Festival Season Is Here Your Help Is Necessary!
OPN members and supporters the 2004 outdoor festival season is upon us and we have been making plans to be part of some great community festivals. But, even at this point we still have open spots in our schedule that need to be filled if we want to reach out and educate the public about medical cannabis in Ohio.
We need your input now! What festivals or events in your community would be a good venue for OPN in your area?
As your Director of Development who lives in Columbus, I know what events go on in my hometown. What I don't know is what is happening in your area? What events are happening in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton, Toledo, Youngstown, Mansfield and many other cities and communities around Ohio?
Only with your help will we be able to take our mission to the public across the state. Only with your input will we be able to achieve the unachievable and gain a medical cannabis law in Ohio! We can tailor our presentation to fit almost any situation from conservative to middle of the road to liberal. Our message is one of compassion and common sense not partisan politics.
We need to reach out to patients, caregivers, medical professionals and the concerned public. We need to break through the lies, myths and propaganda that has confused the general public for far too long. We can table almost any event no matter how small or large. Just a few hours, an evening, a day, or a weekend we can be there to inform and enlighten. But this cannot happen without your ideas and suggestions. So please, help us help you, contact me today and help keep OPN growing and make medical cannabis a reality in Ohio!
Buy Your Summer Wear Now!
Has the Spring weather we've been having make you dream of a warm sunny Summer day? Well it's a good time to start shopping for some great items for the warm days to come at our OPN Store http://www.cafeshops.com/OPNStore). We have baseball jerseys, fitted T-shirts (made in the USA!) and different caps with the OPN logos. Before your drinking glasses start sweating and leaving those nasty rings on your table check out our stylish OPN Tile coasters!
Like your coffee hot or your cold drinks cold while on the go? Snag one of our smokin' OPN Stainless Steel Travel Mugs! Part of every purchase helps OPN achieve it's mission and lets you show the world who you support! So help OPN by helping yourself to some Summer panache and you'll be looking too cool to even mind the heat this year!
PRIEST PLEADS GUILTY TO GROWING MARIJUANA
The former pastor of Prince of Peace Catholic Church accused of growing marijuana in the church rectory in Norton pleaded guilty Tuesday.
The Rev. Richard Arko was given a suspended prison sentence and was placed on probation for two years.
GAO GREEN-LIGHTS WHITE HOUSE INTERFERENCE IN ELECTIONS
With two federal watchdog agencies freeing the White House drug czar to overtly influence state ballot initiatives, the Senate is poised to reauthorize this anti-democratic exercise for the next five years - the wheels greased by a ten-year total of $4 billion in taxpayer-funded advertising designed to sway the votes of those who pay for it.
MAKE PEACE WITH POT
Starting in the fall, pharmacies in British Columbia will sell marijuana for medicinal purposes, without a prescription, under a pilot project devised by Canada's national health service. The plan follows a 2002 report by a Canadian Senate committee that found there were "clear, though not definitive" benefits for using marijuana in the treatment of chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and other ailments. Both Prime Minister Paul Martin and Stephen Harper, leader of the opposition conservatives, support the decriminalization of marijuana.
TRANSCRIPT: DR. CLAUDIA JENSEN - CANNABIS FOR ADD
COUNTDOWN is in the home stretch now. Your preview of our No. 1 story, the war on drugs meets the war to get your kids' attention. Just say no to ADD and give your kid pot? A doctor explains next.
HEALING POT WINS A ROUND IN COURT
Adding another puff of hope to the medicinal marijuana movement, a federal judge on Wednesday sided with a Santa Cruz cannabis cooperative, issuing an order allowing pot to be grown for the sick and dying without fear of a raid by federal drug agents.
MEDICAL MARIJUANA INITIATIVE CLEARS EARLY LEGAL HURDLES
HELENA - Advocates for the medical use of marijuana will begin collecting signatures across Montana next week on petitions seeking to place the issue on the November ballot.
Both the secretary of state and the attorney general ruled this week that Montana's marijuana initiative, dubbed Initiative 148, meets legal muster.
GEORGE SOROS: ODD MAN OUT AT THE BILLIONAIRE'S CLUB
Billionaire George Soros is my hero.
