In a sign that medical marijuana advocacy is going increasingly mainstream, in late April, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe announced a pro bono partnership with Americans for Safe Access, an Oakland, California-based nonprofit that lobbies lawmakers on how to improve their states’ medical marijuana laws and seeks to educate patients on their rights to use cannabis.
“This partnership is a representation of where this advocacy is going,” says ASA executive director Steph Sherer. “That they see this as an issue that warrants this type of support” shows that the taboo around medical marijuana is diminishing, she adds.
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