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City To Weigh Medical Pot Business Restrictions
Posted by CN Staff on June 06, 2004 at 13:25:40 PT
By Erin Gallup-Main, Journal Staff Writer
Source: Auburn Journal 
Police Chief Nick Willick said he doesn’t want a medical marijuana distributor near Auburn schools, churches or neighborhoods. But that could happen. That’s why he prepared a draft ordinance for the City Council to review at the first of two public hearings at 6 p.m. June 14 at City Hall.“We don’t have anybody knocking on the door …” Willick said. “Since voters voted for this (Proposition 215) and Legislature passed the law (Senate Bill 420), I want to give as much protection to the citizens as possible. If one of these businesses were to open up in Auburn, we want to have as many safeguards as the law allows, in place.”
The police chief said he is proposing an ordinance that would require medical marijuana dispensers to not only comply with business zones and health and safe codes, but limit hours of operation. The police department plans to conduct background checks on all employees working at the nonprofit businesses.Willick said distributors would not be allowed 1,000 feet from churches, schools and residential areas. And if a business applicant disagrees with the chief’s assessment of a background check, they can appeal.Placer County’s most famous medical marijuana advocate, Steve Kubby, said he is working on clearing his name from his three-year home of Canada after a 1999 Sheriff’s Department raid on his Olympic Valley home. That resulted in a felony conviction for possession of mescaline in a peyote button and a misdemeanor for possession of a magic mushroom in 2001. Convictions for marijuana possession were dropped.The former Libertarian Party gubernatorial candidate described Auburn-area law officials as “zero-tolerance bigots” on Friday and said Willick’s draft of the ordinance would only hinder the ill’s ability to medicate themselves.“None of this will stop people who want to smoke pot from smoking it,” said the adrenal cancer patient as he lit up a joint. “But it will stop the sick people who have a bona fide use for it.”Kubby said if he returned to Auburn, he would be arrested and put in jail with no access to the drug that controls his blood pressure. He said that would kill him.“(Placer County law enforcement) don’t believe in medical marijuana,” Kubby said. “They think everyone involved in it is a criminal.”But new Colfax medical marijuana store owners, Jim Henry and Cheryle Riendeau, said they’ve had good experiences with law officials in Placer County, compared to Nevada County.Nevada County District Attorney Michael Ferguson said it’s his job to prosecute those not following the law. Ferguson said the law does not allow for the sale of marijuana — only its growth by patients doctors have prescribed the medicine to.“The law isn’t clear, but in my opinion (opening a business is) illegal,” he said Friday.Placer County Undersheriff Steve D’Arcy agreed that the law is confusing.“I think there’ll be more litigation regarding whether cities can ban stores or not in the civil process,” D’Arcy said. “(Elected officials) can make regulations so difficult that it’s too expensive to operate in your jurisdiction.”He said his main concern of the store in Colfax and another in Roseville, is safety.“Just like a pharmacy, they have drugs that some people in our community would forcefully take, so I’ve talked to the owners of the (Colfax) business about security issues,” D’Arcy said.Auburn resident Adam Parham said he appreciates work that results in medical marijuana distributors. The 44-year-old said a doctor prescribed marijuana for his mother when she had cancer.“It made her feel better and kept her from (throwing up) when she was on chemotherapy,” he said. “She didn’t abuse it or get addicted to it.”However, 19-year-old Auburn resident T.J. Smith said marijuana is not beneficial.“It counteracts with (patients’) medicine they’re using,” Smith said. “It shouldn’t be legal anyway.”Newshawk: Steve Kubby - http://www.kubby.com/Source: Auburn Journal (CA)Author: Erin Gallup-Main, Journal Staff WriterPublished: Sunday, June 06, 2004Copyright: 2004 Auburn JournalContact: dericr goldcountrymedia.comWebsite: http://www.auburnjournal.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmCity Adds Medical Pot Restrictions http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18863.shtmlCouncil Restricts Medical Pot Salehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18665.shtmlThe Pot Shop - Roseville Press-Tribune http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread18294.shtml 
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Comment #22 posted by RasAric on June 07, 2004 at 14:48:03 PT
One last thing...a question (Treeanna....LMAO)
How can this "reporter/writer" begin to consider quoting some little kid who has nothing but an obviously non-educated opinion, and at the same time omit a statement from Steve Kubby's medical doctor who agrees that Steve would likely be dead if it weren't for his herbal medicine?
