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Action for Compassion: Rally in Support of Medical Marijuana

Dismalqueen_is_in_LA — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:54:24 GMT

Action for Compassion: Rally in Support of Medical Marijuana

Because a friend in need of medical weed is a friend indeed

Action for Compassion!
Saturday, April 26 * 2:00 PM
LA Federal Building, 11000 Wilshire Blvd.

Join us for a peaceful rally in support of medical cannabis patients & providers
in Southern California who are facing increasing attacks from the DEA!

More than 50 DEA raids in 2007 * Patients & Caregivers indicted
100+ facing federal prosecution *
Property owners intimidated into evicting patients' groups

It is time to stand up to federal interference & intimidation in our communities!
Download, copy, and distribute the rally flyer here!
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Email for more information. Attend the next LA-ASA meeting to get involved.
Hosted by the Greater Los Angeles Caregivers Alliance (GLACA) and
Los Angeles American for Safe Access (ASA)

Click this link for map of location:
www.mapquest.com/maps/1100...0024-3602/

Click this link for a PDF of Recent Escalations of DEA Intervention in medical marijuana states:
www.asaaction.org/files/dea...lation.pdf

Click here to download copies of flier:
www.asaaction.org/files/april26.pdf

Click this link to get involved with helping plan, organize, and promote the event:
www.asaaction.org/index.html

Click this link for GLACA website:
www.caregiversalliance.org/

Click this link for ASA website:
www.americansforsafeaccess.org/

On Saturday 04/26/08 at 2:00 pm there will be a rally and an act of civil disobediance (planting of seedlings) at the federal building in Westwood. Our goal is to turn up the heat on the DEA to stop interferring with California Law and the busines thereof. This rally is also to remind our Govenator that it is time that he stand behind us. While the building will be closed we intend on having the press there and to do that we need a spectacular turn out that is why we are planning for a Saturday.

There is alot going on politically with MMJ right now and we really need to raise awareness to our cause so please support this event so that we get the press needed.

Americans for Safe Access * 1322 Webster St., Suite 402, Oakland, CA 94612 * (888) 929-4367 * www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org
Los Angeles Chapter - 7211 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 800, West Hollywood, CA 90046 * www.ASAaction.org
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Los Angeles ASA Meeting
Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 1:00 PM
Patient ID Center *470 S. San Vicente Blvd., LA
Click here for public transit information.

This will be our regular monthly meeting and the planning
meeting for the "Action for Compassion" rally at the Los
Angeles federal building on Saturday, April 26. Please join us
and invite your friends!

This month, we will be talking about how to talk to elected
officials and the media to dispel bias and overcome
indifference. Read the ASA Media Manual and ABC's of Citizen
Advocacy online.

For more information or media inquiries email Don Duncan

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Bad news regarding Marc Emery. (Crossposted from Politics Tribe)

Poster_Boy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:14:47 GMT

Bad news I am afraid. It's about Marc Emery.

Please go to the original link here, and help keep this topic open. Please post a reply expressing your concern:

http://uspolitics.tribe.net/thread/7e39f67d-5273-441d-8420-d037264d3cb7

Marc Emery, a Canadian cannabis and libertarian activist, is considering a plea bargain to save his two friends from going to prison in the United States. In the following interview on CBC National News, Emery explains the situation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4uc98rM33M

The plea bargain will most likely sentence Marc to a five-year prison term. In consideration of possible incarceration, Emery is “thinking of embarking on a Farewell Tour across Canada to speak to the people one last time.” The following is the proposed schedule:

St. John's, Newfoundland - Feb. 19
Halifax, Nova Scotia - Feb. 21
Moncton, New Brunswick - Feb. 22
Quebec City - Feb. 23
Montreal - Feb. 25
Ottawa - Feb. 26
Toronto - Feb. 27
London - Feb. 29
Sudbury - March 1
Winnipeg - March 3
Regina - March 4
Saskatoon - March 5
Calgary - March 6
Edmonton - March 7
Whitehorse - March 8
Kamloops - March 10
Victoria - March 12

Emery is also asking for help to raise funds for this tour. It’s estimated that the cost will be approximately $12,500. Once $3,000 is raised, the flights will be booked. The 16-city tour has one message, "Ending Prohibition in Our Time: My Crusade to Free The Cannabis Culture."

