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Monday, March 19, 2018

Impact of -2018 Legalized Cannabis- For Profit, Tax & Control on Real People in Medical Cannabis World

In 2018 - In the United States of America - LEGALIZED MARIJUANA means lawyers (and the elite) create tax, fee, profit, control and punitive fees and imprisonment-asset forfeiture machines -- write law to further the desires of the elite in liquor, pharma, rehab, bureaucracies, global privateers and profiteers from all over the globe.  

   People from all nations and walks of life have been using cannabis for good reasons for 10,000 years without any need for government to keep them 'safe'.

    In 2018, medical and recreational users do not need to pay two to five or ten times more for this earth given plant, in order to further enrich the lives of the elite.

     The same elite  who created and profited greatly from 100 years of 'Evil Weed' laws and Drug Wars which have destroyed the lives of untold millions of otherwise hard working, honest cannabis growers and users.

    The folks behind the commercialization, taxation and punitive cannabis laws and their funders are the same cartels in government and various liquor; pharma; petro-chemical empires who have lied for 100 years, now own major interests in most of the land and grow locations around the state and nation, to the detriment of the families who have been supplying our needs at cost ($50 to $100 per oz, top shelf) for decades upon decades.    

    Many of the at cost, medically oriented growers made about the same average wages as Uber and Other 'independent contractor' app drivers made, being about $5 to $7 per hour, while doing agriculture work for 10 to 12 hours per day,  only because The Elite snapped up all the land and had the cash to buy their permits and start up operations but they glutted the market which unjustly dropped the price per pound below true market value and below cost. 

     From late 2016 to December 2017, cost to obtain cannabis in bulk, went from about $1,800 to $2,200 per pound (top shelf, high thc/cbd) down to $500 - $800/lb. for large sections of the marketplace (i.g. the dispensaries in the bay area) and most of the medical cannabis growers took severe losses because their great medicine had to be traded at below its real cost to grow. 

    Many medical cannabis collectives had no medicine because their long time growers were now forced into poverty because they could not recoup their growing costs for the prior year.   This means they could not pay their bills, rents, storage fees, court ordered judgements, taxes, nothing. 

   The Legalization & Commercialization of Cannabis, which mostly benefits the corporate elite and causes all people to pay many times more for the simple, naturally safe marijuana which harms the vets, elders, poor, disabled and low income people in every community, the most. 

   One person we know, about 70 years old, pays almost $1,000 per month for big pharma synthetic thc capsules, which means her taxes and our taxes pay mega bucks to the pharma industry for marijuana substitutes.

      Local San Francisco - Bay Area dispensaries charge $40-$80 per one eighth (1/8 = 3.5 grams) what our Northern California at cost growers provided us with Ounces (8/8 = 28 grams) at their true cost of between $50 to $100, safely for he past several decades.

     So, may top medical cannabis growers are leaving as many 'upscaled' commercialized, for profit operations are now selling marijuana that may have been stored in warehouses for weeks or months (since the market glut) with questionable quality, but we've heard it's not being tested right now (temporary exemptions?) so,  many are paying top inflated dollars for cannabis from commercial operators.   Many are not even from California or Northern California.  

   They work for elite major corporations who care more about profits and dollars than local growers, low income patients and our health.

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Thursday, May 14, 2015

WTF! Now Twenty Four 24 Cannabis Bills Pending-CA Legislature-Most Are Elite Monopoly Makers and Destroy Collectives

      Well folks, as many of you know leaders and patients from your San Francisco Cannabis Patients' Union, Axis of Love & Other Collectives gathered together last month to talk about how we were treated last June when we fought to take down one monopoly making collective destroying Bill (AB-26 Cooley) which has been 'revived' and is now Bill Number AB-266 Cooley (and now AB-26 is a new 'other' cannabis bill by jones-sawyer).

We all discussed how insane the government is (and criminal) to one day put you in jail for cannabis and now, in 2015, they want complete control over all cannabis and hemp to make megaprofits and tax funds (for their public service-privatized for profit programs) for their major benefit, not yours!  

     Every 'for profit & tax & control' law you let them pass will DRIVE UP COSTS and reduce your rights to access and benefit from this plant that was given TO YOU - FROM NATURE, NOT MAN.  

  CANNABIS IS NOT A MAN MADE PRODUCT OR COMMODITY.  BIG BUSINESS DOES NOT OWN IT.  GOVERNMENTS DO NOT OWN IT. 

IT IS YOUR SACRED NATURAL RIGHT THAT FREES US ALL UP FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE PRODUCTS OF MAN MADE LIQUOR, PHARMA, NARCOTICS AND JUNK FOOD !

