cannabisnews.com: Patients Push Back After DEA Raids in Santa Rosa Patients Push Back After DEA Raids in Santa Rosa Posted by CN Staff on May 31, 2002 at 13:08:30 PT Press Release Source: U.S. Newswire Under the banner "Americans For Safe Access," activists in 50 cities nationwide will attempt to disrupt business-as-usual on June 6 at local outposts of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Patients and their supporters vowed to ratchet up the fight for state medical marijuana laws following raids on dispensaries operating in Santa Rosa, Calif. on Wednesday that resulted in two arrests. Over the weekend, trainings in dozens of cities will cover non-violent civil disobedience and complement the barrage of letters, faxes, phone calls and other correspondence to decision makers that the group is working to generate in the weeks ahead. Now legal in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington, dispensaries are the only safe source for seriously ill patients to access medical marijuana. "These raids are criminal," says Steph Sherer, executive director with Americans for Safe Access "nine states and 73 percent of the American public believe that medical marijuana should be safe and legal, yet the DEA is now working harder than ever to turn these patients into criminals." Now, with new pressure from the Bush Administration to connect the "war on terror" to the "war on drugs" under the rubric of "narcoterrorism" the Agency is aggressively targeting state laws that permit medical marijuana. This new push to crackdown on "renegade states" will receive a final green light on June 7 when lawyers expect the United States District Court for Northern California to finalize a decision ruling that Federal drug prohibitions supercede state laws. During the "day of direct action," compassionate use advocates will employ a host of non-violent tactics to get their point across. According to the "Cease and Desist" order that the group plans to post prominently at all 50 DEA offices across the nation, "effective immediately, any person who makes unauthorized entry into medical marijuana dispensaries operating lawfully under state jurisdiction will be subject to coordinated grass-roots resistance." Complete Title: Patients Push Back After DEA Raids In Santa Rosa; Advocates Training For Nationwide Protests, Civil Disobedience To locate contacts for actions across the country please call Americans for Safe Access at 202-986-6186. For more information or to arrange interviews with representatives from medical marijuana dispensaries, patients or other ASA activists please call Brant Olson at 202-986-6186 or 202-365-3535 (cell). Contact: Brant Olson, 202-986-6186 or Steph Sherer, 510-872-7822, both for Americans For Safe Access Source: U.S. Newswire Published: May 31, 2002Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire Website: http://www.usnewswire.com Contact: http://www.usnewswire.com/contactusn.htmlRelated Articles & Web Sites:Americans for Safe Accesshttp://safeaccessnow.org Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmHands Off Our Freedomshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13013.shtmlEvicted: Medical Pot Club Loses Its Home http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13011.shtmlDEA Raids Santa Rosa Pot Club, Arrests 2 http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13000.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #7 posted by FoM on June 01, 2002 at 11:39:49 PT eco-man You do a great job. I'm impressed with how you do what you do because I have no idea how to do anything in a newsgroup. I only know news and links like yours really help expand the news. I appreciate all you are doing. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by eco-man on June 01, 2002 at 11:35:57 PT Email list public archive. June 6 Direct Action. The link below also leads to publicly-archived list messages about the June 6 2002 National Day of Direct Action at DEA offices in over 50 cities. For Medical Cannabis. *MMM (Million Marijuana March) and Global Cannabis Action. Marches and rallies, the first Saturday in May of each year. Worldwide (since 1999). May 3 2003, May 4 2002. May 5, 2001. May 6, 2000. May 1, 1999. Over 200 cities so far ... and counting!!! Other multi-city cannabis events are covered, too. Email list public archive for event info, ideas, MMM 2002 rally reports, photo attachments, links, HTML web pages, etc.. Also, Dana Beal's most recent messages include the latest, continually-revised, compilation of MMM 2003 cities, contacts, and rally info. After subscribing to this Yahoo Group email list, please use cannabisaction yahoogroups.com for sending in messages. 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Homepage: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by dddd on June 01, 2002 at 04:23:18 PT ......Spooky..... ..I think it's rather spooky to see this article on USNewswire............I regularly surf by USNewswire,and it is usually dominated by articles of a federal propaganda-ish nature...I've got a feeling that they published this "press release",as some sort of obscure harbinger....?....I'll betchya there will be BIGTIME "crowd control" from local law enforcement agencies...I'll bet theuy will try to nuetralize it before it begins,by restricting access to the buildings,,and immediatly busting protesters for not having a "permit",,,pulling over "suspected protesters" and charging people with violating the numerous obscure laws that are used to smother demonstrations......it's going to be an exciting day.......indeedddd [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by p4me on May 31, 2002 at 22:34:17 PT Busch and company are crazy This new push to crackdown on "renegade states" will receive a final green light on June 7 when lawyers expect the United States District Court for Northern California to finalize a decision ruling that Federal drug prohibitions supercede state laws. This is really sad that the American people are not outraged by this. History is not going to look kindly on this fraud pushed on the American people. People with any sense do not look kindly on it now. I think it was the FDA director under Clinton that told Peter Jennings in his special called "Bitter Medicine" that for the FDA to consider it medicine it just has to be better than nothing. Marijuana is a lot better than nothing for many things and it has a huge advantage over pills in that the masses of the earth can plant a seed in their backyard and have a miracle medicine that can help them with many things.It is all crap and I believe someone should call for the impeachment of the President on the floor of Congress. This is just unbelievable and not that many people are even concerned. Some fucking America this turned out to be.ICBS,VAAI,POW [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by qqqq on May 31, 2002 at 21:17:16 PT ....Federal Terror!... "Now, with new pressure from the Bush Administration to connect the "war on terror" to the "war on drugs" under the rubric of "narcoterrorism" the Agency is aggressively targeting state laws that permit medical marijuana. This new push to crackdown on "renegade states" will receive a final green light on June 7 when lawyers expect the United States District Court for Northern California to finalize a decision ruling that Federal drug prohibitions supercede state laws." ........................."renegade states"..................? _________..I dont know who came up with this term,,but it has a chilling flavor...In other words,,a state where voters have passed laws are "rengades",,and the laws were passed by "renegade" voters,,who acted as renegades when they chose to vote against federal laws!..Such renegade voting is a form of terrorism against the federal government.....? [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by masscrusader on May 31, 2002 at 13:51:40 PT IDEAS IDEAS- International DEA's [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by schmeff on May 31, 2002 at 13:34:39 PT DEA DEA: Dictating Everyone's Agenda [ Post Comment ] Post Comment