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Push for Medicinal Pot!
Posted by FoM on April 25, 1999 at 16:28:36 PT
Source: San Jose Mercury
Access: Attorney general leads an effort to clarify law, set up a marijuana-distribution system for suffering patients. Determined to get medicinal marijuana to suffering patients, California law enforcement and cannabis advocates are uniting on myriad proposals, ranging from clinical studies to pondering a state-run pot field.
In a tough balancing act, state officials seek to draft a law that clarifies California's murky 1996 medicinal marijuana initiative without drawing the fury of federal officials who vow to snuff out medicinal pot.The campaign is headed by new Attorney General Bill Lockyer, who is a stark contrast to his Republican predecessor, Dan Lungren, the arch foe of Proposition 215, which voters approved to allow doctors to prescribe homegrown medicinal pot.Lungren joined federal prosecutors in a lawsuit last year that shut private ``cannabis clubs'' that distributed marijuana to patients.Lockyer brings a personal commitment to the issue after watching his mother and sister die from leukemia. ``It always amazes me that doctors can prescribe morphine but not marijuana,'' he said.He has assembled a task force of unlikely allies -- prosecutors and narcotics agents, pot advocates and doctors -- determined to hammer out a law that brings marijuana relief to patients who genuinely need it.Click the above link to read the full article!
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on April 25, 1999 at 20:58:36 PT
Just a Short Note!
Hello Everyone,It is getting close to midnight and I am concerned about the CIH virus, so I thought it might be best to wait until the 27th to post any articles. Please come back and anyone that is going to any of the Million Marijuana March Events that would like to write about their experience and send it to me I would gladly post it for others to read.Thanks for visitng Cannabis News! Peace, FoM!
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