and should
expect prosecutors to do their job in the meantime.
 
 
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/mar/02/marijuana-wrong-fight-in-wrong-place/
 
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Can you email me your position paper on de schedule mj on the CSA.
Currently Ive managed to have SF taskforce hold off on voting to
support re-schedule. Until members have had a chance to consider
other options and perspectives. Thank you..shona
 
 
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share this info pls .thx
 
Court Rulings
Cc: CaNORML <s..[email protected]>
 
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Cal NORML Legal News:
The legal status of medical cannabis dispensaries has been
bolstered by two appellate court rulings in the past week.
In the first, People v. Colvin, the Second Appellate District,
Division Three rejected prosecutors' claim that all collective
members must participate in cultivation. The court reversed the
conviction of William Frank Colvin, who was convicted for
transportation after being denied a medical marijuana defense under SB
420 (HSC 11362.775) because he was not engaged in the cultivation
process. The court specifically re-affirmed the legitimacy of
dispensaries in this situation.
Court opinion at:
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/B227958.PDF
In the second decision, Lake Forest v Evergreen Caregivers, the
Fourth Appellate District, Division Three ruled that local governments
may not prohibit medical marijuana dispensaries altogether, PROVIDED
that they are at sites where medical marijuana is "collectively or
cooperatively cultivated." The court found that SB 420 (HSC
11362.775) obliged local governments to accommodate collective/
cooperative cultivation projects. The Lake Forest ruling seems to be
inconsistent with Colvin, insofar as the latter authorized
transportation from Humboldt Co to LA, while the former limited
transportation to "collective amounts at the collective site."
Opinion at:
http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/G043909.PDF
 
This is not the final word on the sticky question of what kind of
collective/dispensary operations are legal. Both decisions could be
taken up the state Supreme Court, which has already agreed to take up
four other important appellate decisions on this subject. It will
probably be a year before the court issues its decision.
– Dale Gieringer, Cal NORML
 
Dale Gieringer – s..[email protected]
California NORML www.canorml.org
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