How Are We Ever Going to Clarify Medical Marijuana in California?
Year
2011 - Los Angeles, CA
Speakers
Facilitator: Dale Gieringer, State Director, California NORML, Berkeley, CA
Tom Ammiano, California State Assembly, San Francisco, CA
Lanette Davies, Director, Crusaders for Patients' Rights, Sacramento, CA
Don Duncan, California Director, Americans for Safe Access, Oakland, CA
George Mull, California Cannabis Association, Sacramento, CA
Chris Norby, California State Assembly, Orange, CA
Cynara Velazquez, Patient Care Association, San Diego, CA
Proposition 215 gave Californians the right to possess and grow marijuana for medical use, but failed to establish a legal distribution system. Instead, it encouraged the federal and state government to “implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need.” This mandate has been sorely neglected, resulting in hundreds of lawsuits, raids and arrests. What needs to happen next?