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Lockyer Medical Marijuana Task Force! 
Posted by FoM on July 18, 1999 at 09:37:46 PT
Compiled by Californians for Compassionate Use
Source: Marijuana.org
HOT NEWS from Sacramento: SB 848 may be dead. A Davis Spokseman said Gray won't sign SB 848 because it would be a declaration of war from Sacramento to Washington and that he's not gonna play federal law challenger as Governor.
We applaud this wisdom. Prop 215 is legal but exploits a loophole in federal law (medical necessity on an individual level is a protected federal doctrine). For Sacramento Politicians to make a mockery of that very specific point was entirely painful for a lot of us to have to watch. Thank You Gray Davis. We hear additionally that Vasco didn't take the news so well (major physical breakdown, violence, bad language -- the works.) We are sorry his time was wasted by the Big Guys in the Attorney General's Office. We still hope to work with the Legislature in November and December of this year and the first half of next year to pass a real simple sales law or a contingency rescheduling law. But both our proposals will get lots of hearings they will be rock solid and so simple that anyone will understand them at a glance. The long awaited text of SB 848 -- The Lockyer Medical Marijuana Task Force Report made into law. Read for yourself, is this bill what you envisioned when you voted for Proposition 215 or is this bill a really bad nightmare? (Check out the parts that the legislature crossed out, it's very telling.) By the way, we went to Sacto Tuesday (7-13-99) to testify against SB 848 and twenty patients were denied the right to speak. This bill has had zero input from law-abiding patients. SB 848 is a nazi style attack on medical marijuana and patients rights and democracy itself.It now goes to Assembly Appropriations Committee.We’ll be there!!Californian's For Compassionate Use:http://www.marijuana.org/http://www.marijuana.org/SB848July91999.htmhttp://www.marijuana.org/PRLockyerRecs.htmlBreaking News: SB Bill 848 May Be Dead - 7/14/99http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread2045.shtmlCannabis News Medical Marijuana Archives:http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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