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Volume 2 Issue 3 - Summer 2006 Dispensary reviews Part three in our series: Odam News visits SF dispensaries Ok, here’s the city where the cannabis movement began. San Francisco has dozens of medical cannabis dispensaries available to visit and purchase low grade to “one hitter quitter” type grade cannabis anywhere from 8 am to midnight.   ... Read More >> Patient ID Cards Safe Access Now: States voluntary cannabis ID card adds protections, responsibilities California voters approved Prop. 215, the Compassionate Use Act, almost a decade ago. However, issues involving the medicinal use of cannabis continues to be a daily subject in news and courts around the state.     The Act, now Health and S ... Read More >> Measure Z New police chief supports Measure Z The Oakland Cannabis Regulation and Revenue Ordinance Oversight Committee heard from police Chief Wayne Tucker at their April 20 meeting. The Chief answered questions about cannabis arrest statistics and Measure Z implementation issues.      ... Read More >> NORML Mirkarimi receives award at NORML conference for the SF dispensary plan Comic Tommy Chong made a special guest appearance when the grassroots of cannabis reform met in San Francisco April 20-22. The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, NORML, held its well-attended annual conference in the Bay city to educa ... Read More >> Cannabis smoke ok Largest-ever federally-sponsored smoking study clears the air NIDA: Even very heavy marijuana smoking does not cause cancer     Opponents of the relegalization of marijuana frequently argue that marijuana smoke contains a number of carcinogenic chemicals and that therefore the prohibition of marijuana ... Read More >> How to Online activism made easy How to reform drug policy using DrugSense / MAP DrugSense is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides accurate information about drug policy, offers wide-raging services from an archive of news articles to web hosting, to promotion of broadcas ... Read More >> Plant for a patient Grower's pride is part of the process Grower's pride is part of the process of cultivating high quality medicine We do not advocate breaking any laws with the information provided in this column. Here we are with our first garden contest winner, and we’re already changing the rules. The P ... Read More >> Oaksterdam A brief history of the Oaksterdam district     Some 220 years after the founding of the American Republic, California voters had qualified the first statewide medical marijuana initiative for the ballot and the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club was in its heyday. Read More >> OCBC OCBC gets Alameda county contract, retains its own cards Oakland Cannabis Buyers Cooperative director Jeff Jones confirmed May 30 that his organization has been awarded the agency contract to  issue the Alameda County patient ID cards as part of SB 420. He said that the popular  and well-received non- ... Read More >>

Fully Informed Federal Court: Juries free to acquit Appellate ruling affirms Feds can disregard medical rights, juries cannot be punished for their verdicts      When cannabis activist and “guru of ganja” Ed Rosenthal was convicted on cannabis cultivation charges in 2003, ... Read More >> Blatant politics Congressmembers, media ridicule FDA cannabis statement     In a blatent political maneuver, the US Food and Drug Administration made an out-of-thin-air announcement on April 20 (4/20) that no studies support medical marijuana. The release was timed to coincide with the national NORML conference ... Read More >> ASA Report Americans for Safe Access Highlights FDA hits patients, Colorado ASA effort, Emeryville pays Americans for Safe Access is a patient advocacy group on the forefront of the defense of patients’ medical marijuana rights. ASA organizes rapid response actions, as needed, and maintains legal ... Read More >> Dr. Tod Cannabis pioneer Dr. Tod Mikuriya honored Dr. Tod Mikuriya, perhaps the world’s foremost cannabis practitioner, was recently honored by Patients Out of Time, NORML and the California Coalition Against Prohibition. Mikuriya, shown here holding his CCAP award, was a staff researcher with Pres... Read More >> Oakland Mayor Dellums victory in mayoral race looks good for Oaksterdam     Oakland political icon and former NORML boardmenber Ron Dellums took a commanding lead in the city mayoral race that may power him into office without needing a runoff vote.     Dellums rode popular disaffection with the s ... Read More >> Famous stoner Interview: Chong revels in stoner stereotype Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong was keynote speaker at the 2006 national NORML conference. After the showing of his forthcoming documentary, AKA Tommy Chong was cancelled due to smoking in the screening area, the former Drug War POW came by to talk with m ... Read More >> New outlets Two new dispensaries to open in Oakland In two long awaited announcements, the City of Oakland recently released the names of its final choices to receive medical cannabis dispensary licenses.     Keith Stephenson won approval for his proposal for a facility at 415 Fourth St ... Read More >> Industrial Hemp California racing North Dakota to restart industrial hemp farming     Is 50 years of prohibition on “industrial” hemp farming about to end? That’s what US farmers are asking as they have new reasons to believe 2007 could mark the first US hemp crop harvest since 1957. Since demand for he ... Read More >> SD Medical Marijuana South Dakota medical marijuana initiative makes November ballot South Dakota officials certified May 31 that a petition drive had submitted enough signatures to qualify a medical marijuana initiative for the fall ballot. Sponsored by South Dakotans for Medical Marijuana, sdmedicalmarijuana.org, the initiative would ma ... Read More >> Equal Rights Battle for equality with beer drinkers motivates CO cannabis campaign SAFER: On campuses, on cable TV, and all over     The Colorado-based organization Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation, SAFER, that coordinated the successful legalization initiative campaign in Denver last fall, is now fully engage ... Read More >> Local initiatives California cities wrap up signature drives, get ready for the fall election Committees in the cities of Santa Cruz, Santa Monica, and Santa Barbara wrapped up their petition drives and submitted sufficient numbers of signatures to place initiatives on their city ballots making adult cannabis offenses law enforcement’s lowes ... Read More >> Activist Campaigns CAN: Cannabis Action Network regroups     The Berkeley-based legalization group Cannabis Action Network is holding regular meetings and planning a busy schedule of tabling at events this summer. CAN believes that ending the war against our fellow citizens starts with everbody g ... Read More >> Sponsors Support our advertisers The following are ads placed in our print edition by our sponsors. Please be sure and mention you saw their advertisement on the Oaksterdam News website. Have a related business to promote? Oaksterdam News has a wide range of advertising options available... Read More >>

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