    They are passing these monopoly for profit cannabis laws to nsure that YOU, the free willed individual or your local collectives, families and communities will be forced to register and pay taxes, fees, fines and whatever THEY WANT -- if you wish to continue the 10,000+ year old safe practices, uses and traditions we've all been doing for generations.   

    Long before The Elite in Liquor, Oil, Pharma & Politics and Prison Building concocted the Great Frauds of Cannabis/Hemp Prohibition and faux Drug Wars that decimated the lives of over 50 Million Americans since 1937. 

     They owe us all Trillions REPARATIONS to all cannabis prisoners and taxpayers (who funded the elite's frauds) for the harm, home and land takings and false imprisonment carried out by the elite who took away your cannabis and hemp, in the first place under a pack of lies and by propaganda, intimidation and brute force at gun point.

     The Elite writing today's State Cannabis Laws have not changed their stripes one bit. 

  They wish to avoid accountability and responsibility for 80+ years of horrendous 'law' enforcement that was nothing more than a protection racket for the liquor, pharma and narcotics rackets which enriched all the banksters, prison builders, police unions and real estate developers and lawyers and government traitors who helped them carry out one of the longest ongoing frauds in history.

 So, after we discussed all we know about cannabis and the current state and federal governments, we decided that most of these now 24 Pending Cannabis related laws (up 3 more since last article posted a month or so ago) are detrminental to every person and patients' fundamental natural, human, civil and consitutional rights.

     We find that government should have an extrememely limited set of laws and powers to ONLY address things about cannabis that can show an immediate and great threat or harm to people or environment.  Such as laws for outdoor grows to protect us from harms caused by bad irrigation or growing methods of large grows that have been known to impact the environment.

   Laws to do with who is 'okay' to grow, use or share cannabis is the business of the adults and the local communities that are in, not the state government.   Laws to do with helping big business make fortunes on cannabis while denying the masses free and at cost cannabis and hemp is another set of frauds by the elite, being written into these pending bills in California and from coast to coast. 

   We shall oppose all such commercial enterprise laws until all bad state and federal laws have been struck down, by Ending All Prohibitions so we can start over from scratch and THE PEOPLE can chose to write the laws needed to protect ourselves.  We are smart enough, experienced enough and there are millions of us who are like minded.  

   We do not trust the lawyers, businessmen, tobacco, elite famiies like the Gettys (with Gavin Newsome fronting for their interests, not our people and patients) because they are the ones who got rich beating cannabis growers, patients and users up and they stole our homes, lands, children and assets under corrupted laws that should never have existed.

   A with our united efforts those kinds of elite written laws shall not come to pass or be enforceable because TRUTH, JUSTICE and THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE is on our side, not theirs.  All they do is fake being human and act like they care about us until they pass their laws, then they attack us with ever increasing costs, taxes, fees, fines and penalties to make sure they get paid every time we grow or consume or share cannabis.

  WHY PAY THEM AT ALL ? 

  THEY HATE US ALL AND ONLY WANT CONTROL AND OUR MONEY FOR THEIR MANSIONS AND LUXURY LIFESTYLES. 

    We have also determined the 'truth' about Who Is A Real Stakeholder when it comes to cannabis and hemp.   It's YOU, the individual adult grower, user and consumer of cannabis and hemp,  as an inherent inalienable natural human right to access ANY PLANT that comes from nature AND your doctors and healers, period.   

   GDP are The PRIMARY STAKEHOLDERS.   
  Growers, Doctors (and health practitioners) & Patients (including any human user).

 All you need to BE SAFE is for The GDP to strike down all Unjust Laws that infringe on your primary rights to access cannabis and hemp, AS YOU WISH for free or at lowest costs possible, as it was before the elite defrauded us all with their laws and bad acts and unjust imprisonments over the past 80+ years.  



So, we are writing and encourage all clear and fair minded people to write Letters of Opposition to any of these 24 Pending Bills that YOU think or feel will take away from us all and deny us our basic natural human and civil rights to access and grow cannabis as we see fit to meet our needs, not to simply fill up the for profit bank accounts of the upscaled dispensaries, rent too high landlords, their banksters and organized crime associates on the streets and inside our government who all want YOU to beg them for permission and pay them a toll to do what you've been doing with cannabis and hamp safely, for 10,000+ years, with or without 'laws'.

