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Medical Pot Law Hazy on Details
Posted by CN Staff on April 22, 2004 at 11:29:22 PT
By Michael Kolber -- Bee Staff Writer
Source: Sacramento Bee 
In the 1994 Quentin Tarantino movie "Pulp Fiction," John Travolta's character describes Amsterdam's marijuana laws: "It's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but that doesn't matter 'cause - get a load of this - if you get stopped by a cop in Amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you."The law in California is slightly more confusing.
A 1996 voter initiative, Proposition 215, allowed the use and cultivation of marijuana for medical purposes with a doctor's recommendation. The initiative protects doctors from prosecution for recommending the drug.But Proposition 215 provided little detail about how marijuana legalization would work. A 2003 law was intended to provide some of those details, but funding isn't available to implement it. The conflict with federal law, which prohibits the use and production of marijuana, is still unresolved.As cities, including Elk Grove, begin to regulate the sale of medical marijuana, many legal and medical questions remain. Here are some of the answerable ones:Q: Is marijuana legal in California?A: Under federal law, the use, possession or sale of marijuana is never legal, although the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has been ambivalent about prosecuting small marijuana producers and users.Proposition 215 legalized the use and possession of marijuana for medical purposes but said nothing about how users and caregivers were supposed to obtain the marijuana - a decision that has been left largely up to cities and counties.Snipped: Complete Article: http://www.freedomtoexhale.com/hazy.htmSource: Sacramento Bee (CA)Author: Michael Kolber & Bee StaffPublished: Thursday, April 22, 2004Copyright: 2004 The Sacramento BeeContact: opinion sacbee.comWebsite: http://www.sacbee.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmFew Complaints About Medical Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18666.shtmlCouncil Restricts Medical Pot Salehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18665.shtmlElk Grove Balks at Medical Pothttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18619.shtml
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Comment #10 posted by SWAMPIE on April 22, 2004 at 18:46:21 PT
Too much haze.....
What are these guys smokin'? We need it for everything cannnabis-usable to make the world go=round...DOH!!!!
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on April 22, 2004 at 17:55:43 PT
I Hope Others Got To See MSNBC!
They just ended the show and even showed a very pretty bud picture. I'm impressed with what the Doctor said.MSNBC - Can MJ Help Kids with ADD Countdown With Keith Olbermann 
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Comment #8 posted by mayan on April 22, 2004 at 16:59:44 PT
Obfuscation
Leave it to the presstitutes to obfuscate the issue. The simple fact is that the people have spoken very clearly. We will see this same tactic when it comes to outright legalization(which will be very soon)."But she(Hallock) said the federal government does not condone smoking marijuana for medical reasons, because much is still unknown about its effects."Even though this plant has been here much longer than we have, we still don't know what it's about? Bullsh*t! The feds know exactly what it's about and that's why they say they don't. This plant would destroy the insane profits of big pharm if word got out about it's true medical efficacy.The way out is the way in...Timeline of Tragedy - Picking up the pieces of 9/11, putting them in order, trying to make sense:
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0416/mondo1.php9/11 - Unanswered Questions:
http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=UnansweredQuestionsWhy didn't president Bush know about this?