You can donate to the FAREWELL TOUR in the following ways:

1) PayPal bank transfer:
Send to jodie_giesz@hotmail.com, or donate to the ChipIn

2) Cheque or money order:
Made out to "Marc Emery", memo "Farewell Tour"
307 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 1H6
Canada

3) Cash donations:
Contribute in person at Marc Emery's Cannabis Culture Headquarters, 307 West Hastings Street, Vancouver BC (Deliver only to Marc Emery or Jodie Emery in the CC magazine office downstairs, or to Anna, Rhiannon, or Brandon in the CC Headquarters store on the main floor.)

Additional information on this case and the Cannabis Culture available through the following documentary: The USA vs. Marc Emery.

It’s difficult to explain what it means to witness our society condemn a human being for selling seeds to a plant. Maybe even having the need to explain such a horror, explains why we are at the tipping point, facing extinction due to our destruction of the environment. We, human beings, will never win a war against nature, and by waging it, we are destroying the ecosystem and condemning future generation to a miserable existence on a planet devoid of diverse life.

While we wait for Marc Emery’s future to be decided, we can enjoy and learn from the following documentaries, explaining in detail some of the benefits of Cannabis and the complete disaster known as the ‘War on Drugs’ (Please note that the first few minutes of the first movie are in Dutch, but the rest is in English).

War on Drugs (The Prison Industrial Complex) (1999)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=864268000924014458&hl=en-CA

Hemp Revolution part 1 of 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3070358204716119824&hl=en-CA

Hemp Revolution part 2 of 2
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8376961766517588127&hl=en-CA

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A New Marijuana Channel on YouTube!

Casper Leitch — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:11:10 GMT

There is now a Time 4 Hemp Channel on YouTube you can surf!

When you get time, please visit the site, and if you
like what you see - become a SUBSCRIBER to the
channel.

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

Upon arrival, you'll notice a lisiting of Videos I've
from the Time 4 Hemp Series, along with other
contributions, sorted into playlists and located under
Favorites.

If you are not a member of the YouTube Community, it
is free, quick and easy to join.

A Time 4 Hemp YouTube group has also been established.
Please visit the site.

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Group Site:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

I would be very greatful if you were to check out the
new sites and tell all your friends about them. With
any luck, a lot of people will benefit from the
educational value of they offer.

Keep Strong!

Casper Leitch
Host/Author: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

Time 4 Hemp Cell Phone Website:
http://www.Time4Hemp.com/cell/index.htm

Time 4 Hemp YouTube Video Channel:
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Time4Hemp

Great products can be located in the
Time 4 Hemp Gift Shop at:
http://www.cafepress.com/time4hemp

You can join A Time 4 Hemp Yahoo! Community Group at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/atime4hemp/

You can join the Time 4 Hemp YouTube Community Group at:
http://youtube.com/group/Time4Hemp

Group sites are also found at:
My Space and listed as: Time 4 Hemp Group
TribeNet and listed as: Time_4_Hemp Group

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the history you do not know"
President Harry Truman

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The Peoples Party (a reality tv game show)

Alan — Mon, 29 May 2006 13:30:19 GMT

Is it really possible to have a peoples party at this point in time? A party who's candidate was chosen, and supported by the American people?
Yes... it really is possible. And high time if you ask me.
When I was in school they told me I could be anything I wanted. Even the president of the United States. But they never taught me how. Oh sure, we had a class president and all that, (and I seem to remember something about a cartoon bill that kept getting vetoed or something), but somehow I just don't think it's the same thing. But I have asked dozens of people (smart ones too) if they new how to go about being president if they chose to. None of them had the slightest clue. Not that I would ever want to be the president. I can't even ballance my own check book, (or remember if that cartoon bill ever got passed or not) let alone trying to balance the budget for a nation. However, I have met quite a few people along my journeys that I thought had all the attributes I would like to see in a president. Strong, responsible, honorable people, always seeming to naturally look out for the needs of others, less fortunate, and weaker than themselves, while at the same time accomplishing great feats of productivity, (including balancing their check books).
Ive met them in all walks of life. All shapes, sizes, sexes, and colors. Proud Americans, all of them. According to our constitution they have the right to run for president. The only question is... how? Well check it out...

A Letter to Michael Moore...

