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The Southern Alliance for Medical Marijuana Announces Spring 2012 Event

I am happy to announce that "The Southern Alliance For Medical Marijuana" is going to host a Medical Marijuana Awareness Day in Nashville, TN on April 21, 2012.  We expect to have this event at the BiCentennial Mall, just across the street from the State Capital.

On Friday, April 20th, (ie 420) at 7pm in the evening, there will be a showing of the documentary "Square Grouper" by Special Guest Robert Plantshorn, aka, "Black Tuna".  He will share his story about being a marijuana smuggler, him and nearly the entire town of Everglade City, Florida back in the 1970's,   it's a fascinating story!  There will be a $7 Fee for the movie to help cover expenses.  We are considering food and a cash bar as well for Friday night.

On Friday, 420, in the mid- morning, there will be a March on the State Capitol for a call on elected State officials to pass  SB1520 in the 2012 session, which calls for Safe Access medical marijuana protection laws for hundreds of thousands of Tennesseans, allowing many to receive non pharmaceutical alternatives to control many serious physical symptoms like chronic pain, nausea,  muscle spasticity etc and, even receive scientifically proven HEALING benefits as well, not just Palliative relief, but healing from Marijuana.  The research is out there and it needs to be shared!!

We are asking all Tennesseans and any other Pro-MMJ supporters that we can get, especially from the South, to please attend and show your support.  If you own a business, please consider becoming a sponsor.

This fund raiser event will help launch statewide campaigns throughout the Southern U.S.  The goal of The S.A.M.M. is to work with other Southern State's organizations as a collective to aid in group promotion and strength in numbers.  The South is simply different from the rest of the national regions and it's going to take a serious collective effort of all southern Pro- MMJ organizations and pro marijuana groups to start getting this kind of civil liberty protection under the law.

I will add updates here as things progress.

We need volunteers with varying skills to help get The SAMM off the ground officially.  I am in particular need of someone with good web design and maintenance skills that would be willing to volunteer part time to help me with the web site.  If you have any skills you can offer, please let me know.  We are of course, always in need of donors.  Believe me $20 may not seem like you're helping much but $20 by many people, equals great resource potential.

We will also need vendors for this event.  If you want to get on the list early, please let me know you're interested by dropping me a line at the email address below.

Thank you in advance for all of your support!

Kim West Hipps
kimhipps@comcast.net
skype: kim.psi
Twitter @ hempamerica

A Year's Journey!

Since my last post, over one year ago, I have been on quite a Marijuana journey.

After getting sick I decided to move to California so that I could live as a respected citizen, able to smoke medical marijuana for my MS and related symptoms. Wow, what a joy that was, living openly as a medical marijuana user, able to walk into any dispensary and ask for any marijuana strain I thought might suit my needs! But, work was too hard to find and I had to move back to Tennessee, and move back into the closet.

What a shock to the system that was. Suddenly, my closet had become much smaller it seemed and I was no longer willing to sit back and do nothing.

I have now started The Southern Alliance for Medical Marijuana. Our goal is to see that each Southern State enacts compassionate act Medical Marijuana Laws in order to protect people with serious illness from criminal prosecution, allowing safe access to medical marijuana.

This week, our 15th State, Arizona, joined the Medical Marijuana network of States but the South still is the only region in the U.S. that doesn't have a State that protects its citizens and allows access to medication that has scientifically proven benefits.

While I am here in Tennessee, I'm becoming a part of the change and I look forward to watching my State and many other states join in this rational movement.

The Marijuana Policy Project is initiating a Campaign For 26 by 2012, and they're kicking off the campaign in Arkansas, a bona fide Southern State so I am especially excited about this. You can find out more at www.mpp.org.

The S.A.M.M. is currently in great need of volunteers from all Southern States as well as donations! Even a small donation can go a long way in helping us achieve our non profit status and build as a powerful voice within local and regional government.

Please tell your friends.

A lot has changed since I began this blog over 2 or is it 3 years ago?

Not just within myself but within society and within our collective perceptions of Marijuana and Hemp. The science comes forward daily, proving that Marijuana provides not only relief, but provides healing ability for many diseases like MS, Cancer and Diabetes.

The Baby Boomers, the largest segment of our growing population, are all retiring and are realizing that the pot of their youth is also healing for the pains of their later years. In fact, in CA, the dispensaries generally claim that the majority of patients are over age 45, not 22 year old young people that don't need cannabis.

Within the next few years, It's predicted that over half of the country's States will have enacted medical marijuana laws. I look forward to watching this grow, as people realize that old myths no longer define our knowledge of this creator- given plant.

So, off with the old, and on with the new, the social experiment continues.

If you or someone you know live in the South U.S. please consider volunteering or making a donation to The S.A.M.M. at the site listed below.

Kim

The Southern Alliance For Medical Marijuana