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Medical Marijuana Petition Filed 
Posted by CN Staff on August 26, 2004 at 08:32:28 PT
By Rob Moritz, Arkansas News Bureau
Source: Times-Record 
Little Rock -- Supporters of a proposal to legalize marijuana for medical use delivered 30,000 new signatures Wednesday and resubmitted more than 17,000 after having them notarized in an effort to get the measure on the Nov. 2 ballot. Wednesday was the deadline to submit the additional signatures.“Our canvassers worked very hard in an extremely difficult situation, with limited funds and a short period of time to gather these signatures,” said Denele Campbell, executive director of the Alliance for Medical Marijuana.
The secretary of state’s office has until Sept. 12 to count and certify the signatures, said spokeswoman Kathleen McQueen. However, she said she expects workers to complete the job sometime next week.Last month, supporters brought in about 66,000 signatures to get the measure on the ballot. The secretary of state’s office said just 29,947 of the nearly 49,000 signatures counted were certified. Just more than 17,000 were discarded because they had not been notarized.Between the new signatures and the notarized ones, Phyliss Thompson of Little Rock, owner of the company that collected the signatures, said she is confident the measure will be approved for the ballot.“This should bring us over,” she said.In July, about 60 percent of the signatures were approved. Thompson said she expects the validation rate to be much higher this time.Under the proposed initiated act, a doctor would have to sign off on the drug’s use. Eligible patients would be those with debilitating medical conditions such as cancer, glaucoma, HIV/AIDS or another chronic or debilitating disease that causes severe pain.Supporters have said the proposal would not open the door for legalization of marijuana in the state, as some critics have alleged.Under the proposed initiated act, the state Health Department would issue an identification card to patients who would be allowed to possess and use marijuana without being arrested or prosecuted for it.Individual patients or their “marijuana provider” would be allowed to possess, grow and transport marijuana legally, but not more than six plants or one ounce of usable marijuana per person. A patient would be allowed one marijuana provider, and the provider could have only one patient at a time.The Families First Foundation and the American Family Association Arkansas announced a grassroots effort to oppose the proposal if it makes it on the Nov. 2 ballot.A proposed constitutional act that would define marriage as between a man and a woman has already been certified for the ballot by the secretary of state’s office.Source: Southwest Times-Record (AR)Author: Rob Moritz, Arkansas News BureauPublished: Thursday, August 26, 2004 Copyright: 2004 The Donrey Media GroupContact: letters swtimes.comWebsite: http://www.swtimes.com/Related Articles & Web Site:ARDPark http://www.ardpark.org/ Medical Pot Backers Confident Of Success http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19391.shtmlAlliance Stepping Up Efforts for Marijuana Votehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19242.shtmlPetition on ‘Pot’ Falls Short of Names http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread19238.shtml
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Comment #29 posted by FoM on August 27, 2004 at 14:50:32 PT
I Liked This Part in the Article
In the years to come, there are going to be a lot of people in high places who grew up during a time when people were arrested for participating in demonstrations, left the country to evade the draft, had abortions and used drugs. Some will be good people, and some will be bad people. Some of the good people will have used drugs. And some of the bad people, the ones who would drive a steamroller over an elderly person to get where they are going, will be "clean as a whistle". http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0266.htm
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Comment #28 posted by FoM on August 27, 2004 at 14:33:34 PT
Hope
