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We are the Wo/Men's Alliance
for
Medical Marijuana
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| The Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical
Marijuana (WAMM) is a collective of patients and caregivers, providing hope,
building community, and offering medical marijuana at no cost to seriously ill patients
with a doctor's recommendation. We provide safe access to a safe, organic supply of
medical marijuana for the
treatment of terminal and chronic illness, to relieve suffering. |
WAMM grows medical marijuana
for terminally ill patients. |
| WAMM works closely with
people facing the the greatest challenges that life gives. We are at the very
essence of the movement to uphold the Democratic process
by bringing the issue of medical marijuana use before the people of
California through
proposition 215 California's citizens voted
overwhelmingly in support of the proposition. |
| Yet, the federal government
ignores the egalitarian principles upon which our nation was founded
refuting California law and on September. 5th 2002, the DEA
raided the WAMM garden and using chainsaws, destroyed the medicine belonging
to 250 patients, 85% of them terminally ill. WAMM has since filed charges
against the Federal Government, demanding that this medicine be returned.
Currently, however, we regret that we are unable to accept any new patients. |
Supreme Court Rules Against Compassionate Access
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Valerie Leveroni Corral
(co-founder) speaks. WAMM members carry signs honoring our
dead.
6-7-05
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Photos:
Chuck Nacke |
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"When citizens require protection from
their own government and need to cloak in secrecy acts of compassion for the
sick and dying a great darkness befalls our nation. All people face
suffering; every human being will find intimacy with this. It is our hope
that this truth will awaken the sympathies of our judiciary and of congress. |
For it is the
business of government to protect its people and to maintain the path of
liberty clearing the way for freedom."
-- Valerie Leveroni Corral (WAMM Co-founder) |
| "At this time of grave
injustice and failure of our justice system at the highest level I am moved
to tears. A country that calls itself a democracy yet rules against the
democratic process is tantamount to fascism. With this ruling the sick will
continue to suffer, will continue to live in fear and will be forced to pay
high prices for their medicine. Both pharmaceutical and herbal. This
is part of the travesty of a government that lives by rhetoric and not by
good deeds. Now is the time for all of us to rise up and let our voices be
heard. |
MikeCorral co-founded WAMM |
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The spirit of humanity is being called to stand in the
light of truth so that we can change the hearts of our adversaries."
--Mike Corral (WAMM Co-founder)
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WAMM members, caregivers, family
members and concerned community leaders hold signs with
images of members who have already passed on at a
demonstration on 6-7-05.
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photo: Jackie Meaden |
Join your voice with
these Community Leaders:
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DEA spokesman
Richard Meyer:
(About Valerie Corral)
“I’m personally impressed with her desire
to help deathly ill people,”
California
Attorney General Bill Lockyer:
"This is targeting people who consistent with
California voters direction are trying to provide medicine to people that are
terminally ill and in need of help. For the federal government to step on that
it just strikes me that they're a bunch of big bullies,"
Former Governor Gray
Davis: "I have compassion for
people who are sick and are properly using marijuana under our law. Nine states
have a law that allow for marijuana to be used for medicinal purposes. So I'm
going to work with Attorney General Lockyer to see if we can't find a way to get
on the same page with the Federal Government... As governor, it's my job to
enforce the laws that the people pass, and the people passed this law."
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Sept. 17th, WAMM patient, Robert Anton Wilson,
picks up his weekly supply of Medical Marijuana in front of Santa Cruz
City Hall and millions of people around the world. |
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Santa Cruz County
Supervisor Mardi
Wormhoudt:
Called the DEA’s actions
“absolutely appalling” and praised WAMM as an “extremely responsible
collective; they have operated in a way that has been exemplary. It is not
reassuring to me to know that federal agents, instead of concentrating on
issues of national security, are running around the mountains of Santa
Cruz County disrupting the work of people who provide a valuable medical
resource to the community," she added.
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U.S. Representative
Sam Farr:
Said the DEA should focus on more pressing woes,
calling Thursday’s action "outrageous." "With all the difficult problems the
world faces, I find it hard to believe the DEA should further punish sick
people, most of whom are terminally ill, by arresting them and carting them off
to jail," Farr said in a statement. "This is truly outrageous."
"The DEA under the Bush administration has
made it perfectly clear that they don't care about the will of California
voters, who think medical marijuana should be available for people whose
doctors believe they would benefit from it," Attorney General Bill
Lockyer's spokeswoman Hallye Jordan said Thursday.
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Santa Cruz City Attorney
John Barisone:
"The thought is, do they want to come and
confront a 70-year-old woman in a wheelchair?" He said. "The
comments that council members are getting from people on the street are
along the line of, 'With all of the things the DEA is responsible for, how
did this get to No. 1 on the 'to do' list?' "
Santa Cruz Former Mayor Emily
Reilly:
"It’s just absolutely loathsome to me that federal
money, energy and staff time would be used to harass people like this,"
Santa Cruz Former Mayor
Christopher Krohn:
"We want to call attention to this issue. There was
an injustice here being done, and I think it's incumbent of the elected
representatives to stand up for their constituents and make a statement."
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Santa Cruz City
Councilman
Mark Primack:
"we are expressing what we feel to be the entire
community's outrage and our support for those who are struggling to make this
program work. "
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Deputy
Kim Allyn of the
Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Department:
Said the DEA never told his department about the
raid. Deputies went there after the fact only to keep the peace between
protesters and DEA agents, he said: "Our concern is to make sure nobody gets
hurt."
The department has a marijuana enforcement
team targeting illegal trafficking, Allen said, but meets regularly with
the Corrals and had deemed WAMM in compliance with -- and protected by --
state law.
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