First Annual Statewide Patient Conference,
May 23-25
Please plan to attend our first statewide
conference at the Feathered Pipe Ranch, a rustic
but beautiful, world-renowned yoga teaching retreat
nestled against the Helena National
Forest.
The
event starts on Friday afternoon, May 23, and will
end soon after lunchtime on Sunday, May 25.
(Download and print Registration
Form,
Adobe Reader required.)
You’re
welcome to attend any part or all of this
conference. On a
“first-registered-first-served” basis,
up to about 50 of us (potentially a few more,
depending on weather conditions) will be able to
stay at the ranch for the entire time, including
two nights of lodging and all five meals.
Others can choose to arrange lodging in Helena,
about a 17-minute drive away.
Information
about conference costs, and how to reserve space
and register, appear below – and
the form you’ll need to register is attached
for you to download/print.
But first, here’s our basic agenda, which we
will update in more detail at the event
approaches:
Friday,
May 23
·
2-4 pm: Check-in/registration
·
4:20 pm: Official opening
·
4:45 pm: “Disasters in the Grow Room:
How to Prevent & Resolve”
(panel)
·
6:30 pm: DINNER
·
7:30 pm: “Parenting in a Home with
Medical Cannabis” (Angela
Goodhope)
·
8:00 pm: Dessert… & “Cooking
with Medicinal MJ” (panel show &
tell)
Saturday,
May 24
·
8:15-9:15 am: BREAKFAST buffet
ongoing
9:00 am: Letter-writing to Congressional
delegation and others
·
BREAK
·
10:30 am:“How to Avoid Legal Problems”
(panel includes experienced
attorneys)
·
BREAK
·
1-2 pm: LUNCH: panel-led
discussion:
“How
to Choose and Build a Relationship with a
Caregiver”
·
BREAK
·
3:30 pm: Chris
Conrad
“Tales
and Advice from Gardens &
Courts”
·
4:30 pm:
Mikki Norris
“Maximizing Your Safety as a Cannabis
Consumer: Lessons & Reflections from the
California Experience”
·
BREAK
·
7 pm: DINNER
“The
coming year’s outlook for Montana patients
and caregivers: organizing for success at the state
Legislature & Congress” (Tom
Daubert)
·
BREAK
·
8:30 pm Live musicians and entertainment,
outdoors with a bonfire (or in the Main Lodge
depending on weather); enjoy the ranch’s
giant hot-tub, etc.
Sunday,
May 25
·
9-10 am: Annual business meeting of members of
Patients & Families United
•
Code of Ethics for patients & caregivers
(discuss and edit a draft)
•Policy and standards for caregiver referrals
and complaints about them
·
11 am: BRUNCH – with closing panel
discussion, conference
evaluations
·
2 pm: Training workshop: public speaking and
media interviewing about medical marijuana and
related issues
Our
Featured Speakers: Chris Conrad & Mikki
Norris
Nicknamed
“Johnny Marijuanaseed” by many,
Chris Conrad
is director of Safe Access Now, author of
Cannabis Yields &
Dosage,
Hemp: Lifeline to the Future
and
Hemp for Health,
and curator of the Hash-Marijuana-Hemp Museum in
Amsterdam, Netherlands. He has qualified as
an expert witness on cannabis more than 150 times
in the California, other State and federal U.S.
Courts. His recognized cannabis expertise
includes issues of hemp, personal use, medical use,
dosage, consumption, religious use, cultivation,
yields, preparations, pricing, sales and
intent.
www.chrisconrad.com
Mikki
Norris
has been an activist for drug policy reform since
1989. She is director of the Cannabis
Consumers Campaign, which advocates for cannabis
consumers to come out of the closet to stand up for
their equal rights (www.cannabisconsumers.org).
Since 1995, she has worked to put a human
face on the injustice of the Drug War with her
photo exhibit project, “Human Rights and the
Drug War” (www.hr95.org),
and her book,
Shattered Lives: Portraits from America's Drug
War
(1998, 2000). In 2006, she was a consultant
on the California Cities Campaign, which
successfully ran three initiative campaigns and two
city ordinances making adult marijuana offenses law
enforcement's lowest priority (www.taxandregulate.org).
In 2006, at the National NORML
conference, she was presented with the Pauline
Sabin Award “in honor and recognition of the
crucial need for and importance of women’s
leadership in ending marijuana
prohibition.” This year, she and
her husband began publishing the cannabis-themed
newspaper,
The West Coast Leaf
(www.westcoastleaf.com).
Conference
Costs & Reservations
To
register, please
download and send the enclosed form
with your deposit -- $35
per person
– to: Patients & Families United,
PO Box 1471, Helena, MT 59624.
Deadline
for receiving your reservation and $35 deposit per
person:
Friday, May 9!
Thereafter,
we cannot guarantee space – but will do our
best.
COSTS:
Full
conference, including 2 nights lodging and all 5
meals….
$225 per person
Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast lunch &
dinner, Sunday brunch
Lodging
Friday night only, with 4 meals…
$160 per person
Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast lunch &
dinner
Lodging
Saturday night only, with 3 meals (lunch, dinner,
brunch)…
$140 per person
Saturday lunch & dinner, Sunday
brunch
Attend
full conference with all 5 meals but with no
lodging…
$60 per person
Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast lunch &
dinner, Sunday brunch
Attend
all Saturday sessions with all 3 meals, no
lodging…
$40 per person
Saturday breakfast lunch &
dinner
Attend
most Saturday sessions with 2
meals
$30 per person
Saturday lunch & dinner
Important
Final Caveat About the
Conference
Gatherings
sponsored by Patients & Families United adhere
fully to all aspects of the Montana Medical
Marijuana Act and other state and local laws.
Striving to improve the law, to make it more
workable for patients and caregivers, is one of our
most important purposes – but until we
succeed we also focus on helping people learn how
to function
safely and legally.
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