I'm not used to looking up to rich people as a rule. You know, getting a camel through the eye of a needle and all. But the 73-year-old retired hedge fund operator who is the 28th richest person in the world, with an estimated worth of $7-billion, is like no other really rich guy I know. Soros has used his fortune to seed democracy around the world.
VERBATIM
DEFENDING MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA
An excerpt from a commentary by Joycelyn Elders, former U.S. surgeon general, on Rhode Island legislation that would allow medical use of marijuana. It appeared March 26 in the Providence Journal.
OAKLAND TO LIMIT MARIJUANA OUTLETS
City Plans to Reduce Seven Medical Pot Vendors to Four
Sunday, April 18, 2004 - OAKLAND -- United by the risk of a federal bust and a zealous conviction that they are helping ill people, medical marijuana purveyors always have maintained a certain level of community, watching each other's back.
BOARDS SCRUTINIZE DOCTORS OVER MEDICAL MARIJUANA
Physicians Say the Investigations Are Politically Motivated.
California physician Philip Denney, MD, figures a complaint will be filed against him someday for recommending medical marijuana to patients.
HEARING ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA
House Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources Holds a Hearing on Marijuana Medicine
HOUSE MAY TIGHTEN RULES ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA
MONTPELIER - Key Democrats in the Vermont House are poised to suggest greater restrictions on medical marijuana use than did their Senate counterparts.
The House Health and Welfare Committee heard a full day of testimony Wednesday from physicians and law enforcement officials. Two Democrats on the committee said a Senate proposal - which would allow marijuana use by people suffering from severe nausea, seizures and severe pain - might be too broad.
MARIJUANA REFORM GROUP WINS BOOTH
The annual 3 Rivers Musical Festival, a four day outdoor event boasting the slogan "Bringing out the BEST in Columbia!" is bringing more to the State's capitol than just musicians this year.
Controversy has been rampant ever since festival organizers initially denied the Columbia chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws ( NORML ) a booth at the festival.
THE MARIJUANA BISHOP?
Three major developments on the medical marijuana front since last week.
In a symbolic vote on the House floor last Wednesday, a tripartisan majority backed an amendment by Prog Rep. David Zuckerman to add medical marijuana to the list of medications that would be studied for "pain management" in "the medical school, residency programs and nursing schools in Vermont."
AN RX REVOLUTION
In Lake Forest, deepest Orange County, smack in the middle of a numbing expanse of gated, landscaped subdivisions and chain store--dotted shopping "plazas," two improbable revolutionaries are practicing medicine in a nondescript, one-story, gray building.
Nothing on the office door but the names Dr. Philip A. Denney and Dr. Robert E. Sullivan. When you've just set up shop as the only physicians for hundreds of miles who specialize in medical recommendations for marijuana use, you don't want to court any more trouble than your mere existence already guarantees.
EX-AIDE GOES TO BAT FOR MEDICAL MARIJUANA
In December 1994, Joycelyn Elders, the U.S. surgeon general, was unceremoniously booted out of her job by President Bill Clinton. The pediatrician and former director of the Arkansas health department had taken controversial stands on a number of issues.
BLINDED BY DRUGS
Last week, the U.S. commission examining the Sept. 11 attacks issued a statement of facts that helps explain why the Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to stop the al-Qaeda plot. Counter-terrorism just wasn't a priority for the FBI, the commission said. Instead, the bureau was too busy fighting the never-ending war on drugs.
USING MARIJUANA AS MEDICINE
Mornings bring the greatest agony.
Those seven or eight hours of sleep most people count on for rejuvenation leave Matthew Mernagh in physical torment.
His thin body stiffens during the idle hours he's in bed.
MEDICAL POT NOT UP TO SNUFF
Activist Says Product Has to Improve
Unless the government learns to grow better dope, a proposal to distribute Health Canada marijuana in pharmacies will go up in smoke, say local medical marijuana advocates.
"They have to improve their product or this project isn't going to go anywhere at all," said Fred Pritchard of Windsor's marijuana compassion club
CRUSADER'S WIFE, SON ARRESTED FOR POT
Medicinal marijuana advocate Grant Krieger's troubles with the law became a family affair with the arrest of his wife and son Wednesday.
Mounties in Saskatchewan arrested Marie and Ryan Krieger following a traffic stop on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Swift Current.
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