Just yesterday the attorney general of California has announced that local and state law enforcement must follow state law regarding medical cannabis. That includes both personal use and the existence of co-ops. HOORAY!

http://www.safeaccessnow.org/downloads/AG_Guidelines.pdf

AB 2279 has now been passed in both California houses. The bill will bar employers from using someone’s medical marijuana status against them for employment purposes. It will actually allow people to sue if they are discriminated against for that reason. WOO-HOO! Let’s all write to governor ahnold and let him know how we feel about this!

Mickey Martin/Jessica Sanders of Tainted sentencing. The best chocolates in the world! Owners are being sentenced for including cannabis in their chocolates.

1301 Clay St., Oakland CA (Judge Wilken’s Courtroom) , from Sep 03, 2008 02:30 PM to Sep 03, 2008 03:30 PM

Please join us in our moment of fate comes to a head and we are sentenced for our actions in providing safe and effective non-smoked medical cannabis to the sick and dying in California. Your support is greatly appreciated.

http://www.freetainted.com/events

As a result of the federal government’s ongoing crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in the City of Santa Barbara, cannabis supporters have organized a march for noon on 8/27. Organizer Mark Russell, who founded the clothing brand I Am Not a Criminal, invites supporters of medical marijuana and state rights to travel from the dolphin statue at the bottom of State Street up to the County Courthouse’s Sunken Gardens.

http://www.independent.com/news/2008/aug/21/law-and-disorder-8-21/ (about halfway down the page)

OCTOBER 6!

Medical cannabis patients and marijuana users are asked NOT to go to work, school, or any normal daily activities such as doctor’s appointments, therapy sessions, grocery shopping, gas pumping, etc.

We will show this nation that we do not work without our medicine and nation does NOT work without us. Cannabis is a Medicine.

Again, that is Monday, October 6, 2008.

Charles Lynch, a former Morro Bay medical cannabis dispensary owner was convicted of 5 counts of CANNABIS-ONLY charges and faces 25-100 years in Federal prison even though he was an honest business man and followed city, county, and State laws. His sentencing is Monday Oct 6 at 8pm at the Federal Courthouse located at 312 N Spring St Los Angeles, CA Courtroom 10.

If you can NOT make it to LA that day, makes it to a protest near you and LET OUR VOICE BE HEARD. “Free Charles Lynch”

Stay tuned for more.

Important Links:

A Touch Blog Post by an ASA Legal advisor:
http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=137#comment-1737

Friends of Charles Lynch Website:
http://www.friendsofccl.com/index.html

Facebook event:
http://www.new.facebook.com/share.php?u … 2715700808

Facebook Group “FREE CHARLES LYNCH”:
http://www.new.facebook.com/share.php?u … 9021484937

LA TImes Articles:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me … 6054.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me … 2714.story

ReasonTV:
http://www.friendsofccl.com/2008-06-11_reasontv.htm
http://www.reason.com/blog/show/127940. … 1#lastpost

I would like to provide a hub for people on the southern california coast who want to get involved with cannabis activism.