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Comment #21 posted by RasAric on June 07, 2004 at 13:39:28 PT
Mayan has a well established point
I know from past experience(heehee). Buds are expensive in prison but they are available(especially if youre cleared to work outside the prison:). Granted this was a minimum security establishment, but, this is happening in Maximum security places like Pelican Bay also. How you ask? Check the first link in Mayans post below. The Prison employees are all doing their part in the black market. The war breeds corruption on all levels. My point is that this is not about safety and the higher ups know this. It is Really about slavery...mental slavery. If it wasn't about mental slavery then why would officials be at all concerned about whether or not "lifers" were smoking pot as long as they aren't on the streets hurting people? It is the same on the outside. The powers that be have a vested interest in selling confusion, violence, and death. 
 
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Comment #20 posted by mayan on June 07, 2004 at 09:58:50 PT
"zero-tolerance bigots"
It looks like the city is trying to restrict the clubs out of business! When will these "zero-tolerance bigots" ever learn?The entire drug war is an utterly insane concept. If we can't even keep drugs out of our jails then how could we ever hope to keep drugs off of our streets? The supply will meet the demand even if the demand is near schools,churches,neighborhoods...OR IN JAILS!!!Medical assistant at Madison Street Jail arrested for drug distribution:
http://www.knxv.com/news/morenews/index.asp?did=10501The way out is the way in...9/11 Whistleblower Needs Your Support at Upcoming Hearing!
http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=286&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0FBI denies mishandling man who told of hijack training:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--hijackerwarning0604jun04,0,4573987.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wireMapping The Real Deal - Cui Bono 9/11?
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/51/f6/200406042049.5f158db0.htmlFormer Canadian Minister of National Defense Interviewed by 9/11 CitizensWatch:
http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=284&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0A Guide To The 9/11 Cover-Up:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/archive/scoop/stories/60/ca/200406041105.16366180.html
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Comment #19 posted by E_Johnson on June 07, 2004 at 09:17:43 PT
Virgil that story is complicated
Acrylamide seems to cause cancer as a chemical but the cancer victims this stuff should be causing seem to be missing from the demographics.It's a puzzle. The science is looking contradictory.Like with smoking pot. Tar causes cancer. There is no doubt about that. In theory, the tar in pot smoke SHOULD be causing cancer but it doesn't seem to be in reality.French fries do not seem to be creating the cancer statistics that one might naively expect given the presence of this one molecule among all the other.
Believe me, there are people researching this frantically. It's not all up the the FDA.SCientists like fried starches too. They are as worried by this as you are, even more perhaps.
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Comment #18 posted by afterburner on June 07, 2004 at 08:28:37 PT
The Kettle Is Calling the 'Pot' Black
' “Just like a pharmacy, they have drugs that some people in our community would forcefully take, so I’ve talked to the owners of the (Colfax) business about security issues,” D’Arcy said.' Willick said distributors would not be allowed 1,000 feet from churches, schools and residential areas. 'Yes, and all those pharamacies that contain "drugs that some people in our community would forcefully take" [like opiates] should also not be allowed 1,000 feet from churches, schools and residential areas. Do these restrictions apply in *your* town? I challenge you to check. And purveyers of alcohol, that promoter or violence and reckless driving, should not be allowed 1,000 feet from churches, schools and residential areas. Do these restrictions apply in *your* town? I challenge you to check. Canadian update:We filled the hill and toked away in the magic bus. To all the speakers, activists and enthusiasts, don't stop now: the Conservative Party [tough on crime] is spending lots of money to post large campaign signs in "rich country." Help the NDP candidates like Alison Myrden (Oakville riding) to get the word out! If you have a car and the time and energy, help post some more signs or canvass. 
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Comment #17 posted by OverwhelmSam on June 07, 2004 at 06:09:07 PT
Almost Forgot.
Add high level law enforcement and public officials who are fascist prohibitionists to the list. Like the sheriff in this article. Of course, if they live the perfect life, they have nothing to worry about. 