I think Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan together has to be an out of this world experience. Musicians were always well musicians ( by some folks in societies standards ) and weren't taken very seriously by politicians. The times they are a changin'Musicians from back in the 70s have a lot of money and have clout when they speak and sing. I can easily forget what someone says about politics but I don't forget politically oriented songs. That's why Greendale means so much to me. Not because I think Neil Young is a god or something but his message in the music of his I listen too re-enforces my own beliefs. That's why I like certain types of music. I'm glad you liked the article. I really could relate to it.
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Comment #27 posted by Hope on August 27, 2004 at 14:05:49 PT
"Reefer Test" article
It made a lot of sense.
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Comment #26 posted by Hope on August 27, 2004 at 14:03:46 PT
He's a little older than I realized
so I guess he was of that scene, too.Willie and Bob. That's just got to be a wonderful show. I read some of the reviews and it seemed like the shows must have been really fun. 
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on August 27, 2004 at 10:10:18 PT
Reefer Test
I thought this article was very good. I hope others will check it out too.       "REEFER TEST" FAILS TO TELL THE STORY -- LIFE AFTER 30 http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0266.htm
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on August 27, 2004 at 09:23:35 PT
One More Thing
I just found that Dylan is 63. He might have caught the end of the Beatnik era and maybe that's why he is so unique. His music was in transition between the beatnik and hippie eras. That could be.
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Comment #23 posted by FoM on August 27, 2004 at 09:11:07 PT
Coffee With Dylan
That would be an experience that would never be forgotten. I found what Beatniks were.***Beatniks: Derived from the term "beat", beatniks were the precursors of the hippies. This tribe included authors Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and others who believed the essence in life is to follow your desires and experience all life has to offer. The beat music scene included jazz, folk and the emerging rock music. Beatniks had hangouts like Greenwich Village in New York when they weren't "On the Road". Beatniks experimented with unusual living arrangements, drugs, and innovative art. Word attributed to Herb Caen, a San Francisco columnist describing the Beat Generation in 1958. http://www.hipmarket.com/hippy/glossary.htm
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Comment #22 posted by Hope on August 27, 2004 at 08:57:56 PT
Beatnik
I don't think he's quite old enough to be a real beatnik. He'd have to have been a really young one...like 12 or 13 years old. But that's just my view. At least what I think of as the Beatnik era. A friend of mine shared a pot of coffee with Bob Dylan years and years ago... in their youth. They sat together in a booth. It was when they were both very young. 
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on August 27, 2004 at 08:39:06 PT
Hope
One of the best parts of the Dylan Special last night was him talking to a Time Magazine reporter who was assigned to do a story about him. Dylan went on and on about perceptions of who he was and what they might write about him. How the readers of Time aren't into thinking deeply about certain issues he said but they sell magazines and he wasn't criticizing Time for that just making a point and that they don't see the world like he does. It was good. Dylan reminded me of the people from the Beatnik era. When I was young I was told not to go near the Beatnik cafe in our town. My friend and I didn't listen and went down into this basement coffee shop and ordered Espresso and watched the beatniks. They didn't pay any attention to us except a nod and a smile and went back to talking and smoking over a cup of Espresso. Dylan reminded me of that experience. Was he a Beatnik? I don't know.
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Comment #20 posted by Hope on August 27, 2004 at 08:36:08 PT
Madison, Wisconsin
They are in Madison, Wisconsin today. Jackie? Are you still there or near there? I would love to see Willie and Bob meet with the founders of Immily.
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Comment #19 posted by Hope on August 27, 2004 at 08:23:25 PT
Wow! Thank you, FoM...what a duet!
"Dylan, currently on a US tour with singer Willie Nelson"
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on August 27, 2004 at 08:15:59 PT
Hope
Look what I just found! ***Bob Dylan To Publish First Vol of His Memoires Agence France-PresseNew York, August 26, 2004 
 