Hey Mike,
I hope all is going good with the new project. I can't express to you how much I appreciate your work. You both inspire me and give me hope that someday we the People will find our voice again and take our country back. On that note, I have a great Idea I’d like to share with you. This is an idea I’ve spent serious time thinking about. I’d like to humbly ask for your help. The idea needs shepherding from someone of your caliber. So here it is…

“The People’s Party”
A reality television game show
by Alan Abbott

Contestants will compete for a chance to run for President of the United States for the People’s Party.

Possible contestants, chosen from the general public, are asked (via television & radio) to send in a video tape or DVD, 3 minutes or less explaining why they or the person they are nominating should be considered as a presidential candidate.

The show will be run Documentary/American Idol style. The cameras follow each contestant on their quest. Throughout the campaign contestants and their entourage travel together, eat together, stay at the same hotels, and share the same campaign headquarters in the convention rooms at the hotels where they stay.

The American public will have the opportunity to vote for the candidate of their choice by telephone and the contestants with the lowest number of votes steps down each week.

The winner of the show wins the candidacy for the Peoples Party, and actually runs for president of the United States of America.

That is the basic idea. I see it as an entertaining way to empower the people to establish their own party, educate the public about what it takes to run for president. Most importantly, it will give the people a chance to take their country back.

I have been developing the show for over a year and have a lot more material. I didn’t want to bombard you with it all right now. I have made several trips to and from L.A. (from Maui) trying to contact you through “more appropriate means” than e-mail, but to no avail. So here we are.

This is actually the second e-mail I have sent you, but I fear the first may have gotten lost in the crowd, as I know you try to respond to all your e-mails. So just to give you a heads up, I am going to ask a few friends to give me a hand in getting your attention. After all, election time is around the corner, and I’d like you to be given the first opportunity to give the country back to the people. Hope you don’t mind. Please feel free to e-mail me or call me at; 808-264-0984. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Alan

We The People
Really can make this happen. More impossible dreams have come true. But we have to work together. Together... the American people can do anything.
I am asking all of you to please copy this entire post and send it to michael@michaelmoore.com then send it to everyone you know.
Michael Moore is my first choice, but I know he is not everybody's cup of tea. If you have someone in mind you like better for the task of producing, directing, and/or hosting The Peoples Party? Copy and send this entire post to them, and tell them so.
But please keep in mind that the show, and everything written here is copywritten so please don't try to pass it off as your own, you'll just get yourself in a lot of trouble. Do however feel free to share with as many people as you want. In fact please do. Post it everywhere!
I sent this letter to Michael Moore on May 19th, 2006 but Mikes a busy guy. He probably hasn't even checked his email yet. He is currently shooting another feature documentary, and I'm sure the shooting schedule is very labor intensive. Not ot mention the amount of e-mails the guy must get every day. Then when he does finaly get a chance to read them, I'm sure he has a priority list of some kind. Either way, he has not returned this e-mail yet.
But Michael is not the only person that is important to reach. If we are going to make a difference we have to work together, and spread the word to everyone.

Thank you all very much.
Sincerely, Alan
Power To The People

michael@michaelmoore.com

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Pro-Cannabis Rally Los Angeles

morgankicksass — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:34:06 GMT

Southern California NORML
Would like to invite you to take part in a peaceful pro-cannabis demonstration on Tax Day,
Saturday April 15, 2006

Location: Hollywood Post Office
1615 Wilcox Ave.
Hollywood, Ca. 90028
12:00 Noon-Midnight
Please bring signs or some will be provided.

Tax And Regulate Cannabis!!!!!

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does eating anything with sugar make your high better?

Ari — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 03:44:07 GMT

ok i always love to eat my munchies when i'm high. most of my food has sugar in it and when i eat it, it makes my high feel more intense. i was figuring that the sugar speeds up the blood stream and shit which helps the thc go through your body faster but i'm not sure if it's true or not. can someone tell me if i'm right or wrong?

ari

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New Time 4 Hemp series - LIVE WebCast - high noon - once a week!

Casper Leitch — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 02:37:01 GMT

The series, Time 4 Hemp, rolls back into production with a 1-hour weekly LIVE WebCast!

