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Fri, 04/14/2006 - 2:17pm — peter

Don't know about these new forums, Myke. We spent so much time working on the old ones. Can you get the old messages imported?

Salutations!

This is the infamous Peter G. Keyes. For the past year or so I have served as Vice President, Treasurer and CFO of the National Compassionate Coalition. I am inseperably teamed up with the Coalition's former National Secretary, Vanessa Nelson. We have done extensive tabling, outreach and promotion for the Coalition. Vanessa's writing, banners and brochures are nothing short of outstanding. We have traveled the state doing court support for unfortunate medical marijuana defendants, proudly displaying the Coalition name on our protest signs. After the Coalition meetings started getting hijacked by disruptive outsiders in March and April of 2006, we resigned our positions with the group.

I have been active in cannabis law reform since 1991, when I circulated Jack Herer's California Hemp Initiative. I put together the annual medical marijuana rally Cannabis at the Capitol. I wrote and published the E-dispensary, the Compassionate Coalition's electronic newsletter, from October, '05 through March, '06.

‹ Hello fellow crusaders! Hello, I'm Nathan Sands ›

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Fri, 04/14/2006 - 6:29pm — Nathan
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My Comments...

I agree that we need to have all of the old and new discussion posts in one area... any luck with that Myke?

I also have to say, as Chairman of the Board, that The Compassionate Coalition and its meetings have NOT been "hijacked" by "outsiders". The Coalition is still under the control of its Board of Directors, and all of its grassroots memebers, as it has always been.

Nathan Sands
Chairman of the Board
Compassionate Coalition
www.CompassionateCoalition.org
Email: nathan@CompassionateCoalition.org
Phone: (916) 709-2483

Fri, 04/14/2006 - 8:37pm — peter
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outsiders

I was refering to the individuals who came to our last 2 meetings for the first time to berate me, or for that vote.

Sun, 04/23/2006 - 12:40am — Jason

Conflict can impair productivity

I'd say that's more of a local Sacramento issue. As often happens, the truth lies somewhere between the two extremes.

I believe there were some dishonorable political tactics used recently in Sacramento, but I also think this sort of thing has been more the exception than the rule.

Implementing a well-crafted set of procedures for membership, voting, and maybe other issues would help to strengthen the Coalition, and hopefully enable us to keep better control of our organization.

Peter and Nathan, I understand your frustration--a lot of unpleasant things have happened around here recently. Creating clearer and better procedures may take some time, but will be worth it in the end. Until then, I'd like to see us focus on the 99.9% of issues that we all agree on. We're all here to defend the rights of medical Cannabis patients, and it's a hard fight.

Let's keep working toward our goal, and avoid any more unnecessary hurt feelings. We've all worked well together before, and I say that we can continue to do so.

--Jason

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