The only long term solution is to force the Feds to reclassify Cannabis and remove it from schedule one. There is ample medical research that now shows cannabis DOES have legitimate medical uses. Take it back to the supreme court.
Marijuana and Cannabis News
Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 11:20 am
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| CowHen.net |
| California Attorney General Kamala Harris: "Without a substantive change to existing law, these irreconcilable interpretations of the law, and the resulting uncertainty for law enforcement and seriously ill patients, will persist" |
The attorney general, who was elected with widespread backing from the state's medical marijuana industry (OK, it wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement, it was more a case of "Anybody But Cooley"), has been under pressure to defend the state's medicinal cannabis law since October, when the state's four U.S. Attorneys announced a statewide crackdown on dispensaries.
Dozens of the shops -- which the federal prosecutors claimed were fronts for public drug dealing -- have since closed, reports Lisa Leff at the Associated Press.
Harris said in a letter to two leaders of the Legislature that California needs to decide if, in fact, the hundreds of storefront dispensaries and delivery services that sell cannabis are legal, or if the only legal way to get medicinal cannabis is through patient collectives.
"Without a substantive change to existing law, these irreconcilable interpretations of the law, and the resulting uncertainty for law enforcement and seriously ill patients, will persist," she wrote in the letter to Senate President Darrell Steinberg and Assembly Speaker John Perez.
Harris also sent another letter Wednesday to the U.S. Attorneys alerting them of her requests to the Legislature. To her credit, the Attorney General asked the federal prosecutors to focus on human trafficking and international gangs instead of California patients and providers who are trying to comply with the state's medical marijuana laws.
"The federal government is ill-equipped to be the sole arbiter of whether an individual or group is acting within the bounds of California's medical marijuana laws when cultivating marijuana for medical purposes," Harris wrote to the federal prosecutors.
Harris' office spent much of the year trying to rewrite the medical marijuana guidelines issued by then-Attorney General, now Gov. Jerry Brown in 2008.
But in the letters sent Wednesday, Harris sounded ready to drop back and punt. She said after talking with city councils and county supervisors, police and the medical marijuana community that it is up to the Legislature to clarify the law, because any directives she issued would by definition lack the force of law, which sounds uncomfortably close to "it's not my problem."
The Legislature may have a certain lack of enthusiasm for tackling the thorny subject of medical marijuana again. Earlier this year, two cannabis-related bills -- one that would have prohibited employers from discriminating against medical marijuana patients, and another that would have made growing marijuana a misdemeanor -- did not get anywhere.
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you ever notice the people that hate pot are the most stuck up jack asses on the damn planet, most of the time a woman that knows nothing about the subject. Do they realize how dumb they look and how many people wanna jump through the television and let America know the truth about pot. Lets have a stand off and you bring all your people that hate it and all your reasons and... I alone..... will prove all your reasons wrong and make you look like fools. Post a time and date. I wanna see these so called people that are soooo against it they have to make it illegal and throw people in jail and take our right from us just because they don't do it. Sick damn world we live in. If there is a hell, you will be there.
Why can't we have a nation wide vote for legalization of marijuana in America? Lets wake up, we are missing out big time on the worlds most natural medicine that helps millions, not to mention a billion dollar industry. Why would you be against it? Do you even have any real reasons other than you just want to hate? I've heard all the reasons you people have for not liking pot and they are all lame. You same people go get drunk and say that's ok, when fact is alcohol is far worse than pot. Any one that hates marijuana is just weird. Its legal in almost every free country in the world other than ours. Why is that? Because of morons that want to hate something for no reason........brainwashed people........ sick world we live in where we have people in jail over pot the most natural substance you could ever find. Its good for you in edible form.... harmless, unlike the caffeine you drink every morning and the tobacco you consider legal. What kind of joke do we have going on here in America where you waste millions trying to stop something that the people want. Marijuana could save the rain forests, it is the fastest growing organism in the world and the paper, rope, clothing, ext.. would save us from cutting down trees. But instead you destroy forest for no reason. How can anyone ever classify marijuana in the same class as a narcotic? It grows natural untouched by man! ITS A FREE COUNTRY AND WE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO CHOSE IF WE WANT TO CONSUME MARIJUANA!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE TAKEN YOUR RIGHTS, WE WANT THOSE RIGHTS BACK!!!!!!! END OF STORY!!!!!!! GO WORRY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T PISS MILLIONS OFF. people are sick of the bullshit, let us live for f sakes. concerned
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America does not have a marijuana problem,we can find marijuana in ANY town in America.
