OFFICIAL PRESS
RELEASE FROM WAMM
http://www.wamm.org/
Valerie Corral, Director
For Immediate Release
September 12th, 2002 Info contact:
Denis Berry
(831) 566-0325
DenisBerry1@Juno.com
Medical Marijuana at City Hall
In response to the September 5 arrest of
its co-founders and destruction of it’s medical garden, WAMM(Wo/Men’s
Alliance for Medical Marijuana) will hold a patient meeting at
City Hall Tuesday afternoon, September 17th. Santa Cruz Mayor
Christopher Krohn, Vice Mayor Emily Reilly, city council member
Tim Fitzmaurice, and county supervisor Mardi Wormhoudt and other
public officials will be present to lend support and assistance
to the event.
"A medical marijuana provider such as
the Santa Cruz collective represents little danger to the public
and is certainly not a concern which would warrant diverting scarce
federal resources…” Stated Attorney General Bill Lockyer
“Outrageous,” U.S. Rep. Sam Farr
said of last Thursday’s raid. “ With all the difficult
problems the world faces, I find it hard to believe the DEA would
further punish sick people…”
A unique organization, WAMM is a collective
of patients – most of whom are terminally ill. Since many
of them must face a weekly choice of paying for food or medicine,
WAMM patients grow and process their own medicine.
DATE: Tuesday, September 17, 2002
TIME: 3:00pm
ADDRESS:
Santa Cruz City Hall
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA
