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They wrote:
>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:30:28 EST
>From: simler97@ix.netcom.com (Scott Imler)
>To: Multiple recipients of list <drctalk@drcnet.org>
>Subject: Announcemt: Santa Cruz CBC
>
>Cannabis Club Closes Doors To New Members
>Announces Records Audit And Protocol Review
>
>        Today, the Santa Cruz Cannabis Buyers' Club  announced, effective
>immediately, that it will no longer accept new applications for membership
>in its medical marijuana distribution program.
>        The action is being taken in response to the federal government
>lawsuit, filed last Friday, to close six of Northern California's cannabis
>clubs by civil injunction.
>        "The US Attorney has agents posing as patients and presenting
>forged documentation," said 74 year-old center director Fred Seike.
>"Couple that with the local medical community's ongoing reluctance to even
>take our phone calls, and we can no longer insure the integrity of our
>verification process."
>        Founded in March of 1993, as the Santa Cruz Medical Cannabis
>Cooperative, it was the first such organization in the state and initially
>only provided material and technical support for patients to grow their own
>marijuana at home.  Two years later, with demand far outstripping home
>cultivated supplies, the group switched to a "buyers' club" model and began
>bulk-purchasing and non-profit retail distribution.
>        "Our program isn't perfect," said Seike , "but we're a family and
>we're just trying to take care of ourselves under very difficult
>circumstances."  "We're sorry we sold marijuana to a DEA agent, but he
>tricked us."
>        Seike, who uses medical marijuana for stroke-related paralysis and
>spasticity, also announced a comprehensive audit of the buyers' club
>membership files and is requesting the cooperation of local physicians in
>re-verifying the authenticity of the many doctors letter currently on file.
>        While Seike said the center has no current plans to end its buyers
>club program altogether, and promised a spirited defense against the
>injunction in federal court, new patients in need will be referred to the
>areas two other community-based medical marijuana programs which were not
>named in the lawsuits: the Women's Alliance for Medical Marijuana in
>Davenport and the Santa Clara County Medical Cannabis Center in San Jose.
>        For information about how you can help, please contact Gilbert
>Baker @ 408-429-8819.
>END

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