Oaksterdam News - V2 Issue 3

ACTION ALERT: Tell DEA To Stop Attacks on Medical Cannabis Patients and Providers!

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,
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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