Medical Cannabis Rallies in Los Angeles & San Francisco Monday, July 18th at Noon

Online, July 17, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Medical Cannabis Rallies in Los Angeles & San Francisco Monday, July 18th at Noon

Patients & advocates fear hostile federal action since recent White House statements.

Medical cannabis patients and supporters will gather for peaceful demonstrations in Los Angeles and San Francisco on Monday, July 18, 2011, at 12 p.m. to express concerns about further federal raids and criminal prosecutions in states with medical cannabis
laws since statements from the U.S. Department of Justice, the DEA and Drug Czar.

Patients and advocates will gather in Los Angeles on Monday, July 18, 2011, at 12 p.m. at City Hall Park on the corner of W. Main and E. 1st Streets in downtown Los Angeles.

Patients and advocates will gather in San Francisco on Monday, July 18, 2011, at 12 p.m. in front of the State Building at 455 Golden Gate between Larkin and Post.

Please contact Dege Coutee at (323) 334-5282 or Shona Gochenaur at (415) 240-5247 with questions.

Axis of Love is a center providing services for low-income medical cannabis patients in the San Francisco community founded by local cannabis activist and advocate S.L.G., Axis of Love SF Director. For over three years, its members are active medical cannabis advocates in local government while also supporting one another. Members are on disability, Section 8, many are veterans and HIV survivors. Food, harm reduction services, counseling and massage therapy are all provided at no additional cost. In addition, Axis of Love provides compassionate medical cannabis medicine at no extra cost to its members thanks to generous donations by local independent growers. Axis of Love demonstrates how activism, medicine and community can have a beneficial effects on our society.

Cannabis Saves Lives' mission is to educate medical cannabis patients and providers on how to protect their legal rights and effectively engage the democratic process. It advocates for patients to law enforcement and legislative officials, locally and nationally, about medical cannabis issues; social, scientific and legal.