This allows for you to IM or call in and speak directly to our guest. Those who have already agreed to be a on the re-launching of the series are:

Allen F. St. Pierre, (Ex. Dir. of NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=5972

Steven Hagar, (Ex. Editor of High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com

Steve Bloom, (Senior Editor at High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/home/

Eric Sterling, (founder of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation);
http://www.cjpf.org

Jack Herer, (Author of 'The Emporer Wears No Clothes');
http://www.jackherer.com/

Ed Rosenthal, (founder of Quick Trading Books);
http://quicktrading.com

Lynette Shaw, (now running for Lt. Gov. of CA. and the writer and singer of the theme song 'Time 4 Hemp');
http://www.revshawrecords.com

Steve Dillion, (Chair - Natl. NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4489

John Birrenbach, (founder of the International Institute For Hemp);
http://www.birrenbach.com/

Keith Stroup, (founder of NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4503

Gatewood Galbraith, (Reform Party Candidate for Governor of Kentucky);
http://www.gatewood.com

Steve Kubby and his wife Michele (hemp activists fighting for their lives in the US Legal System);
http://www.kubby.com/

Dale Gieringer, Ph.D (Vice Chair of NORML and EX. Dir. of CA NORML);
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4490

Rob Robinson, (Ex. Dir. of NY NORML);
http://www.nynorml.org/

Lynn Wilson, (a/k/a - The Happy Hemptress);
http://www.hemprock.com/

Jack Cole, (Founding member and Exc. Dir. of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition)
http://www.leap.cc/who/jackbio.htm

Bruce Mirken, (Director of Communications for the Marijuana Policy Project);
http://www.mpp.org

David Borden, (founder and Ex. Dir. of StoptheDrugWar.org and the Drug Reform Coordination Network);
http://stopthedrugwar.org/aboutdrc/index.shtml

Peter Gorman, (Feature Writer for High Times Magazine);
http://www.hightimes.com/ht/home/

Many more great activists fighting for our freedoms on the front lines in the War On Drugs (as well as a few well-known public figures) have also agreed to be part of this production.

'Time 4 Hemp' is the name of the television series I created in the early 1990's. You can locate the web site at:
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

There you will find the list of guests who appeared on the series when it was first produced includes: Willie Nelson, Tim Leary, Kevin Zeese, and all the founders of the American Hemp Movement.

I am one of 17 people who, in 1991, wrote the California Hemp Initiative (CHI) allowing people who need the use of hemp (slang termed: marijuana) for medical reasons to grow 6 plants or less in their own homes with out fear of prosecution.

The 17 of us who wrote this initiative then recruited an army of volunteers to gather enough signatures to get the CHI onto the voting ballot in 1992. California voters overwhelmingly supported CHI and it became state law shortly there after. I created 'Time 4 Hemp' as a way to bring attention to the CHI.

A copy of the CHI can be reviewed on the web site as can free short video downloads from each interview. You can also freely download the complete audio of each interview should you like. You can also download 4 video clips from my involvement in the Smoked Marijuana Study at UCLA funded by the US government if you have time for a quick chuckle. I am the only person in the world ever to be filmed in a study of that nature.

The 'Time 4 Hemp' weekly WebCast will broadcast LIVE, at High Noon once a week through the internet. Each program will then be edited and archived so anyone wanting to listen to it - at anytime - can do so.

We intend to rock the world (as always) with the message of:
"Hemp for Paper, Fiber, Fuel and Medication".

With that said, I'd like to invite you to listen in and be an ACTIVE AUDIENCE. The whole idea of broadcasting live is to give people around the world the chance to ask questions of each guest. Either through telephone (we'll have an 800 number) or IM.

I'll be posting up-dates about the series through my Time_4_Hemp tribe site.

If you'd like to be notified by e-mail of the first live broadcast, let me know.

You can send me a message through my Time4Hemp.com web sit at: Casper@Time4Hemp.com with the subject line:
I Want 2 Take Time 4 Hemp - NOW!

Please tell your friends about this series. Copy and paste this message anywhere you feel someone might benefit from something one of our remarkable guests has to say.

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp
http://www.Time4Hemp.com

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Free Marijuana Video and Audio downloads found at...