Our government wants us to buy it from criminals.
There will never be a complete solution to marijuana,medical or recreational until America becomes aware of the benefits and relative harmless nature of marijuana,,,,,so,get a straight high today,,,pick a relative,a long time friend or acquaintance that doesn't smoke and get them high,show them the facts by interaction,then start educating them,,it is the way we have come this far and now we need to step it up.
San Benardino Patient's Associatioon in Chino was shut down in August of this year. The closure came as a result of the San Bernardino County Code Enforcement threating our landlord with arrest and seizure. We paid over thirty thousand dollars in citation fines. We would still be paying the fines, but we were evicted!
This closure took place dispite the fact that we were and still are a registered California, NON-PROFIT organization. Being non-profir does not matter!
We've become a police state, were the law enforcement dictate "their own" laws!
It really doesn't matter anymore! Our country is going down the tube!
Thumbs up kamala harris! She could be ignoring the issue but instead kamala is doing the right thing by confronting the problem. From reading her guidelines and comments, kamala harris definitely is aware of what needs clarification in the medical marijuana laws. Good luck cali!
This illustrates the Global role that law enforcement -- from local police officers to state attorney generals -- are taking in ushering in the way for Big Pharma to takeover and obliterate the right to "grow your own" at home. Same thing is being orchestrated up here in Michigan under Attorney General Bill Schuette. In both cases they lie about the need to "clarify" as they proceed to take everyone's right to grow away. Again the only real answer is a "free market" in Cannabis Farming under which there will be no taxes, regulation or government control over what has been going on for over 2,000 years: adults exercising their inalienable right to grow their own herbs and foods. And eclipsing the Cannabis Issue is Agenda21 and Codex Alimentarius. If you are unfamilier with thiese agendas I would highly encourage you to understand both as Obama is pushing both very hard as I speak: both in Mexico (Fast and Furious) and in Canada (NAU, SSPP). We are on the cusp of the 2nd American Revolution. Screw both these attorney generals.
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Yes, bill schuette is a fascist Nazi pig! He goes on the news and lies about dispensaries being next to schools and churches and what not. That is an outright lie my friends! The sad part is people are going to believe him!. What a lying scum. That shouldn't be allowed, to go on public television, being a politician and all, lying and get away with it. It is just plain unamerican! This evil person's third biggest contributor is michigan wine and beer association! What does that tell you? If I have to wait four months to get my meds from my caregiver, there's a waiting period folks when you first sign up with your caregiver! I could go to the dispensary to buy medical grade meds instead of buying off of the street some bunk that don't even get you high and he makes all of them close, although there's actually quite a few still open! I get my meds from my caregiver now and don't worry about that aspect, but what about the people that need meds and can't grow it themselves or don't have a caregiver! A high percentage by the way, the guy's an enemy of the people! Where ever they legalize is where I'm moving to. The hell with michigan and it's Nazi politics!
If every current and future medical cannabis state enacted a regulatory framework, I doubt the Justice Department has the resources or public support to attack states' rights.
This really is great news. So just maybe the DEA will take us legitimately if we actually have regulation.
Get 51% of the people to say yes to legalization next November and all this nonsense ends. OK I know it's not really that easy but if you're not scared of a group of Politicians who are afraid to say the word Cannabis let alone talk about legalization setup how medicine should be dispensed to patients then you're crazy.
It doesnt help either when most of The Emerald Triangle is against legalization. They wouldntwant this to cut in any of their profits now, would they.
Or the dispensary owners like Montel Williams and Steve DeAngelo who do not want to take the profit out of their non-profit dispensaries. Hopefully the DEA's attacks will help them to realize smaller profits in a more competitive environment is still preferable to jail.
