WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The District
of Columbia Patients Cooperative (DCPC), a taxable non-profit
corporation that formed one year ago to provide high quality and
affordable medical “marijuana” to qualifying DC patients will host
a “Town Hall” meeting about the implementation of DC’s new medical
marijuana program. The public meeting is open to members of
the media and will take place on Thursday, February 10th at 7:00 pm
in Pierce Hall at All Souls Unitarian Church located at 16th and
Harvard Streets, NW in Washington, DC.
WHO: DC Patients Cooperative, Americans for Safe
Access, more than 100 people RSVPs including Advisory Neighborhood
Commissioners, City Officials, and People of Faith
WHAT: Town Hall Meeting on DC’s New Medical
Marijuana Program
WHEN: Thursday, February 10, 2011 at 7:00 pm
WHERE: Pierce Hall in All Souls Unitarian Church,
16th and Harvard Streets, NW, Washington, DC
“The meeting aims to provide DC residents with a better
understanding of the medical marijuana program,” say Nikolas
Schiller, a board member of DCPC. “We have been
collecting questions about the medical marijuana program from
the public and it’s clear there is a lot of confusion out
there. We will cover different topics concerning how the
patient registration process will work, as well as the rules
surrounding the cultivation and dispensing of the medicine.”
Key members of the DC Council and the Mayor have been invited to
come and speak on a panel that will feature experts from Americans
for Safe Access and DCPC. However, no officials have been
willing to confirm their attendance in a major snub to the growing
community of medical marijuana patients in Washington, DC.
“Not even the author of the new medical marijuana law, Councilman
David Catania, is willing to come explain what is going on.
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