Low-income, disabled and veteran medical cannabis patients of San Francisco need your help. For over three years, Axis of Love Medical Cannabis Compassion Center has been a space of refuge and aid for some of the neediest medical cannabis patients of San Francisco. Providing various forms of assistance, food, clothing, massage therapy and free compassionate medical cannabis to its members, Axis of Love has been able to improve the lives of many based on donations from the San Francisco community and medical cannabis organizations and dispensaries.

Axis of Love is an organization that has not only provided much needed support to its immediate membera, but it has also educated and allied itself with various causes, movements and legislation regarding medical cannabis in San Francisco. Supporting new dispensaries, protecting patients rights, court support and organizing rallies around medical marijuana issues, Axis of Love members have been actively involved in giving a voice to patient issues at home.

Please help Axis of Love continue its services and compassion. Although Axis of Love sells no medical cannabis, or any other products, the center is in danger of ceasing operations because it provides free, donated medical cannabis to its members. The City of San Francisco has decided to view Axis of Love as a Medical Cannabis Dispensary (MCD), which means that the center must go through permit applications to continue operating. This is a very tedious and expensive process that can cost over $50,000.

We urge the author of the Medical Cannabis Act and the father of the Green Party in the U.S. to amend this Act in respect to the rights of low-income patients. The current definition of a Medical Cannabis Dispensary (MCD) states that ten patients cultivating or distributing medical cannabis together, regardless if funds are exchanged, need to register as a MCD. This process may cost over $50,000. This impedes safe access for medical cannabis patients, and does not support the neediest of patients, and makes low-income medical cannabis patient sharing circles vulnerable to law enforcement.

We demand that the definition of a Medical Cannabis Dispensary (MCD) state that MCDs are establishments that specifically distributes medicine to patients for a cash, credit, and/or debit exchange, and not be defined by the number of patients that are served. A MCD needs to be defined by the nature of the transactions that are involved.