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Breaking News...Capitol Hill Energy Fest ....Today...Free....Attention ColoradoansBreaking News
 Come to the Capitol Hill Energy Fest (CHEnergy Fest) Saturday October 24
The Capitol Hill Green Team invites residents to the CHEnergy Fest Saturday, October 24 from 10 am to 2 pm at the CHUN Community Center, 1290 Williams Street (north end of Cheesman Park). Come enjoy free food and live music, and learn how to save money and reduce energy consumption at home. Residents can sign up for a free street tree, free curb-side recycling, a low-cost home energy audit, and Xcel's Windsource program, which allows residents to purchase wind energy for their homes. Free home energy audits, weatherization and energy upgrades are available to some households, depending on income. Significant rebates are available to everyone. The event coincides with the 350.org International Day of Climate Action. 350 refers to 350 parts per million (ppm) of greenhouse gasses in the Earth's atmosphere. Scientists say that 350 is the maximum safe level to prevent climate change disasters. Human impacts have already raised levels to over 390 ppm. The City of Denver has a Climate Action Agenda with a goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 10 percent by 2012. We can do our part for Denver to help reach that goal, plus improve the quality of life for everyone. CHEnergy Fest sponsors include Greenprint Denver, Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods (CHUN) and Capitol Hill United Ministries (CHUM). For more information and to RSVP for the event, visit http://www.350.org/CHEnergyFest Marijuana Policy Project Alert - Farr Bill/Medical Marijuana
October 22,2009 Dear Wayward Bill & Others, Following the enormous victory for medical marijuana patients and their caregivers on Monday, a strong MPP champion on Capitol Hill, Congressman Sam Farr (D-Calif.), plans to introduce an important bill in Congress next week. While the new Department of Justice policy creates a de facto protection for patients and caregivers who are "in clear and unambiguous compliance with existing state laws providing for the medical use of marijuana," the Farr bill — which MPP staff helped write years ago — will codify this protection in law. It will also address another injustice: Currently, medical marijuana patients in the 13 states where medical marijuana is legal are barred from telling federal jurors that their use of marijuana was for medical purposes, even when state laws explicitly permit medical use. Congressman Farr's Truth in Trials Act would guarantee defendants in federal medical marijuana cases the right to explain that their marijuana was for medical use. And more importantly, defendants could be found not guilty if the jury finds that they followed state medical marijuana laws. This is such an exciting time for our issue. Thank you for standing with us in the fight. Cannabis Therapy Institute - Always Buy Colorado Cannabis Pledge Sign the Always Buy Colorado Cannabis Pledge: http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/  Click here to see photos and comments: http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/10/medical-marijuana_dispensaries.php Westword Denver News Blog Medical-marijuana advocates fight Mexican drug cartel reports with the Always Buy Colorado Cannabis pledge By Michael Roberts Wed., Oct. 21 2009 Opponents of medical-marijuana laws like Colorado Attorney General John Suthers are increasingly playing the crime card -- implying that the proliferation of dispensaries in Colorado is fueling illegal and increasingly dangerous behavior (without, of course, providing specific examples of the phenomenon). Today's Denver Post adds a chorus to this tune via an article suggesting that demand for ganja has grown so fast that suppliers are having to turn to Mexican drug cartels to restock. That's nonsense, says Laura Kriho, PR coordinator for the pot-advocacy organization Cannabis Therapy Institute. Last night, Kriho attended a Louisville city council meeting at which a moratorium on new dispensaries in town was put in place until May 15; she says the original idea was to freeze things for six months, but since the new date would have been (ahem) 4-20, officials decided to bump up the date another few weeks. Before and after the session, she chatted with numerous medical-marijuana providers and patients who say they haven't seen Mexican marijuana at dispensaries, or anywhere else, in ages. Still, in an attempt to undermine what Kriho sees as scare tactics, CTI is encouraging caregivers to take a new pledge -- to Always Buy Colorado cannabis. According to Kriho, Mexican cannabis is a snap to identify. "They compress it into large bricks," she says. "You can tell the difference immediately." Moreover, she argues that alleged shortages are fictional. "I just talked to a dispensary owner in Nederland, and he said there's actually a surplus at this point. It's harvest season, and everybody's harvested their outdoor crop. He said he's had people coming in to try to sell him locally grown cannabis." Given this evidence, Kriho believes "the attorney general and the DEA are working off the fear factor, trying to make the public afraid of problems that don't even exist at this point. These stories are just being put out to make people afraid, and they really smack of reefer madness from the '20s and '30s. Back then, they took the second or third most widely prescribed medicine at the turn of the century, cannabis, plastered a new name on it -- marijuana -- and made it seem like a drug Mexicans were using before raping white women. And again, they're blaming it on Mexicans. I think it's racist for them to do that now just like it was back then." The Post piece