215 ten year BLOWOUT

[Guest]

Everytime I see this it killz me ......I really want to go to this and meet Dr.Todd and others.....

 

[all messed up]

plane tickets cost less than an oz of weed. Get a ticket and go. Where are you?

 

[Guest]

Hmm...I know I could not afford a plane ticket but maybe I could drive...


There are a few other obsticles that I need to take care of before I could make it...I am going to look into it!

 

[all messed up]

Just do it.

 

[Babbabud]

How soon is this happening. I tried to come down that way one time and the mrs and I meet some of you guys but our wires got crossed i guess. I still have a few outdoor girls I cant leave yet ... what are the dates for this ??

 

[mars2112]

what are the dates for this ??

Prop 215 Tenth Anniversary Celebration

Sat. Nov 4th* 2006 7- 10 PM. - San Francisco

with Dennis Peron, Tod Mikuriya, Dale Gieringer & friends
Free Entertainment & Food at the San Francisco Gay Community Center
1800 Market St. @ Octavia

Contact: Wayne Justmann (415) 441-3859

Join us in celebrating the tenth year of California's Compassionate Use Act with the original crew who helped bring it about it, thanks to your and the voters' support for Californians' right to medicine.

(If you can't make it to SF but are in Sonoma that night, check out the SAMM Harvest Dance at the Sebastopol Community Center, 7pm - midnite)
*Technically, Prop. 215 was approved on Nov. 5th, 1996, becoming law that midnight
California NORML (415) 563-5858 // [email protected]
2215-R Market St. #278, San Francisco CA 94114

 

[all messed up]

Prop 215 Tenth Anniversary Celebration
Sat. Nov 4th* 2006 7- 10 PM. - San Francisco
with Dennis Peron, Tod Mikuriya, Dale Gieringer & friends
Free Entertainment & Food
at the San Francisco Gay Community Center
1800 Market St. @ Octavia
Contact: Wayne Justmann (415) 441-3859
Join us in celebrating the tenth year of California's Compassionate Use Act with the original crew who helped bring it about it, thanks to your and the voters' support for Californians' right to medicine.
(If you can't make it to SF but are in Sonoma that night, check out the SAMM Harvest Dance at the Sebastopol Community Center, 7pm - midnite)
*Technically, Prop. 215 was approved on Nov. 5th, 1996, becoming law that midnight
California NORML (415) 563-5858 // [email protected]
2215-R Market St. #278, San Francisco CA 94114

 

[Guest]

Make sure you people show up, it's important!!!! and will be fun, hopin on the train to be in the area tommarow and guna be there for sure.

 

[all messed up]

ICmag'ers should were their name tags.

 

[Guest]

ARGH!!!! This is going to be one not to miss....I am really trying to get up there....And I think It might actually happen......CAMPING IN THE PARK WOO HOO! hahahaha

 

[geezeressa]

double ARRGH!
I'm going to miss another great party. I'll be sitting in Davies Symphony Hall, Listening to Mahler's 4th Symph. Can't get out of it....any chance the party will go late? Mahler should be done around 10:30...Davies is right near there.

Maybe I can come for an half hour before the concert starts....

 

[all messed up]

Dennis parties always go late. Always.

 

[mars2112]

map/directions

http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=1800+Market+Street,+San+Francisco,+CA

http://www.sfcenter.org/

 

[mars2112]

10th Anniversary of Prop. 215

Celebration at SF Gay Community Center, Nov. 4th. 7-10 pm; more events in Sonoma Co., Santa Barbara

This weekend marks the tenth anniversary of California's landmark medical marijuana initiative, Prop. 215, approved by 56% of the voters on Nov. 5th, 1996 (the same day marks the 15th anniversary of the nation's first medical marijuana initiative, San Francisco's Prop P). The past decade has seen remarkable progress in cannabis medicine both in California and worldwide. While opposition from the federal government has frustrated 215's stated goal of implementing a fully legal, "safe and affordable" distribution system, a growing network of dispensaries, clinics, and patients groups have made medical marijuana increasingly available to Californians.....
(Full text at http://www.canorml.org/news/10thAnniversaryProp215.htm)
.... After 10 years, the shockwave of Prop. 215 is still spreading. It remains to be seen how far it will go before the federal ban on medical marijuana is finally lifted. If marijuana is eventually made available in licensed pharmacies like other prescription pharmaceuticals, the dispensaries and clubs may become obsolete. On the other hand, the dispensaries may well prove to be a stepping stone to a wider regime of legal adult access.
Given its uncommon pharmaceutical safety, a strong case can be made for making marijuana available as an over-the-counter drug for all adults. This November 7th, three California cities - Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, and Santa Monica - will be voting on initiatives like Oakland's Measure Z, aimed at eliminating penalties against adult use of cannabis. In addition, two states, Nevada and Colorado, will be voting on proposals to legalize adult marijuana use entirely. Ten years after Prop 215, a second marijuana reform shockwave may be in the making.

- Dale Gieringer, co-sponsor, Prop. 215 & Oakland Measure Z

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On Saturday, November 4th, there will be a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Prop. 215 at the San Francisco Gay Community Center, 1800 Market St, from 7 pm to 10 pm, with Prop. 215 author Dennis Peron and other sponsors, including: Terence Hallinan, Dale Gieringer, and Dr. Tod Mikuriya. Free entertainment & refreshments.

November 4th also marks the Sonoma Alliance for Medical Marijuana's 8th Annual Cannabis Harvest Dance at the Sebastopol Community Center from 7 pm to midnight. Tickets $20 at the door.

November 4th is also the date of the 8th Annual Santa Barbara Hemp Festival in Isla Vista at Anisq'oyo' Park (Embarcadero del Mar) 10 am to 5 pm.

