CASP is overjoyed to announce our first sustainable livelihood partner project, a collaboration with Shango Los’ nonprofit Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance! While the Grange has yet to find a dedicated partner, VIMEA is a perfect example of our organization’s Action-Research mission to find, support and collaborate with people who are already organizing their communities to inform the public and assist with adjusting to the post-502 landscape.
The following press release describes well how VIMEA and CASP missions and activities will complement each other going forward.
#Press Release#
VIMEA and CASP form Partnership for implementation of legal marijuana in rural Washington State
October 18th, 2014
Vashon Island, WA
The Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance (VIMEA) announces their partnership with The Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy (CASP). Through this partnership, VIMEA will gain access to valuable research, marijuana industry contacts and increased funding opportunities. The Center will gain first person reports, photos and legal marijuana implementation best practices from VIMEA. Both groups see this partnership as an opportunity to widen the understanding of marijuana as business and medicine.
Director of VIMEA, Shango Los stated, “We are very pleased to to form this partnership with CASP. Securing access to the center’s vast resources and marijuana policy experience will assist greatly to VIMEA’s success in rural Washington. CASP Director Dominic Corva’s in-depth understanding of global approaches to marijuana production and policy supports our goal to implement I-502 in a way that sustains our local food security while also integrating legal marijuana farming in ways consistent with our local community standards.”
CASP Director, Dominic Corva stated, “VIMEA is providing the local community organizing necessary to implement legal marijuana in a way that respects the Vashon Island community. We are grateful to secure first hand accounts to inform our policy research. We look forward to studying the VIMEA approach and help disseminate their best practices throughout the country.”
The Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance is an advocacy and trade organization for legal marijuana produced on Vashon Island in Washington State. VIMEA’s goals are to create an environment welcoming to local marijuana farmers, assist marijuana entrepreneurs in setting up their businesses, re-establish the Vashon Island marijuana brand and encourage successful farmers to reinvest a portion of their profits into the community. VIMEA is based on Vashon Island, WA.
www.vimea.org and
www.Facebook.com/vimeaThe Center for the Study of Cannabis and Social Policy (CASP) produces, reviews, and disseminates objective research and opinions about the relationship between Cannabis Policy and other forms of Social Policy including but not limited to environmental policy, agricultural policy, public health policy, policing, foreign policy, and economic policy. CASP is based in Seattle, WA.
www.cannabisandsocialpolicy.org
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Shango Los
Vashon Island Marijuana Entrepreneurs Alliance
PO Box 2327
Vashon Island, WA 98070