states that most dispensaries have been getting their product from large outdoor grows like one near Chatfield Reservoir at which 14,000 plants were eradicated. Kriho isn't buying these assertions, either. "I've seen pictures of some of the plants found in Pike National Forest and you can tell just by looking at it that it's wild-grown ditch weed with no medicinal value whatsoever." She's just as doubtful about assertions of other medical-marijuana-related crime: "I called the attorney general's office about that and asked for any statistics they had, and they said they didn't have any. They said it was 'anecdotal evidence,' which I guess makes good headlines -- but the public is going to see through that pretty quick." To assist in this process, CTI has come up with the Always Buy Colorado Cannabis campaign -- a twist on Always Buy Colorado, which encourages consumers to purchase products from local businesses. The pledge reads: "As a responsible caregiver, I pledge to never knowingly purchase medical cannabis from Mexican drug cartels or any other enterprise that is not legally allowed to supply medicinal cannabis in Colorado. I pledge to Always Buy Colorado Cannabis whenever possible. I pledge to never represent cannabis as Colorado-grown if it is not grown in the state." One more thing: In Kriho's opinion, the best way to undermine Mexican drug cartels is to legalize marijuana for recreational as well as medical use. You knew that was coming, didn't you? SIGN the Always Buy Colorado Cannabis Pledge: http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/ Provided as a Public Service by the: Cannabis Therapy Institute P.O. Box 19084, Boulder, CO 80308 Phone: (641) 715-3900 ext. 70966 Web: www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com Email: info@cannabistherapyinstitute.com Cannabis Therapy Institute - Caregiver For immediate release: October 15, 2009
 Contact: Cannabis Therapy Institute Phone: (641) 715-3900 ext. 70966# Charges Dropped Against Boulder County Medical Marijuana Caregiver {Boulder, CO} -- On Thursday, Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett dropped the charges against 35-year-old pregnant caregiver, Sherri Versfelt of Nederland, CO, who had been scheduled for a jury trial next week. Sherri had been charged with felony marijuana crimes stemming from a raid on her house in July 2008. Sherri was serving as the caregiver for a patient with a debilitating medical condition. Sherri's case was set to go to trial Monday in Boulder District Court. Rob Corry, Sherri's attorney, had a guest commentary printed in Thursday's Boulder Daily Camera that discussed the atrocities of her case. http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13561481 The Cannabis Therapy Institute posted a picture of her on their website on Wednesday night, calling the persecution of the pregnant caregiver a "Witch Hunt" and rallying supporters to her trial. http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/patients/sherri/ The D.A. says that the prospects of bad publicity and public outrage were not the reasons he dropped the charges, but prosecuting a pregnant woman would have arguably been the biggest PR mistake the D.A.'s office had made since the case of Jason Lauve. Jason was the D.A.'s last medical marijuana prosecution, which resulted in a resounding defeat for the D.A. when Jason was acquitted of all charges. Jason participated in most of his trial in a wheelchair and received great sympathy from his jury. A photo of him receiving a hug by one of his jurors was on the front page of the Boulder Daily Camera the next day and photos of him outside the courthouse with 34 ounces of medicine spread across the Internet. http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_13129763 http://www.colorado420.com/news/lauve/ The D.A. was widely criticized for wasting taxpayer resources on the Lauve prosecution. To appease public opinion after Jason's victory, Garnett campaigned in editorials and public meetings to become known as the "the most progressive District Attorney in the state on the issue of medical marijuana." Recently, Garnett pledged to the Boulder County Commissioners that he was going to use "as little of my office's resources in prosecution of marijuana cases as we can." http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_13450163 The Cannabis Therapy Institute is calling the dismissal of Sherri's charges a guarded victory for all Colorado patients. Despite Garnett's assurances that he was not waging a war on patients, the prosecution of Sherri Versfelt continued for over a year and wasted even more thousands of taxpayer dollars. "I hope that Stan Garnett continues to uphold the pledge he made after my acquittal that he wouldn't prosecute any more patients or dispensaries," says Jason Lauve, former medical marijuana defendant. "Sherri's prosecution went on for far too long. I hope that this teaches police and prosecutors to have more respect for patients' Constitutional rights and to keep them out of the court to begin with." Rob Corry is on a string of victories this week with medical marijuana patients. On Tuesday, he liberated almost half a pound of medicinal cannabis from the Colorado Springs Police Department on behalf of his client, patient Stephan Thomas, who had the charges against him dropped as well. See the story and video here: http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/64187497.html *CANNABIS BUSINESS DIRECTORY* GET YOUR FREE LISTING! Provided as a Public Service by the: Cannabis Therapy Institute P.O. Box 19084 Boulder, CO 80308 Phone: (641) 715-3900 ext. 70966# Web: http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com Email: info@cannabistherapyinstitute.com |
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