CannabisPatientVoice: kearns announces 5 panelists at la-weho med cannabis townhall 8-30

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

kearns announces 5 panelists at la-weho med cannabis townhall 8-30

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FOR MORE INFORMATION

please contact:

Richard Kearns

Poet-Secretary,

Patient Advocacy Network (PAN)

310-488-1328 (cell)

rk@aids-write.org

http://aids-write.org

http://cannabispatientvoice.com

Kearns announcs 5 panelists at la-weho medical cannabis townhall meeting 8-30

Five panelists will offer background briefings for dicussion at the Los Angeles-West Hollywood Medical Cannabis Townhall Meeting Thursday night, August 30, 2007 at Plummer Park, according to AIDS activist and medical cannabis advocate Richard Kearns, poet-secretary of the Patient Advocacy Network (PAN) and the evening’s moderator. Speakers include:

William S. Kroger Jr., Attorney at Law
Joanna LaForce, R.Ph., CGP, chief pharmacist at the “farmacy”™
Dale Prokupek, MD (HIV care, gastroenterology)
Andrea Apodaca, Americans for Safe Access staffer on-site during the July 25 DEA raid at CPG
Degé Coutee, madam president of PAN, a grassroots LA-area medical cannabis educational & public benefit nonprofit corporation

“This is a place to catch up on the roller coaster ride of recent events the southland medical cannabis community has experienced,” said Kearns .”For eleven years, voters in California, whether they are patients or not, already understand medical cannabis saves lives. We also want our stakeholding allies to be informed about our continuing efforts in the arena of social justice. We want to expose the DEA raids as stigma-generated, inspired by poltical appearances rather than public good, and fit them in with the long history of conflict between state and local government over social change. We want to discuss how we propose cannabis be de-regulated. We want our fellow stakeholders to understand that this issue is linked with an across-the-boards struggle over ideology vs. science as a guide in public policy decisionmaking.”

All members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting and contribute to the dialog, which begins at 6:30pm. Free potluck dinner and gelato tasting begin at 6:00pm.

LA-WEHO TOWNHALL MEETING: MEDICAL CANNABIS UPDATE, Thursday night, August 30, 2007 at Plummer Park Community Center, rooms 5-6, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA 90046. For more information, please contact Richard Kearns at rk@aids-write.org, or call 310-488-1328.