Casper Leitch — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:31:54 GMT

... http://www.Time4Hemp.com There you can locate complete interviews with Willie Nelson, Tim Leary, Jack Herer, Gatewood Galibrath, Steve Bloom, Keith Stroup, Kevin Zeese and all the founders of the hemp movement including Mae Nutt (who spoke before the US Supreme Court on behalf of her son needing medical hemp for his cancer); George McMahonn (a legal medical hemp usere); Dr. Todd Mikuriya; and Dr. John Morgan. Also free to download is a 25-minute video on Medical Hemp and a 7-part audio download on the History of Marijuana. There's even a cell phone web site at http://www.Time4Hemp.com/cell/index.htm . Check the site out and tell your friends!

Keep Strong!
Casper Leitch
Creator/Host: Time 4 Hemp

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Hemp For livity Part 1

MeltingPoint — Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:52:17 GMT

I was first turned onto the wonders of hemp, the same way most of the people my age were turned on. Thru jack herer's wonderful book, the Emperor. It was 92 , and we figured we had found a way to truly save our planet.... or in the least the province we all lived in. Manitoba is in the centre of the prairies and located in the middle of canada. With literaly millions of growable acres's thruout the praires, it is the obvious choice for canadians to plant their hemp.Within a few years of learning all we could about hemp/cannabis we put together a plan to make things happen. we wanted to not simply around puffing joints and dreaming about what could be, we decided to make our dreams reality> By choosing students from the University of manitoba to join our newly created group, THE MANITOBA HEMP ALLIANCE, we had the straight faces that the system seemed to love so much> keep in mind, we were a bunch of long haired freaks who realy just loved sitting around and puffing on jah herb. This was not the face we could show our government while asking permision to grow a plant that had not been planted legaly in over 73 years in our country.
With the help of the manitoba hemp alliance we managed to associate ourselves with one jack moes' who was working at the time with the federal government. It was his name that we would ship our hemp seed from the UKraine. (Rewind a few years to the cannabis cup in amsterdam 93 where we met an american by the name of john> He was living in the ukraine and trying to get this hemp movement going. As in the ukraine they never stopped growing it all these years, so they had strains available that could grow in our province. Ukraine and manitoba have very similiar temperments thruout the year. John was in amsterdam at the cup hoping on hooking up with hempminded people. He was a bit surprised to see it was realy mostly a cannabis party and there was very little about hemp. however us meeting up was exactly what he was hoping for.) we had a small hemp store in manitoba at the time, winnipeg to be precise, and we were realy hooked on seperating the two, ie cannabis for smoking and hemp for growing. This was a strategy we figured would make it that much easier for us to get this plant growing on our soil. With jack's book the emperor, quoting from a popolar mechanics article from the thirties, calling hemp the billion dollar crop. Keep in mind this was the first time billion and dollar were ever used in an aconomic statement. This was huge. So we approached our government will all we knew about hemp and its possibillities in todays market place. WE called our proposal the TRILLION DOLLAR CROP,and we proposed it to our ministre of agriculture Harry Ens. Well to make a long story short, we managed in just over 9 months, to get our application thru to ottawa for approval, and grew our first organic hemp fields in 95. One year after joe stroble, the tobacco farmer and jeff kime grew canada's first hemp field in over 73 years. It was thru those two gentlenmen that we were able to discover the phytoremidiation properties of hemp. As joe was a tobacco farmer, his fields were actively sprayed with radium 226, a radioactive nucleaotide that is used not only to combat insects, but realy used to raise nicotene levels of the plant on the field. After several years of growing the hemp on this field, they noticed their radioactivity levels dropping. This was the birth of the chernobyle phytoremidiation program that was started in 97 by CGP, consolodated growers and processors. A company that was basicaly started out of the work we did in the early years in manitoba. It was thru this company that i first saw hemp metal, which is stronger than titanium, and lighter than aluminum>
This company however turned out to be a sham, as the women who was behind it, was extremly slick, she did all she could to milk our community of millions of dollars we didnt even know we had. However many years later, several companies have continued on thru the work we did back in the early nineties in manitoba. INcluding freshhemp foods www.emperor.com > selling high quality seed , oil, and dehulled seed for eating and food purpose.
I will continue with our story in the near future.
Hope this small historical for our little scene is inspiring to those out there, that want to change things, but don't believe they can' truly make any great change. It only takes a group of people who truly believe, and you can make great things happen. I would have never believed that within a year, of us starting this, we would be standing in our very own hemp stand.
Give thanks to the Plant and all its wonderful uses.

Marc

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