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San Francisco CBC raided
The Cannabis
Buyers’ Club, a
San F rancisco
group that sells
m arijuana
to
people with termi­
nal illnesses, was
raided in August
by California Jus­
tice Departm ent
agents. California
Attorney General
Dan Lungren said
150 pounds of marijuana was seized in the raid.
Agents also took $60,000 in cash and about 11,000
client records.
Lungren obtained a temporary restraining or­
der forbidding further marijuana sales at the club,
reports The Associated Press.
San Francisco Sheriff Mike Hennessey has
refused to enforce the court order, saying he
hoped Lungren “would understand that our com­
munity does not wish to spend precious law
enforcement dollars busting people engaged in
distributing marijuana for medical purposes.”
The CBC had operated for five years without
any interference from San Francisco officials. Its
clients included people with AIDS, cancer, glau­
coma and other conditions for which marijuana is
said to ease the pain of the disease or the side
effects of treatment. The club said buyers were
required to provide a doctor’s letter certifying the
buyer’s serious medical condition and a photo
identification.
Lungren claimed the club sold marijuana to
minors, accepted notes on napkins and scrap
paper, and provided the drug for ailments as
minor as lower back pain.
No criminal charges have yet been filed.
Doctors endorse marijuana
ballot measure
Four days after staie law enforcement shut
down the San Francisco Cannabis Buyers’ Club,
the San Francisco Medical Society endorsed a
California ballot measure to legalize marijuana
for medical uses, according to United Press Inter­
national. The society represents approximately
2,200 doctors in San Francisco. The California
Academy of Family Physicians, which represents
about 7,500 doctors, also endorsed the initiative,
known as Proposition 215.
If approved by voters, the initiative would
allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to patients,
who would be able to fill such prescriptions at
drug stores.
Proposition 215 is opposed by Gov. Pete Wil­
son and California Attorney General Dan Lungren.
They maintain that passage of the ballot initiative
would make it easier for healthy people to obtain
and abuse marijuana.
National Youth Festival, to be held Oct. 11-13 in
Washington, D.C.
The IYG National Youth Festival will run
concurrently with the full display of the NAMES
Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National
Mall and the National Parents, Friends and Fami­
lies of Lesbians and Gays conference.
For information on the march and the IYG
National Youth Festival, call Michele O ’Mara at
(317) 541-8726 or e-mail IYG@Indy.net.
Peer groups shown to
promote safer sex
A study conducted by the Center for AIDS
Prevention Studies at the University of California
at San Francisco shows that peer-led programs
are effective in persuading young gay men to
practice safer sex, reports the San Francisco
Chronicle. The study, published in the August
issue of the American Journal o f Public Health,
involved 242 gay and bisexual men between the
ages of 18 and 27. The men participated in eight-
month prevention programs in Eugene, Ore., and
Santa Barbara, Calif.
In each city the HIV-prevention program was
run by young gay men. The programs included
discussion groups, informal outreach at gay events
and the creation of a community center. Partici­
pants were interviewed by researchers twice be­
fore the beginning of the program and twice after
the end of the program.
Two months after the program ended, re­
searchers found a 26 percent reduction in unpro­
tected anal sex with casual partners and a 28
percent reduction with boyfriends. Interviews
conducted one year later found that participants
had resumed unsafe sex with boyfriends, but had
sustained the reduction in unprotected sex with
casual partners.
“Since new young men will continue to come
out as gay each year, it is critical that there be an
ongoing system to socialize them about the need
for safer sex,” said Susan Kegeles, one of the
researchers. “Additional efforts need to focus on
risk reduction among boyfriends.”
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with Dr. Moira Gunn,
Queer film on-line service
debuts
National Public Radio Host
September 25th in Eugene
September 27th in Portland
PlanetOut, a San Francisco company whose
ultimate aim is to provide information products
and services over the Internet to lesbians and gay
men worldwide, has launched its first Web site.
PopcornQ provides movie reviews and informa­
tion. It is subtitled “the ultimate on-line home for
Discovering the Titanic and
Life at the Deep Sea Vents
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Aquarium
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October 11th Portland
Global Dreams: Redefining Progress
with Dr. David Suzuki
PBS Host, University of British Columbia
Youth march set
for October
The n atio n ’s
first queer youth
march on Wash­
ington is sched­
uled to take place
on Oct. 12. It is
estimated that 500
gay, lesbian, bi­
sexual
and
transgendered
youth will partici­
pate in the march,
which is part of the
second Indianapo­
lis Youth Group
PlanetOut was started one year ago by former
high-tech marketingexecutiveTom Rielly. Rielly
is a founder of the nonprofit organization Digital
Queers.
More than 100,000 people from 75 countries
have visited PopcornQ since the Web site opened
in June. They have found descriptions and re­
views of more than 2,500 movies and videos, a
guide to 81 gay and lesbian film festivals world­
wide, film stills, posters, professional listings,
and directories of funding sources and distribu­
tors. PopcornQ visitors can order videos from
TLA Video in Philadelphia, the largest retailer of
gay and lesbian videos.
PopcornQ ’s Web address is www.pop
comq.com.
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