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	<title>Union of Medical Marijuana Patients</title>
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	<description>Protecting Patient and Caregiver Rights</description>
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		<title>James Shaw Provides Alternatives to LA City Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Get Silverlight to see video Our point in providing two example motions of alternatives that allow the City to regulate as if the Pack decision were published citable law is that it allows us to highlight the matter that our City Attorney is not accurate when he proclaims to City Council that he has received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Los Angeles City Council Should Examine Ban Alternatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar announced the day before Thanksgiving a motion to ban medical cannabis dispensaries (with the support of the City Attorney), the Union has been meeting with Council staff to discuss the problems dispensaries were allegedly causing and ways to remedy these. It is true that there have been some bad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abatement with Current Regulation and Powers &#8211; Draft Motion for Los Angeles City Coucil</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commencing in 2005, more than 850 medical marijuana collectives opened storefront dispensaries and cultivation locations in the City by 2009, claiming protection under the Compassionate Use Act (CUA) and the Medical Marijuana Program Act (MMP), according to L.A. Police Department Chief Charlie Beck. The City’s efforts at regulating and limiting the numbers of these medical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: “SOFT BAN” With Abeyance &#8211; Draft Motion For Los Angeles City Council</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why a Ban on Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles is a Bad Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily News editorial Jan. 15 called for a ban on medical marijuana dispensaries in the City of Los Angeles, based on arguments put forth by the City Attorney’s office. The Union of Medical Marijuana Patients warned the City Council two years ago that the City Attorney had provided fatally-flawed advice on the then-new ordinance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dirty Dozen Myths about Medical Marijuana Associations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 02:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great debate that has raged in our city about the regulation of medical marijuana collectives (we refer to them as medical marijuana patient associations, or “PAs”), has been heavy on speculation, rhetoric and assumptions and light on facts.  The confusion has only grown with the recent Second District decision in Pack v. City of Long Beach. Here are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help Stop Government from Issuing Exclusive License for Medical Cannabis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 23:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you well know, our federal government maintains that marijuana has “no currently accepted medical use” as a schedule I substance per the Controlled Substance Act. Although sixteen states and the District of Columbia have now passed medical marijuana legislation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to enforce federal law and prosecute those who cultivate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DHHS Plans to Award Exclusive Rights to Apply Marijuana as a Medical Therapeutic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES, CA – Dec. 15, 2011&#8211;The Union of Medical Marijuana Patients has just discovered that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is about to award an exclusive license to KannaLife Sciences, Inc. of New York to develop medical therapeutics based on the chemistry of cannabis. According to the notice in the Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Shaw Speaks to LA City Council &#8211; Dec 7th 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>An Alternative to Proposed Ban on Patient Dispensaries in Los Angeles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press Conference outside City Council Chamber Wednesday 12/7 9:30 am Tuesday, December 7, 2011—Los Angeles&#8211;James Shaw, director of the Union of Medical Marijuana Patients based in Los Angeles, today announced an alternative to the ban on the nearly 400 local medical cannabis patient associations and their dispensaries, which was proposed by Councilman Jose Huizar on [...]]]></description>
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