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Smoke Signals 
Posted by CN Staff on September 12, 2003 at 09:06:57 PT
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Source: Metro Santa Cruz 
One year after machine-gun toting DEA agents raided WAMM's garden at dawn, destroying the Alliance's 2002 medical marijuana crop, WAMM continues to challenge the notion that feds can invade medical gardens that have been deemed legal under state law. Sure, Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose's federal District Court did acknowledge medical marijuana's benefits, but this was in the context of dismissing the lawsuit that seven WAMM members and the city and county brought against the DEA as a result of the 2002 raid. 
As WAMM co-founder Valerie Corral put it, "It's tragic that this sympathy, compassion and recognition of medical marijuana's benefits were not given legal effect. Marijuana is medicine. It's time to stop treating patients like criminals." As attorneys for WAMM plan to appeal Fogel's ruling, WAMM is throwing its first WAMMfest, a fundraiser and celebration featuring music, clothes, foods, glassware, jewelry, snacks--and of course, everything cannabis. But Corral dismisses the notion that the fest will be a big smoke-out, noting that there will be a place where people will medicate, but it will be "strictly regulated, with only card-carrying members participating." The WAMMfest happens Sunday, Sept. 14, 10am-5pm, San Lorenzo Park; 831-423-5413Source: Metro Santa Cruz (CA)Published: September 10 - 17, 2003Copyright: 2003 Metro Publishing Inc.Contact: msc metcruz.comWebsite: http://www.metroactive.com/cruz/Related Articles & Web Sites:WAMMhttp://www.wamm.org/Pictures from WAMM Protesthttp://freedomtoexhale.com/eventpics.htmMedicinal-Pot Raid To Be Rememberedhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17265.shtmlWAMM Plans Family Dayhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17153.shtml 
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on September 12, 2003 at 09:18:05 PT
News Brief from The Santa Cruz Sentinel
Medical-Pot Collective Readies for Sunday Santa Cruz WAMMfest, a benefit for the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, will be held 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday in San Lorenzo Park.The event will feature music and food and merchandise vendors, as well as a space for WAMM’s 200-plus members to smoke marijuana in private.The fair, not coincidentally, will be held close to the one-year anniversary of a raid by armed federal agents on WAMM’s medical pot garden near Davenport. On Sept. 5, 2002, agents plucked more than 160 plants the medical pot collective said were intended for sick and dying WAMM members. Admission is free. For information, call 425-0580 or check the Web site: http://www.wamm.org/http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2003/September/12/local/stories/07local.htm
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