http://www.geraldplessner.com/articles/article.cgi?doc=200404221652049/11 Transcripts and Police Reports:
http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/pa-transcripts/
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on April 22, 2004 at 15:42:30 PT
Friendly Reminder: Can MJ Help Kids with ADD 
Heads Up: MSNBC - Can MJ Help Kids with ADD Countdown With Keith Olbermann Thursday at 8 p.m. ET Can marijuana help kids with A.D.D.? Keith has the controversial story of one doctor who says prescribing pot is a good idea. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677Transcript: Hearing on Marijuana: http://freedomtoexhale.com/hearing.htmMarijuana Too Risky for Pediatric Care: http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18700.shtmlCannabis 'Scrips To Calm Kids?: http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18676.shtml 
 
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Comment #6 posted by kaptinemo on April 22, 2004 at 14:56:23 PT:
Sam Adams, it's more a matter of *who* is doing it
Obviously, organically grown foods cut into the profit margins of big combines...just as legally home grown medicinal cannabis cuts into the Big Pharma profit margins. This is the real reason why we have such as "Dr." Barthwell insisting on the parrot-phrase "21st century medicine" as barely opaque 'code' for 'Big Pharma controlled'.The pressure for change is coming in both fields from below; from the (ahem!) 'grassroots' level...from 'Us, da Peepul'. The resistance is coming from the highly centralized (and politically and monetarily incestuous) government/industrial nexus. Which must expend greater and greater force in both attempting to railroad the respective movements while at the same time convince the same, increasingly skeptical public that Polysacorbate 60 and all the other unintelligable pseudo-Latin polysyllables are "Goooooooood for you!"No thanks, "Dr.", my Mum had a garden when she was still able to work it, and I know the difference between Alar-coated veggies and Mama Tierra's natural efforts. Keep your crap off of my dinner plate and your laws off of my body, if you please.
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Comment #5 posted by E_Johnson on April 22, 2004 at 14:23:25 PT
The slow food movement is in schools now
The growing social resistance to processed food products has a name now -- the slow food movement.It's catching on in the school system because it's one thing the religious conservatives and granola eating liberals can agree on -- the kids should stop eating pizza and start eating farm fresh veggies.In two LA schools in the "inner city" such as it is for LA -- they are now bypassing the school district's unified buying program (which buys from the large processed food distributors because they offer efficiency of scale) to buy directly from local organic family farms.
So those "hundreds of chemicals" carefully crafted by millions of years of biologicial evolution still have a chance in this world.
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Comment #4 posted by Sam Adams on April 22, 2004 at 13:55:48 PT
Society of techno-purity
EJ that's exactly what bothers me. It's interesting the way society seems to be pulling in 2 opposite directions. The war against cannabis is being ramped up more than ever in history, but at the same time, it's becoming more culturally accepted and medical MJ is becoming more legal.Factory food is more prevalent every year, but the organic farming industry is taking off like a rocket.  So is herbal medicine.  I guess there's always hope!
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Comment #3 posted by Virgil on April 22, 2004 at 13:27:34 PT
Not true
Q: Is marijuana legal in California?A: Under federal law, the use, possession or sale of marijuana is never legal, although the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has been ambivalent about prosecuting small marijuana producers and users.This is not true. First you have the experimental program and its 7 survivers and then there is the ruling that says the federal government has been overstepping their Constitutional authority all these years in the desire for a total prohibition of cannabis despite the idiocy of the concept. These people should know better and I think there is a manevolence to the piece. One indication is they cannot bring themselves to call the law by its name, the Campassionate Use Act. They cannot use the word prohibition either and that is the problem with the whole subject of MMJ.
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Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on April 22, 2004 at 12:40:17 PT
Sacramento Bee is hazy on the details
They need to get a qualified science writer on the staff of that newspaper. This gibberish phrase "hundreds of chemicals" in marijuana deserves some comparison with the hundreds of chemicals in any food product made by Nature.It's those humdreds of chemcials that make food different from a nutrient pill that you buy from a corporation that produces it in a factory.In other words, those "hundreds of chemicals" in Nature-made products form the boundary between our human way of life and and a way of life where the human relationship with Nature has been industrialized and mechanized out of existence.There's way more at stake in the medical marijuana debate than the THC.There's a cultural parting of the ways at stake, there is the future of life on this planet at stake.
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Comment #1 posted by Sam Adams on April 22, 2004 at 11:45:41 PT
Perfectly clear
Prop 215 seemed crystal clear to me - if sick people's doctors recommend cannabis, it's legal for them. Period. This is one of those articles that really gets to me - another glaring example of our screwed-up, Orwellian society. What's happening here is abundantly clear, not hazy. It's a plant! The government, especially police & prosecutors, are persecuting people over it. End of story. Hundreds of chemicals, my ass. In fact, I'll bet my ass is composed of hundreds of chemicals!Run to the hills! Hundreds of chemicals are coming! We need more of your tax money! Obey!
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