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Comment #16 posted by OverwhelmSam on June 07, 2004 at 06:04:25 PT
Let's Investigate the Representatives
Perhaps it's time to start hiring private detectives to do a little investigation into the lives of these so called representatives who are against the legalization of marijuana. The cost would be relatively inexpensive and effective for the major marijuana reform advocacy orginizations.
No one is perfect. I believe for these representatives to condemn and marginalize marijuana users by the passage of ever increasingly unreasonable laws, while they're porking prostitutes at night in their office and lining their pockets with alcohol and pharmaceutical "donations" is hypocritical and unethical. This information should be shared with the public around election time. I'm sure the public would eat it up, and the major media outlets would be all over it.If they are so insistent on busting us, we should reciprocate accordingly.
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Comment #15 posted by Virgil on June 07, 2004 at 06:02:41 PT
Feed them cancer, especially the children
Here is the second paragraph from an article at Alternet that shows the lack of concern by our FDA over cancer causing french fries. Oh, the hypocrisy- http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=18841Acrylamide, a chemical produced when carbohydrate-rich foods like french fries or potato chips are heated to very high temperatures, was discovered in 2002 by Swedish researchers to cause cancer and reproductive harm in high doses. Scientists in the UK, Switzerland, and Japan have all since reached the same conclusion. The FDA, along with the World Health Organization (WHO), considers acrylamide in food to be a "major concern." 
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Comment #14 posted by Virgil on June 07, 2004 at 04:04:48 PT
Link to Jamaica Observer article of this Monday
http://tinyurl.com/32eae
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Comment #13 posted by Virgil on June 07, 2004 at 04:02:51 PT
The right word- nutraceutical
I was reading the Jamaica Observer for any news and ran across the word I was looking for in regards to the cannabis plant as medicine because of its nutritition as food. It seems the best word for my beliefs is nutraceutical.Jamaica going after big money from locally grown medicinal plantsIsland wants its share of projected US$240 billion market BY PETRE WILLIAMS Observer staff reporterMonday, June 07, 2004
 
For years, Jamaica has been sitting on a virtual gold mine of locally grown medicinal plants that experts value in the millions of dollars, if only they could be processed for the burgeoning international market in nutraceuticals. But Jamaica has awakened from its slumber and things are about to change.
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Comment #12 posted by Virgil on June 06, 2004 at 20:02:06 PT
The Tribune Co. owns LATimes and ChicagoTribune
http://www.tribune.com/ - The Tribune Company owns the LA Times and the Chicago Tribune. They also own Newsday, The Sun, Orlando Sentenial, South Florida Sun-Sentenial, Harvard Courant, The Morning Call, Daily Press, The Advocate, and the Greenwich Time. 
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Comment #11 posted by Virgil on June 06, 2004 at 19:48:44 PT
Is it news if it is old doesn't it need 2 B true? 
They mention the LA Times at the beginning of the article at the link. QUALITIES OF LIFENot your father's marijuanaMore-potent pot might be pushing teens into treatmentBy Benedict CareyTribune Newspapers: Los Angeles Times
Published June 6, 2004
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on June 06, 2004 at 19:39:00 PT
Same One
EJ you're right. It was in the LA Times. I was going to post it but it was posted so I passed on it. http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread18734.shtml
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Comment #9 posted by E_Johnson on June 06, 2004 at 19:17:57 PT
Tell the CHicago Tribune thy have been busted!
Write the Chicago tribune and tell them:1. Reese Jones said the same exact thing in the LA Times two months ago. Did the Chicago Tribune copy this from a press release and make it sound like an interview?2. Tell them that the Washington Post did an article debunking this nonsense back on June 4, 2002 titled "The Real Dope" about how the government lies about these potency figures and they give the right figures in their story.
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Comment #8 posted by Treeanna on June 06, 2004 at 18:21:36 PT
Who the hell is TJ Smith???
Did they just hunt around for some nobody to make a negative comment, or what?They could have at least picked someone not living in thier mom's basement.
