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Supes Set To Act on Gallegos' Pot Guidelines
Posted by CN Staff on January 15, 2004 at 12:01:35 PT
By Emily Gurnon
Source: North Coast Journal 
New medical marijuana guidelines for the county could soon be in place if the Board of Supervisors takes action Tuesday on a proposal brought by Supervisor Roger Rodoni.If supporters get their way, the new ordinance would set in stone the guidelines established by District Attorney Paul Gallegos. Or it could create new, more restrictive guidelines.
The DA's office announced last year that it would not prosecute medical marijuana cases if the amounts were below a certain threshold: 99 plants, provided they fit into a 100 square foot area, yielding about 3 pounds of processed pot.One problem, medical pot advocates say, is the Gallegos guidelines only go so far."That doesn't mean the police can't come into your house and take you away. That just means that Paul won't prosecute anybody," said Jason Fishbain of McKinleyville, a medical marijuana patient and local coordinator for the activist group Safe Access Now.The proposed ordinance would direct sheriff's deputies to make arrests based on Gallegos' guidelines -- or whatever limits the board sets.The push for a local law also comes from SB 420, a new state law intended to clarify the uncertainties of Proposition 215, the medical marijuana initiative passed by voters in 1996. SB 420 establishes a statewide voluntary ID card system to protect patients and their caregivers from arrest for possession, cultivation and transportation of medical pot.The problem with SB 420 is that its guidelines for the amount of pot patients can have are significantly lower than Gallegos': only six mature or 12 immature plants, plus a half-pound of processed weed. But the state law says that local jurisdictions can set higher or lower limits.Sheriff Gary Philp said he was meeting with other local law enforcement officials this week to get their input on Rodoni's proposal. He said he's concerned that a county law will not impact other police agencies; a medical marijuana patient could be arrested in Fortuna for an amount of pot that would not get him arrested in unincorporated parts of the county, for instance."That's what I'd like to see us avoid," Philp said. "I wanted to see if perhaps I could speak to everybody and get something that everybody was going to agree to."And there may be another hitch in the state legislation: Late last month, the state Department of Health Services, which was charged with implementing SB 420, said it did not have the money to issue the identification cards.State Sen. John Vasconcellos, who authored the bill, said Tuesday that he is talking with state officials to come up with a solution. "My impression is that they are not unsympathetic," he said. "I'm cautiously optimistic."Source: North Coast Journal (CA)Author: Emily GurnonPublished: January 15, 2004Copyright: 2004 North Coast Journal Inc. Contact: ncjour northcoast.comWebsite: http://www.northcoastjournal.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Americans For Safe Accesshttp://www.safeaccessnow.org/Pot ID Law Sparks Criticism http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17621.shtmlPot Bill Splits Pro-Smoking Groups http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17612.shtmlState Sets Marijuana Standardshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread17583.shtml
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Comment #12 posted by Virgil on January 15, 2004 at 18:15:02 PT
Canada says testing is violation of Charter
It has only been a few years since the Canadian courts ruled drug testing a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms except in cases like truck drivers and pilots that could jeopardize public safety.Bono went to South Africa with Paul O'Neill when he was Treasury Secretary and is about to sink Bu$h's chances at re-election if he really had any. The book he had written just came out a few days ago and it has spawned much talk at DU and was the heart of Molly Ivins last article. - http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/12/thread12948.shtmlThe AIDS epidemic and the broad acceptance and prevelance of LG in South Africa and a base of some wealth with gold and diamonds to buy the 38 cent a day cocktail make it a labratory for the broad-based use of cannabis with AIDS related problems as well as another country that says leave the people alone with their laughing grass. We would not just create a problem to solve, much less create a problem that we cannot solve and exacerbates a lot of others. Look at the failure of the Americans. Just because they are mad on reefer does not mean we do not have sense.
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Comment #11 posted by DeVoHawk on January 15, 2004 at 16:50:34 PT
Drug Testing
SGD: Best I can tell the USA does over 90% of all drug testing of employees in the world.I saw Bono (U2) on TV once in a South African auto plant(perhaps it was another country it was 2 years ago) and in the break room he smelt burning cannabis. He asked the Production Manager if that was Pot and the response was that the majority of the workers smoke pot on break.Bono asked about drug testing and the manager laughed. He said if they drug tested they would have to fire the entire crew and they could never get any workers who would agree to working without smoking pot.I have tried to find figures on drug testing around the world and the only thing I can figure is that the USSA is the only country (Canada a little I think) that has citizens and courts who put up with drug testing. Notice that the positions of the greatest power in the USSA do not submit to drug testing themselves.
