cannabisnews.com: Medical Pot on The Meeting Menu Medical Pot on The Meeting Menu Posted by CN Staff on June 04, 2002 at 08:27:26 PT By Gregory Crofton, Tahoe Daily Tribune Source: Tahoe Daily Tribune El Dorado County law enforcement met twice with medical marijuana advocates in the last several months to re-evaluate how much pot possession is legal to treat the sick.A third meeting is planned for mid-June. Gary Lacy, El Dorado County district attorney, Sheriff-elect Jeff Neves and Erik Schlueter, deputy district attorney, attended the meetings. Lacy said his group plans to consult with colleagues before they present new medical marijuana guidelines to the advocates in a few weeks. The Compassionate Use Act, which passed in 1996, did not specify how much a patient or provider could legally possess. Right now, guidelines specified by Lacy allow someone with a doctor's recommendation to use marijuana, or someone who provides marijuana to a sick person with a recommendation, to possess six plants and/or two pounds of processed marijuana.The meetings, the most recent of which took place at Denny's in Placerville on May 22, grew out of a forum held in Garden Valley more than a year ago. Law enforcement officials were asked to attend the meeting but only one county employee showed up -- Dr. Steven Drogan, a health officer.Judy Ryland, an El Dorado County resident, organized the forum as well as the recent meetings."I'm a networker," she said. "A year ago I initiated a forum and invited law enforcement. They didn't come. Now things are turning and we're talking. This is good."Ryland was joined by Dr. Molly Fry, and her husband, Dale Schafer, who runs the California Medical Research Center at Cool, Calif. Dr. Philip Denney, a physician from Loomis, Calif., and a medical marijuana patient, also attended the meeting."We presented what the Sonoma County guidelines are," Ryland said. "We are looking at them because they seem to be working there."Guidelines set forth by the Sonoma County District Attorney's Office are a little more than a page in length. They specify 10 questions a deputy should ask in the field if he or she is handling a possible medical marijuana case.The guidelines allow not more than 99 plants and/or 3 pounds of processed marijuana per patient or provider. In order to produce 3 pounds of the drug, one can cultivate marijuana plants with a combined canopy that fills 100 square feet as long as that canopy does not contain more than 99 plants.Any amount of marijuana, processed or growing, that exceeds those limits can be confiscated by law enforcement.Source: Tahoe Daily Tribune (CA)Author: Gregory Crofton, Tahoe Daily Tribune Published: June 3, 2002Copyright: 2002 Tahoe Daily TribuneContact: tribune tahoe.comWebsite: http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/Related Articles & Web Sites:Americans for Safe Accesshttp://safeaccessnow.org Medical Marijuana Information Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/medical.htmArrests Highlight Pot Conflict http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13020.shtmlPatients Push Back After DEA Raids in Santa Rosa http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread13016.shtmlWar on Pot is a Raid on States' Rightshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11553.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #5 posted by fivepounder on June 04, 2002 at 12:19:22 PT maybe but... Great except for the 100 square feet. That is not enough for all the people that need it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on June 04, 2002 at 11:24:50 PT el_toonces I couldn't find their web site. Many of my california articles are snipped and that takes the links too. If anyone knows the web address please post it and I'll have it to use again. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by el_toonces on June 04, 2002 at 11:20:23 PT: Starting some motion..... Do you know how hard it was for Dale and Dr. Molly to even get these local pols to sit down with them to discuss these issues? From the little I know, these local pols had to threatened with a 'big stick' (=large number of votes) to even become willing to sit down and talk.We need more Dales, more Mollys. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by FoM on June 04, 2002 at 10:03:51 PT Guidelines This is acceptable I believe. The guidelines allow not more than 99 plants and/or 3 pounds of processed marijuana per patient or provider. In order to produce 3 pounds of the drug, one can cultivate marijuana plants with a combined canopy that fills 100 square feet as long as that canopy does not contain more than 99 plants. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Nicholas Thimmesch on June 04, 2002 at 08:44:19 PT: Now this may be progress.... ...if it ain't a sting (which I have no reason to believe it is): kudoos to Judy Ryland & those really brave law enforcement people who are finally recognizing the true meaning of community based policing. [ Post Comment ] Post Comment