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Meetings start in North Texas to prepare for the next session.
We will start Texas Coalition for Compassionate Care meetings in north Texas this month.
When: The third Tuesday (Feb. 16th) at 7:00 PM.
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff in 3839 W. Kiest Blvd. Dallas, Texas. http://www.oakcliffuu.org/directions.shtml

Topics of discussion will be:
1) Writing monthly newsletters- Our statewide newsletter list is over 3000 people now and is growing every week. We are now paying for an e-mail server for our newsletters and will unlikely lose service again. We need others to help with the effort to inform this list about national and local news on medical marijuana and to utilize the energy of the people on this list help change policy in this state and nationally. We will also discuss setting up an online forum to help organize across the state.
2) Legislative Strategy: We will discuss legislative strategy in both the Texas house and the senate.
3) Media: We have received great media attention for the effort we have put out there. The media is looking for our stories, we need to be there to share them.
4) Brainstorm Ideas to Build the strength of the coalition.
5) Future meetings: We will set up regular meeting times.
Hope to see you there.

Sincerely,
Stephen Betzen