By Kay Steiger | rawstory.com
Medical marijuana activists gathered at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Saturday to talk about resistance to federal law. It’s clear that these activists view themselves as performing civil disobedience, risking jail time, legal fees and stigma. One activist and medical marijuana dispensary worker even compared the movement to the rebels in “Star Wars,” saying that finding legal weaknesses in the federal case is like “finding the weakness in the Death Star.”
Things are slowly changing, though, said Valerie Corral, director and co-founder of the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana, which was founded in 1993. She described getting interviewed recently by the New York Times style section about the etiquette of smoking marijuana. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/fashion/marijuana-etiquette-sending-out-smoke-signals.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
“This is the mainstreaming of cannabis,” she told the room, prompting laughter.
Andrew DeAngelo, general manager and brother to the proprietor behind the much-beleaguered Harborside Health Center in San Jose, California, noted that his facility has been particularly targeted by the federal government http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/12/feds-move-to-shut-down-west-coasts-largest-medical-marijuana-dispensary/ in its effort to enforce forfeiture law to shut down their dispensary.
If you’d like to discuss medical marijuana, contact Ryan Hurley, director of the Rose Law Group Medical Marijuana Dept., rhurley@roselawgroup.com