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on June 06, 2004 at 18:04:35 PT
Press Release from Bend.com
Medical Marijuana Clinics Monthly in Bend  
    
 From Bend.com news sourcesSunday, June 6, 2004 June 6 - Many of the 8,975 patients now legally registered with the Oregon Medical Marijuana Program report that marijuana works for them when other remedies have failed. Numerous patients state that marijuana does not have the negative side effects experienced by the use of some prescription drugs. Debilitating medical conditions that qualify for OMMP are:(a) Cancer, glaucoma, positive status for immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or treatment for these conditions;(b) A medical condition or treatment for a medical condition that produces, for a specific patient, one or more of the following:(i) Cachexia;(ii) Severe pain;(iii) Severe nausea;(iv) Seizures, including but not limited to seizures caused by epilepsy; or(v) Persistent muscle spasms, including, but not limited to, spasms caused by multiple sclerosis.Voter Power, the state’s largest medical marijuana advocacy group, will be holding medical marijuana clinics once a month in Bend, as well as Portland, Eugene and Grants Pass. For more information, or to make an appointment, call Voter Power at 541-298-1031 or send an email to: clinic voterpower.org http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view%5E3Far_id%5E3D15981.htm
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Comment #6 posted by Virgil on June 06, 2004 at 18:00:20 PT
Chicago Tribune shouts new potency and dangers
The Chicago Tribune pays homage to garbage journalism with this piece today- http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/nearwest/chi-0406060520jun06,1,3540086.story?coll=chi-newslocalnearwest-hed Here is what 4 paragraphs of garbage look like."But there's stuff out there now that's 10, 20, even 50 times as potent we could get for research in the '70s," said Dr. Reese Jones, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. "It's like studying the effects of high doses of alcohol using 3.2 percent beer. Now, marijuana is more analogous to 100-proof vodka. Not every kid's getting that, but the ones who do and come into treatment will get sick when they go off the drug. And when you give them marijuana, they feel better."Effects on the bodyDoctors only vaguely understand how marijuana affects the body. It can act as a stimulant or a depressant. It eases pain, as opiates do, but it can also increase anxiety and induce paranoia. Its most psychoactive ingredient, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, acts throughout the brain, and the plant contains hundreds of other chemicals whose effects are unknown.Using brain-imaging technology, scientists have shown in recent years that THC is especially active in the cerebellum, which helps regulate movement, and in the frontal cortex, the part of the brain that enables us to make judgments and inhibit impulses."These findings can help explain how chronic marijuana use causes some behavior changes--such as why intoxication can lead to automobile accidents," said Volkow, who did some of the imaging research.
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Comment #5 posted by RasAric on June 06, 2004 at 14:49:16 PT
Whoa!!! Stop The Press!!!!
 TJ Smith, the Official Bedwetting Resident of Auburn, A.K.A. GOD has just spoken. Let us be silent for a moment ladies & gentlemen so that we may fully absorb the light that shineth upon ourselves from his Holiness, Mr....er was that "Dr." T.J. Smith
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Comment #4 posted by E_Johnson on June 06, 2004 at 14:07:39 PT
T.J. Smith is a famous world authority
Yes. the Auburn Journal just quoted him again:"The moon is made of green cheese," said T.J. Smith, world famous authority on everything everyone else only THINKS they know.
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Comment #3 posted by global_warming on June 06, 2004 at 14:06:36 PT
Yup, it says so in the bible...
"However, 19-year-old Auburn resident T.J. Smith said marijuana is not beneficial."They are looking for some new prison guards in Iraq, damn young fool.
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Comment #2 posted by Virgil on June 06, 2004 at 13:51:52 PT
Clinton video is at C-Span2
A search for Clinton at C-Span will give these results- http://tinyurl.com/2wddf - and the video from Chicago is the third one down.
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Comment #1 posted by Virgil on June 06, 2004 at 13:47:35 PT
That 19 year-old straightened Kubby alright
However, 19-year-old Auburn resident T.J. Smith said marijuana is not beneficial.“It counteracts with (patients’) medicine they’re using,” Smith said. “It shouldn’t be legal anyway.”How did they find this one. It is kind of funny that it was Drug Bizarre McCafreak that said a person is entitled to their own opinion but not there own facts. The next thing to see is if they ask this kid about Catholicism so the Pope might learn something.There is a big picture event where Clinton spoke in Chicago to tell of his book titled "My Life" that will be released on June 22 which seems to be the date the Greendale DVD will be released. His first big applause came at the 31:17 mark when he said "...politics is not religion and we should govern on a basis of evidence and not theology." - javascript:playClip('rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e060304_clinton.rm?start=1:00.0')
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