Two very important bills to be considered by legislation. All federal involvement in Medical Marijuana cases should end! This means, no fear and false imprisonment for those who are legally entitled to use Marijuana as medicine. These two bills do just that. Safe access to get your medication, and no false imprisonment and trails. This information was obtained by http://www.safeaccessnow.org/. I just thought most of Strain Review readers would like to read.

Next week, the California Senate will vote on two pieces of medical marijuana legislation. The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on AB 2279, which would protect the rights of hundreds of thousands of medical marijuana patients in California from employment discrimination. Introduced by Assembly member Mark Leno and sponsored by ASA, AB 2279 passed through the Assembly last month and, if passed by this committee, will soon head to the full Senate for a vote.

SJR 20, introduced by Senator Carole Migden, could be voted on by the full Senate as early as next week. This resolution urges the President and Congress of the United States to enact legislation requiring federal law enforcement to respect state medical marijuana laws, to cease raids of medical marijuana dispensaries that are operating legally under California and local law, and to return any assets seized from medical marijuana dispensaries and collectives to the states in which they are located. After clearing the Senate Health Committee, SJR 20 was slated to be heard in the Judiciary Committee, but the committee instead passed it straight to the Senate floor.
For more information on AB 2279 and SJR 20, please visit www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/CA2008Bills

Puerto Rico is thinking of new change. The main concern for the legalization of marijuana is to free the prisons which is overflowing with Marijuana charges. About 24 percent of the island’s 13,500 inmates have been convicted on drug charges, and an estimated 80 percent of crimes are drug-related, according to the Department of Corrections.

“The fight against drugs, using punishment, has not worked,” said Jos Manuel Saldaa, former president of the University of Puerto Rico. “This is a social reality.” People should not go to jail for smoking pot, he said. Too many young adults become criminals in prison and also risk contracting hepatitis and AIDS while there, Saldaa and Vzquez said.

The states can learn a lot from Puerto rico, The drug war is just to costly with almost no result. The question remains: Are we winning the war on drugs? Read the full story Here with details!

As an annual ritual by the White House, Marijuana is being brought down. “Weed is getting more potent, which means more deadlier!” Marijuana getting more potent? Where is this space weed the white house speaks of? Many doctors say that if marijuana were to get “more potent”, smokers would smoke less! It is rather a joke now; than the proposed dangerous and fearful tone.

“One had to read six paragraphs into the story to get the first hint of a dissenting view, voiced by Dr. Mitch Earleywine, author of the book, Understanding Marijuana. Earleywine, a substance abuse researcher and psychology professor at the Albany campus of the State University of New York, noted that marijuana smokers simply smoke (more…)

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) Authorities have dropped charges against a school psychologist who was arrested on marijuana and child endangerment charges.
Cynthia Anne Norris, 33, and Alexander Balestrero, 30, were arrested in January after officers reportedly found 93 marijuana plants growing in the couple’s Christmas Valley home.
Norris, a psychologist with the Lake Tahoe Unified School District, said she was aware of Balestrero’s growing operation but believed it was legal under California’s medical marijuana laws. (more…)

This is a great article i found, that i think strainreview subscribers should read.

In the last column, I criticized the strict parenting techniques the RCMP suggested at a DARE presentation as being unrealistic. But even more off target were the opinions about substance abuse at SRHS. First off, to the parents and administrators that were shocked at the actual amount of substance abuse going on, I have to say, “Get your heads out of the sand.” As for the statistics and views presented, I felt they were very misleading and biased towards one vice in particular while letting others off the hook. (more…)

Forwarding an announcement from the ASA list about US House Judiciary Committee Chairman Conyers letter to Acting DEA Administrator Leonhart sent this afternoon!
The letter demands that she answer questions about the agency’s ongoing interference and intimidation in California before July 1. This letter brings us one step closer to Congressional hearings on DEA activity in California, and represents a tremendous success for medical cannabis providers on the federal level. It is our hope that these hearings will make further DEA interference politically unpalatable for the Justice Department, while putting more fuel on the fire for Congressional action on medical cannabis.

Chairman Conyers’ letter is not likely to make national news, but it is an important turning point in this broadest and most protracted DEA attack on patients’ access. What happens next depends on how effective we can be. Please have a look at the action alert in the “May Action Alert” folder in the files section of the yahoo Group to find out if you live or work in one of the six strategic districts represented by a California Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. Chairman Conyers needs there support, and they need to hear from us!

Hello Strain Review subscribers, we have been a little busy with personal business; we will have a big surprise for everyone soon. We’re back and will continue to post! Sorry for the down time people!

Lets keep the Medical marijuana strain reviews coming, and all the great stories!

Thanks again!
Strain Review team.

This is a petition that makes sense, but as we all know, most of these don’t make it. Its just great facts and sources for everyone. Check it out! To read the full petition go here

To: U.S. Congress
Just The Facts is an organization that I started to provide a factual insight to the general public on this most controversial subject. I will provide nothing but the facts, so that we the people can make intelligent decisions about a subject the government clouds up with untruthfulness. Please read my petition and even though you might not smoke Cannabis, please observe with an open mind about all the beneficial qualities that have nothing to do with smoking, but are currently still as illegal.

FACT

· Deaths per year resulting from alcohol: 100,000
· Deaths per year resulting from tobacco: 430,000
· Deaths per year resulting from aspirin: 180- 1000
· Deaths per year resulting from legal drugs: 106,000
· Deaths that have ever occurred in direct result of Cannabis: 0 (that’s right zero) (more…)

Timothy Garon who was a 56 year old musician, was denied a organ transplant because of his medical marijuana use to treat the symptoms of advanced hepatitis C, nausea, abdominal pain and to stimulate his appetite. Garon died Thursday, one week after he got the news from his doctor that a University of Washington Medical Center committee had again denied him a spot on the liver-transplant list.

“He said I’m going to die, with such conviction,” Garon said then. “I’m not angry, I’m not mad, I’m just confused.”

Should pot use with a doctor’s authorization be held against a dying patient who needs an organ transplant? Read More

Alabama’s medical marijuana bill, known as the Michael Phillips Compassionate Care Act has finally been assigned a number for this legislative session.HB679 has been assigned to the judiciary committee again this year and is currently pending committee action in the house of origin.

House Bill 679 will help to ensure that medical marijuana patients in Alabama will no longer have to fear arrest or prosecution from state law enforcement. As introduced, this act would allow qualified patients under a physician’s supervision to possess up to 12 cannabis plants and/or 2.5 ounces of medical marijuana for therapeutic purposes.  However, this proposal will only receive serious consideration if your elected officials hear an unmistakable message of support from their constituents.

The legislature is in recess next week for spring break so this bill won’t come up until at least week after next.

Currently, twelve states — Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington — have enacted laws protecting medical marijuana patients from state prosecution. Patients in these twelve states enjoy legal protections to use medicinal marijuana under a doctor’s supervision; seriously ill citizens in Alabama deserve this same protection.

Support medical marijauana for this state. Take a few minutes of your time and  contact your state House member and tell him or her to support medical marijuana. Click Here