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Amy Ralston Povah nominated for Activist of the Year – Please vote!

CAN-DO Foundation’s President Amy Ralston Povah has been nominated for Activist of the Year by the Cannabis Business Awards.  As a member of the cannabis community, a few of Amy’s achievements include: Produced, directed and wrote the award winning 420-The Documentary film that took top prize and won Best Documentary Feature at the Santa Monica…

Three CAN-DO members featured in Washington Examiner seeking clemency
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Three CAN-DO members featured in Washington Examiner seeking clemency

CAN-DO was asked to obtain quotes from several of our clemency candidates.  Fortunately, we were able to get quotes from Michael Pelletier, Chad Marks and David Barren for the following article by Steven Nelson for Washington Examiner. When President Trump “pardons” a pair of Thanksgiving turkeys on Tuesday, prisoners will be watching and hoping that…

CAN-DO President Amy Ralston Povah in Episode 1 Podcast: Love vs DEA
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CAN-DO President Amy Ralston Povah in Episode 1 Podcast: Love vs DEA

Emanuel Sferios (Founder of Dance Safe) and co-host Tatiana Makovkin have kicked off a “risk reduction and benefit enhancement podcast reducing shame and stigma to save lives and end the drug war.” For their first podcast, they interviewed Amy Ralston Povah who refused to “cooperate” and become a working informant for the government despite the…

CAN-DO’s Amy Ralston Povah quoted on prison reform and clemency in Washington Examiner
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CAN-DO’s Amy Ralston Povah quoted on prison reform and clemency in Washington Examiner

CAN-DO members Michael Montalvo and Lavonne Roach quoted in the Washington Examiner…  “Last month, clemency advocates including Amy Povah of CAN-DO Clemency and Alveda King, the anti-abortion evangelical leader, hosted a panel at a Women for Trump event at Trump International Hotel in Washington. Povah hopes that Congress passes the legislation, and that Trump will…

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Edward Atencio – LIFE

Name: Edward Atencio DOB: 03/06/59 Age: 59 Race: Hispanic Raised: Albuquerque, NM, USA Tried: District of New Mexico Will live: Albuquerque, NM Charges: Count 1: Continuing Criminal Enterprise and Aiding and Abetting Count 2: dropped in appeals court Count 3,4,5, and 6: Maintaining a Place for Distribution of controlled Substance and Aiding and Abetting Count…