 
   
  
   
  
   
  
 
  
  
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
The first volume of US folk singer Bob Dylan's memoires will be on sale from October 12, publisher Simon and Schuster said on Wednesday. Chronicles: Volume One, the first of a series of books written by Dylan, will be 304 pages long and will cover the period of his early career in the 1960s.The book's first edition will have a run of 250,000 copies.Soon after an updated version of the book Lyrics: 1962-2001, with the words to virtually all of Dylan's songs, will also be published.Dylan, currently on a US tour with singer Willie Nelson, had originally planned to publish his memoirs in late 2002. There was no reason given for the delay.
 
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Comment #17 posted by Hope on August 27, 2004 at 07:52:17 PT
"so far over my head" 
It didn't make a bit of sense to me. I'll pull it out and try to read it again someday. It was first published in 1966 and a second printing ran in 1971, apparently when my copy was printed.
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Comment #16 posted by Hope on August 27, 2004 at 07:47:00 PT
Bob Dylan
He is a timeless Soul man. I love him.I have a copy of a book, "Tarantula" that he wrote years ago. I laugh at people who can't "understand" Bob Dylan...but the book is so far over my head that it makes "House of Leaves" look like a simple read.It's the only book he ever wrote that I know of. 
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on August 26, 2004 at 19:46:19 PT
Hope
I'm sorry you missed it. I have Direct TV and it was really good. It wasn't good in the sense that he sang lots of songs but it followed Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Donovan and all Dylans people thru a time in his life in 65. It was in black and white and it was seeing how Dylan lived and thought and wrote and sang. I don't know much about Bob Dylan except his songs and some of the impact his music made on many people thru the years. My awakening to another way of life really was surrounded by Vietnam and the war and war protests and Woodstock ( even though I was never there ). Before that time I don't know much and this helped me to understand how far back our culture goes. It's really great to feel I learned more about our past and I hope you will get to see it on Dish Network. I did a search and found this letter. It really seems good to me.http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0266.htm
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on August 26, 2004 at 19:28:27 PT
can't find it
I've got Dish Network. Yours must be different. Our discovery channel is weird. It's all about motorcycles and hotrods. It didn't used to be that way. It had neat animal and nature programs. I never see those anymore.
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Comment #13 posted by FoM on August 26, 2004 at 17:07:00 PT
Hope
Bob Dylan is on Channel 285 on The Discovery Channel. So far it is good. My goodness was he young. 
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Comment #12 posted by Hope on August 26, 2004 at 16:55:47 PT
FoM, pardon me
What channel is Bob Dylan on?
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Comment #11 posted by FoM on August 26, 2004 at 15:07:11 PT
mayan
I get very worried when I hear Bush and Kerry are running equal in the polls. I don't understand how that could be! Four more years of Bush is almost too much to take.
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Comment #10 posted by mayan on August 26, 2004 at 15:02:26 PT
The Death Of Ignorance
The war on cannabis is ultimately a war on industrial hemp and medicinal cannabis. Many folks have been conditioned to believe that industraial hemp is also the dreaded "devil weed" as the government propagandists have done their job well...but their lies are being exposed and people aren't very happy when they discover the truth. Think what we've accomplished since 1996! It hasn't even been ten years and attitudes are changing due to ever-increasing enlightenment. Even AARP Magazine is going to cover medical cannabis!!! That is a clear signal that the government's dog and pony show is all but over as the fat lady is singing the final lines of this absurd drug-war opera. Martial law is the only thing that "might" stop us. I hope I'm wrong but we just might find out. 
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Comment #9 posted by FoM on August 26, 2004 at 14:37:29 PT
Yes It Is EJ
It is all about marijuana.
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Comment #8 posted by JSM on August 26, 2004 at 13:54:26 PT
Time to be heard
Does anyone else feel that a letter writing campaign to the school authorities would send a message that it is time to stop this nonsense and, as stated elsewhere here, recognize the role hemp has played in American heritage?I would be happy to participate.
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Comment #7 posted by E_Johnson on August 26, 2004 at 10:17:50 PT
FoM that little article said a lot
Hempstead IS about marijuana.It seems obvious that this town was named Hempstead because the people were farming hemp during colonial times.America has become a nation at war with its own history.Americans, ignorant and fearful of the American past.
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Comment #6 posted by E_Johnson on August 26, 2004 at 10:07:31 PT
Here's a book on their colonial history
http://www.hofstra.edu/Libraries/LISI/LISI_vignettes.cfm
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Comment #5 posted by E_Johnson on August 26, 2004 at 10:02:16 PT
Here's the town webpage
http://www.townofhempstead.com/
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Comment #4 posted by E_Johnson on August 26, 2004 at 09:57:33 PT
Check out this map!
Hempstead, Hempstead Gardens, Hempstead Turnpike, Hempstead LakeThey used to grow a lot of hemp in this region of NY, I'll bet.http://maps.yahoo.com/maps_result?ed=M7tNO.p_0TqT&csz=Hempstead%2C+NY&country=us&new=1&name=&qty=
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Comment #3 posted by Max Flowers on August 26, 2004 at 09:55:43 PT
Oh, great
Now we have school nazis targeting the word HEMP as being subversive. What idiots... it's now come full circle I suppose from them not even knowing that hemp and pot are basically the same plant, to having them associate the word hemp with "drug use".We obviously still have a long way to go, folks. 
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Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on August 26, 2004 at 09:54:58 PT
So where can we buy this shirt?
I'll bet Hempstead is an old hemp farming community from our nation's past. Am I right?
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on August 26, 2004 at 09:48:15 PT
AP: High Times Imagined in Hempstead
August 26, 2004 ATLANTA - The town of Hempstead, N.Y., has a message for Gwinnett County administrators: Before you target a student wearing a Hempstead shirt, look at a map.Terrell Jones, a student in Gwinnett County's Grayson High School, was weeded out of a classroom by a school administrator Monday because he was wearing a shirt that read: "Hempstead, NY 516," a reference to the Long Island town and its telephone area code.His family, which had moved from Hempstead to the Atlanta suburb, said the school thought Jones' shirt was a reference to marijuana. He wasn't allowed to return to class until he persuaded school officials to search the Internet for the town name."Before they would jump to any conclusions, they should be sure of what they're talking about," said Susie Trenkle, Hempstead's spokeswoman.After all, she said, Hempstead is the nation's largest township and its 759,000 population is spread out across 22 villages spanning more than 142 square miles.Meanwhile, the student's father, James Jones, said he wants an apology. Terrell Jones says he will continue wearing the shirt to school.
 Copyright: 2004 Associated Press
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