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Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA]
    #7426022 - 09/18/07 09:57 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival
September 18, 2007 - santacruzsentinel.com

SANTA CRUZ — City leaders have made an exception to the no-smoking rule at parks to allow an annual tradition to continue.

The smoking ban, less than two years old, will be lifted temporarily for medical marijuana users to medicate at San Lorenzo Park during next week’s Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana annual festival.

“I think there’s a solid basis for supporting this group,” said Councilman Mike Rotkin, who joined Mayor Emily Reilly in writing the resolution to exempt WAMM from the smoking ban. “They’re pretty selfless folks. It’s not like they’re out there profiting off other people’s medical needs.”

WAMM is a cooperative started in 1993 for seriously ill medical marijuana patients to grow and share the plant. The cooperative has about 200 members.

The City Council unanimously approved the exemption last week.

The smoking ban was created in March 2006 to protect public health and safety at San Lorenzo and Grant Street parks.

The ban would have prevented organizers and attendees of WAMM’s Sept. 29 festival from using their medicine, WAMM co-founder Valerie Corral said. Corral spoke with Reilly about her medical concerns about patients not using marijuana while attending the event and didn’t want them to have to stay home.

Smoking has been a regular part of the WAMM festival, which has taken place annually for 14 years to raise awareness and funds for medical marijuana issues and celebrate the community’s support for the cooperative Corral started with her husband, Mike Corral.

Corral estimated nearly 2,000 people attended last year’s festival.

Smoking marijuana takes place inside a tent by a small portion of attendees, she said.

“This isn’t Ohio,” Corral said Tuesday. “It makes perfect sense to use medical marijuana in a very discreet and thoughtful manner. This is the way it’s always been and there’s never ever been a remote complaint.”

Rotkin said the council would likely make similar exceptions for other groups doing good in the community.

He cited the city’s sleeping ban, which prevents camping in city parks, as an example. “If the Boy Scouts wanted to have a sleep out in Harvey West Park, we’d say yes,” Rotkin said. “WAMM falls into that general category.”

However, Councilman Ed Porter said he had “mixed feelings” about granting the temporary exemption.

The issue was on the council’s consent agenda, a list of items passed without discussion, and was not questioned by the council or public.

“If it were publicly discussed, I’d probably have voted no,” Porter said. “I just decided not to be the only one to question it, so I remained silent.”

The exemption will be in effect from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 29.


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: veggie]
    #7426202 - 09/18/07 10:34 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

right on guys!

i miss it there.


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: CptnGarden]
    #7426979 - 09/19/07 05:53 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

thats ill


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: Alion]
    #7427203 - 09/19/07 08:06 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

I love all these pro mairjuana articles. (or atleast articles not demonising mj).


Good thing to wake up to in the morning.:sun:


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: TTT]
    #7427351 - 09/19/07 09:29 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

seems like they got it on the head. repsonsible use in a responsible/ public environment.


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: wortiesbo]
    #7427557 - 09/19/07 10:51 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

sicki


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: searchalx]
    #7430017 - 09/19/07 08:53 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Santa Cruz is cool.


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: Sebastian23]
    #7450025 - 09/24/07 11:50 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Does anyone know if you have to be 18 to attend this event?


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: never_2_high]
    #7450063 - 09/25/07 12:06 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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never_2_high said:
Does anyone know if you have to be 18 to attend this event?




Why are you asking ? :smirk:


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: Brainiac]
    #7452601 - 09/25/07 05:07 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Cuz I want to bring my brother with me but he's 17. Do you have to be 18 or not?


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: never_2_high]
    #7452973 - 09/25/07 06:48 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

dont trip, just go


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: searchalx]
    #7456722 - 09/26/07 05:41 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Are you sure they wont check for medical cards? Mine expired?


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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: never_2_high]
    #7464898 - 09/28/07 04:37 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: never_2_high]
    #7467663 - 09/29/07 04:08 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: Santa Cruz lifts park smoking ban for medical marijuana festival [CA] [Re: veggie]
    #7469542 - 09/30/07 08:55 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

WAMMfest raises awareness, draws crowd
September 30, 2007 - santacruzsentinel.com

SANTA CRUZ — The smell of burning marijuana wafted through San Lorenzo Park during the Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana annual festival Saturday, though organizers said sharing information about medicinal marijuana, not using it, was the focus of the event.

"Really, this isn't about smoking in public. It's about raising awareness," WAMM co-founder Valerie Corral said. "It's about medicine and human suffering"

The group started WAMMfest 14 years ago as a fundraiser and community outreach effort. This year, the City Council voted to lift the 18-month-old ban on smoking in city parks to allow medicinal marijuana patients to light up at the event.

Hundreds of people filtered through the festival, which included live music, a kids' play area, auction and several information booths, and the weekly Saturday Market.

"We got nice weather and a pretty good turnout," Corral said.

Nearly 2,000 people attended last year's festival. Final attendance figures for this year's event were not immediately available.

Mary Cross of Capitola said she came out to support WAMM, a 200-member cooperative started in Santa Cruz in 1993. Its goal is to help the seriously ill use, grow and share marijuana for medical purposes.

"I believe that it's really important for the community to come and see what WAMM is all about," said Cross, a medicinal marijuana patient who said she uses pot to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. "It's the only thing that can help me sleep at night.

"It really helps people," she added, surveying a photo display of dozens of former WAMM members who have succumbed to their illnesses.

Others sprawled out on the grassy hill in front of the stage, enjoying the sunshine and a spliff.

"I'm an everyday user, just because it's great," said Moe Jasari, who came from the south San Francisco Bay Area with two friends for the festival.

Police reported no problems with the afternoon festival. But after Measure K was passed with 60 percent of the vote in November, Santa Cruz police are forced to make adult marijuana-related crimes on private property a low priority.

Marijuana became legal in California in 1996 for people with serious illnesses, however, the federal government considers the drug illegal and has the authority to confiscate marijuana, even if it's used for medicinal purposes.

Earlier this month, in the case of Santa Cruz County v. Alberto Gonzales, U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel granted the attorney general's motion to prevent a Santa Cruz marijuana cooperative and its supporters from suing the office to stop federal marijuana raids.

At the time, Mike Corral said: "Naturally, we're disappointed. I had hoped for something better" Corral, who owned the land where federal agents seized medical pot plants in September 2002, thrusting him, his wife and their collective into the five-year legal battle that's put the them at the center of California's medical marijuana debate.

The suit, filed on behalf of WAMM, the city of Santa Cruz and the county in 2003, contends that federal agents went too far in seizing 165 marijuana plants from Corral's plot. The suit cites the Compassionate Use Act.

The Attorney General's Office, though, has maintained that marijuana, no matter how it is used, is illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act, prompting the office to seek dismissal of the Santa Cruz County suit.


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