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Comment #10 posted by mamawillie on January 15, 2004 at 16:34:18 PT
Hummm, 5.00???
Maybe he doesn't want to be associated with 420? Is that a new policy, or was it in effect when we started this?Can they take donations from anonymous donors? Also, I wonder if they will just accept 4.20 cash if they get it?Hummm... maybe I'll have to call them tomorrow and ask...
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Comment #9 posted by Virgil on January 15, 2004 at 15:11:52 PT
momaville- It started here
"$4.20 for Dennis" appears at the bottom of both comments 8 and 11 in this thread- http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread17925.shtml It did first get mentioned in the NORML newsletter that had DK's position on LG.What killed it was his website wanted a minimum of $5.00.
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Comment #8 posted by SystemGoneDown on January 15, 2004 at 14:15:28 PT
Drug Tests
Is it really true, that U.S. is the only country that does employment drug tests?
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on January 15, 2004 at 14:15:24 PT
mamawillie
You're welcome. That was December's top article on CNews.
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Comment #6 posted by mamawillie on January 15, 2004 at 14:11:42 PT
That's it! Thanks FOM
NFM
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Comment #5 posted by FoM on January 15, 2004 at 14:03:26 PT
mamawillie 
Is this the article?http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread17917.shtml
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Comment #4 posted by The GCW on January 15, 2004 at 13:56:44 PT
He is an exposed: "counternarcotics" terroris
A "counternarcotics" terrorist.(Notice: theyr'e not prohibiting all narcotics, just the chosen.) (His expertise is in protecting the cornered market)(What happens when a "counternarcotics" terrorist falls into a pool of sharks?Nothing, professional courteousy.)
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Comment #3 posted by mamawillie on January 15, 2004 at 13:53:49 PT
Kucinich $4.20 idea... when/where did it start!
The OG community wants to link our thread about supporting Kucinich with $4.20 on to their thread, only I can't find it. It started several months ago, I think and I tried the search function but I can't find it. We talk off topic on so many of these topics, it could be anywhere.Does anyone remember where that thread is where what started off as a suggestion to send Kucinich 3.00 turned into the whole $4.20 idea? Thanks!
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Comment #2 posted by The GCW on January 15, 2004 at 13:44:52 PT
W*A*R*N*I*N*G:  SPEW.
US: OPED: A War On Drugs And TerrorAuthor: Andre Hollishttp://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04/n091/a01.html?397Global terrorism and international drug trafficking are partners. If we are to win the war against the terrorists, we must also win the war against the drug lords....... MINUS420Andre Hollis is a Washington lawyer specializing in homeland security issues. He was deputy assistant defense secretary for counternarcotics from 2001 to 2003. 
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Comment #1 posted by Virgil on January 15, 2004 at 13:15:05 PT
Prohibitionists are wearing out tolerance of them
It should be mentioned in every criticism of MLG policy, that there are plenty of people that think it should be legal anyway. To those of us that hold that position, these guys look like clowns thinking that a person's mission in life is how to split hairs. Wipe all the laws of the books and these hair splitters look as stupid to everyone else as they do me.Harry Anslinger began the stream of lies that last until this day when he testified before a Congressional committee with the words- "Marihuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."- http://www.druglibrary.org/olsen/DPF/whitebread06.html It was Hearst and his media empire that took complicity with the subjugation of freedom and made marijuana a word that now translates from Spanish into Patriotic American as demonization.The lies are quite tiring and boring now. All the research the government has done for 20 years has been to find what harm the cannabinoids might do. The only thing this tells us is that cannabinoids will define safety and that we are 20 years behind on research for what good it can do mankind.It will rock foundations that claim that they are for the benefit of people with MS, and AIDS, and the inflamatory bowel diseases, and mental disorders, and a conservative government that is on its side of the line of Constitutional powers. People will see that those that seek to control the laws and tax policy also seek to control the organizations that might expose their control of the paths to profits. Things will quake and prohibition will break.Of course, people do not want to wake up one day and find out they were wrong about something. The good thing is that when they do they make excellent testimony and have come to understand the situation now that opinion has yielded to knowledge. The big story here is we see the hair splitters just being busy. The ones that call for legalization are the ones doing the heavy lifting. Yes, hair splitters, we are laughing at you. You do not know history. You do not know the situation of the media. You do not know the present. You do not know you are wrong. I doubt you know you are being laughed at, but you are. You guys do not even know California. There was an initiative for legalization in 1972 that got one in three votes. If you want to solve the problem, then substitute regulation for x and freedom for y.
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