VOTE FOR CHANGE NOVEMBER 7th - California Election Guide on Marijuana and Drug Reform issues http://drugsense.org/dpfca/ElectionGuide2006_11.pdf

Medical pot advocates celebrate Prop. 215

by Heather Cassell
Published 11/02/2006
The Bay Area Reporter Online

Serving the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities since 1971
Issue: Vol. 36 / No. 44 / 2 November 2006

http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1298

Dennis Peron, shown being greeted by David Nash at his birthday party in
April 2000, will be on hand at this weekend's 10-year anniversary of the
passage of Proposition 215. Photo: Rick Gerharter

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of Proposition 215,
the Compassionate Care Act, which received 56 percent of California
voters' support in 1996. Since that time, 10 other states have passed
similar laws, and support for medical cannabis is growing, according to
a report by the Marijuana Policy Project.

The report, "Proposition 215: Ten Years Later," finds that legalization
of medical marijuana is overwhelmingly supported by the public, but
continues to face significant opposition from the federal government,
despite the fact that 11 states, including California, passed medical
marijuana legislation during the last decade. South Dakota has an
initiative on the November ballot and if passed will make it the 12th
state to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.

"It's a kind of bittersweet anniversary," said Supervisor Tom Ammiano,
who is working on legislation that will be presented to the board's city
operations committee on November 6 to make possession of medical
marijuana a low priority for arrests in San Francisco. "We still
encounter 10 years later the same blind prejudice."

"There's been a lack of leadership from our California elected officials
on this," said Bruce Mirken, director of communications of the Marijuana
Policy Project. "[Senator Dianne] Feinstein was actively opposed and
sort of has moved to neutral over the years. [Senator Barbara] Boxer,
despite pleas from patients, has been continually missing in action, not
overtly working against it, but not being helpful with our ongoing
problems with the feds."

Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) is the only elected
official in Congress who consistently supports marijuana laws for
medical use and the protection of patients. She has defended Proposition
215 and other legislation supporting medical marijuana as well as
patient rights to safely acquire and possess marijuana on the House
floor on four separate occasions.

Dennis Peron, who wrote Proposition 215 as a eulogy for his deceased
partner, Jonathan, and for patients suffering from life-threatening
diseases who use marijuana for medical purposes, said that after 10
years, "A lot of people are getting medical marijuana and are not going
to jail. I wrote it so sick people wouldn't have to be hassled, go to
jail and have to hire lawyers when they're ill."

"It's made it possible for sick people to obtain relief better than they
used to. They haven't had to be paranoid about being arrested. They
don't have to go to the park to buy marijuana any longer; they can go to
a safe dispensary," stated Terence Hallinan, former district attorney.

Despite the legal status of Proposition 215 in California, using
marijuana for medical purposes remains in a complex paradigm between
federal, state, and local laws depending mostly on law enforcement
attitudes toward cannabis. Patients are often caught in the middle.

In an attempt to assist law enforcement with identifying valid patients
of medical marijuana, California developed the Medical Marijuana Program
to issue identification cards to patients who have proper prescriptions
for medical cannabis. In January, San Francisco implemented the state
program through the Department of Public Health at San Francisco General
Hospital. Since January, 2,500 cards have been issued. Prior to that,
the city had its own medical marijuana ID card, which has now been
incorporated into the state program.

According to Dr. Joshua Bamberger, medical director of the health
department's Housing and Urban Health program and adviser to the state,
"The main objective of the card program is to identify medical marijuana
users to peace officers, police departments, sheriffs, and so forth so
if someone is carrying marijuana for medical purposes the police might
be less likely to arrest them for possession," he said.

He added that law enforcement officials, however, may make their own
determination whether to arrest someone. Right now, he added, he
believes the program is working well in San Francisco.

While some activists are surprised that 10 years later with increased
public support and scientific knowledge about the benefits of medical
marijuana more progress hasn't been made, Peron isn't. "I'm not
surprised that it has taken this long, but I'm also optimistic that it
will happen and I know it will happen in my lifetime."

To celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Proposition 215, a party is
being held on Saturday, November 4, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the LGBT
Community Center, 1800 Market Street in San Francisco. For more
information contact Wayne Justmann at (415) 441-3859.

 

[all messed up]

Be there or be square.

 

[mars2112]

Hello all,

I am a med patient and I have to say that the bolded statement above begs the question of the legitimacy of medical mj.

After all, people do not get together for a trippy night of crestor taking or prozac.

I am not trying to be an ass- it just smacks in the face of common sense.

minds_I

in all fairness, the party mmm mentioned and the one tonight is celebrating a landmark law being passed by the voters of CA. it's not necessarily getting together for medicine taking. it's celebrating the progress we've made despite the drug war and looking at the challenges ahead. it's a social movement. and like all social movements, it's necessary to celebrate landmarks and like karmical said so well, to remember those we lost. and to thank the leaders and heros of our community. i understand your points minds_I but it's not the reason for tonight's gathering. it's more than that.

peace

 

[all messed up]

Wow what a party. It was a huge party with literally everyone in the movement. Fun was had by all. Thanks to Dennis and Wayne and Mark and Chris and Dale and many others for a truly memorable evening.

 

[Guest]

Saw and said hello to Dennis, and Wayne, looked to be a good mix of people there, hope everyone enjoyed tokin on the porch, saw some a few tokers with there vapes, and the entertainment was interesting

 

[all messed up]

Now that I've had a night to think about it, the best part of this party was the SF Police officer acting as security at the door.

Only in San Francisco. God bless that city.

 

[Guest]

God bless that city.