California Round Up
Cedars-Sinai Denying Transplant to Medical Marijuana Patient with Inoperable Liver Cancer
Marin Alliance For Medical Marijuana Dodges Feds -- For Now
Petition Drive Challenges Medical Marijuana Ban in Rural California County
Santa Cruz County Supervisors Impose Moratorium on Medical Marijuana Regulations, Join Legal Appeal

Take Action
*Urge your Representative to Co-Sponsor HR 1983*

City and County Meetings
Tuesday, November 22nd - Del Norte County
Tuesday, November 22nd - Placerville City

Chapter and Affiliate Meetings
Friday, November 18th -- Orange County ASA Meeting
Saturday, November 19th -- Los Angeles ASA Meeting
Tuesday, November 22nd -- North County/Oceanside ASA Meeting
Tuesday, November 22nd -- San Francisco ASA Meeting

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Cedars-Sinai Denying Transplant to Medical Marijuana Patient with Inoperable Liver Cancer
Sixty-three year-old medical marijuana patient Norman B. Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009 and sought treatment from the internationally lauded Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Smith's oncologist at Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Steven Miles, approved of his medical marijuana use as a means to deal with the effects of chemotherapy and pain from an unrelated back surgery. In September 2010, Smith became eligible for a liver transplant, but after testing positive for marijuana in February he was removed from the transplant list. Smith's cancer was in remission until just recently, but now he is scheduled to undergo radiation treatments in the next few days.

Read more: http://safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=6960

Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana Dodges Feds -- For Now

Last Wednesday, California's oldest storefront medical marijuana collective, Fairfax-based Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana

, received an eviction notice from its landlord -- which means the dispensary gets to defy the federal government's new war on medical marijuana

and remain open, for now.

Read more: http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/11/marin_alliance_for_medical_marijuana_federal_crackdown.php

Petition Drive Challenges Medical Marijuana Ban in Rural California County

Kern County is not exactly the kind of place where you would expect a voter rebellion, what with its conservative rural residents, its live-off-the-land values and its almost unshakable devotion to the Republican Party. But over the last several months, Kern County — about 100 miles north of Los Angeles and as far as it can get from San Francisco — has become the scene of a civil war of sorts over an issue, medical marijuana,

whose supporters are often of a more liberal stripe.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/04/us/medical-marijuana-ban-challenged-in-kern-county.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Santa Cruz County Supervisors Impose Moratorium on Medical Marijuana Regulations, Join Legal Appeal

The county board of supervisors on Tuesday imposed a moratorium on medical marijuana regulations, instead joining an evolving legal fight over how medical marijuana patients may access their medicine.

Read more: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/localnews/ci_19340037

Take Action
Urge Your Representative to Co-Sponsor HR 1983

Call your representative today, ask him or her to cosponsor HR1983, the States' Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act!

If passed, HR 1983 will essentially end federal interference in state sanctioned programs, provide patients and providers with a defense in federal court, and, most importantly, reclassify cannabis to Schedule III under the Controlled Substance Act. This reclassification will recognize the medicinal value of cannabis, open doors to critical medical research, and create access for people in need across the country!

Use ASA's Online Action Center to ask your Representative in the House to cosponsor this bill, today!

http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/182/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=8453

City and County Ordinance Meetings

Tuesday November 22, 2011 -- Del Norte County -- 8:30AM
Del Norte County Board of Supervisors
981 H Street, Suite 200
Crescent City, CA 95531
707 464-7204

Tuesday November 22, 2011 -- Placerville City -- 7:00PM
City of Placerville
City Clerk Department
3101 Center Street
Placerville, CA 95667
530-642-5531
Chapter and Affiliate Meetings

Friday, November 18th -- Orange County ASA Meeting
7PM @ Giovanni's Pizza, 922 Williamson Ave, Fullerton, CA
For more info, contact: ghostladyjames@gmail.com or 714 377 9434.

Saturday, November 19th -- Los Angeles ASA Meeting
1PM @ First Floor of the West Hollywood Gateway Mall, Room 152, 7100 Sana Monica Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90046
Enter through the glass doors between "Jersey Mike's" and "Beverages &More"
For more info, contact: don@safeaccessnow.org

Tuesday, November 22nd -- North County/Oceanside ASA Meeting
7PM - 9PM @ The Fish Joint, 514 South Coast Hwy, Oceanside, CA 92054
For more info, contact: Eugene@safeaccessnow.org or 619 621 8446.

Tuesday, November 22nd -- San Francisco ASA Meeting
7:30PM @ 847 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
For more info, contact: dcgoldman@yahoo.com or 415 728 7631