 Here are the 24 Bills Now Pending in California State Legislature:   

(click on the Bill Number on the left to GO TO the legislative page of that bill)

AB-34 » - Author: bonta
... with, a medical cannabis licensee to provide recommendations for medical marijuana. By broadening...
AB-26 » - Author: jones-sawyer
..., or the sterilized seed of the plant which is incapable of germination. “Cannabis” also means marijuana as defined...
AB-243 » - Author: wood
... 13276 to the Water Code, relating to medical marijuana. Medical marijuana cultivation. (1)Existing law...
AB-266 » - Author: cooley
... possession of concentrated cannabis and marijuana, cultivation of marijuana, and possession...
SB-643 » - Author: mcguire
... crimes, including possession of concentrated cannabis and marijuana, cultivation of marijuana...
AB-730 » - Author: quirk
... to transport not more than 28.5 grams of marijuana, other than concentrated cannabis, is guilty...
SB-305 » - Author: bates
.... Enhancements: concentrated cannabis. Existing law makes it a felony for a person to manufacture...
AB-258 » - Author: levine
... transplants: medical marijuana: qualified patients. Existing law, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996...
SB-303 » - Author: hueso
.... Controlled substances: destruction of seized marijuana. Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled...
AB-821 » - Author: gipson
... immediately, tax levy. Sales and use taxes: exemption: medical marijuana: terminally ill patient...
AB-849 » - Author: bonilla
... of, and the processing of, marijuana are felonies. This bill would provide that a person who extracts, or attempts...
SB-212 » - Author: mendoza
... involving the use of a volatile solvent to chemically extract concentrated cannabis occurred within 300 feet...
SB-140 » - Author: leno
... punishable as an infraction. Existing law prohibits the smoking of medical marijuana in any place where...
AB-261 » - Author: travis allen
..., marijuana. (8) Blenders, bowls, containers, spoons, and mixing devices intended for use or designed...
SB-165 » - Author: monning
... forest health by remediating former marijuana growing operations. (e)Civil penalties authorized...
SB-564 » - Author: cannella
... while possessing marijuana or an open alcoholic beverage container. (16)Section 23223, relating...
AB-897 » - Author: gonzalez
... of the Vehicle Code: retain for 10 years. (8)Misdemeanor alleging a marijuana violation under subdivision (c), (d...
AB-623 » - Author: wood
... and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs are, after marijuana and alcohol, the most commonly abused...
AB-1351 » - Author: eggman
... of the Vehicle Code, or Section 11358 of the Health and Safety Code if the marijuana planted, cultivated...
AB-92 » - Author: committee on budget
... to address environmental damage occurring on forest lands resulting from marijuana cultivation. Not more...

SB-76 » - Author: committee on budget and fiscal review
... to address environmental damage occurring on forest lands resulting from marijuana cultivation. Not more...
AB-103 » - Author: weber
... with the cultivation of marijuana. —For support of Department of Fish and Wildlife, payable from the Fish...
SB-69 » - Author: leno
... with the cultivation of marijuana. —For support of Department of Fish and Wildlife, payable from the Fish...
AB-731 » - Author: gallagher
... controlled substances except marijuana, mescaline, peyote, or tetrahydrocannabinols. (c)For purposes...
P.S. Get ready to travel to Sacramento Legislature very soon.... 

Cheers!
SF Cannabis Patients' Union Moderators

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Sunday, April 26, 2015

The Case For Reparations For Cannabis Prisoners and Taxpayers Since 1934-Prohibition, Drug War Frauds

    Here's some interesting links to information about seeking reparations for damages caused to both cannabis prisoners and unsuspecting (or liquor and narcotic inebriated) Taxpayers defrauded or harmed since 1934. 

   We were all lied to, deceived, demonized, beaten, incarcerated and impoverished (over 50 Million American Homes, Families over 80+ Years) by corrupted 'elite' individuals, families and groups. 

      We're talking about folks we trusted in power -- 'working together' inside our government and corporate offices of the banking, oil, pharma, petro-chemical, criminal narcotics, real estate (asset seizure profiteers), police and prison building industries.  

     They are The Ones, who got together, cried about not making enough sales in Hard Liquor and shared plans of political revenge against 'Southern Cotton and Hemp Farmers' so, as An Elite Group, Kings of each of their respective industries, invented the frauds of 'Evil Weed' Cannabis and Hemp Prohibitions and faux Drug Wars, in the first place.

 (1)     The Case for Marijuana Reparations - Slate

          http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/07/the_case_for_marijuana_reparations_the_profits_from_drug_legalization_should.html

 

     (2)     Michelle Alexander:  White Men Get Rich from Legal Pot, Black Men Stay in Prison 

              http://www.alternet.org/drugs/michelle-alexander-white-men-get-rich-legal-pot-black-men-stay-prison

    (3)    If the U.S. Legalized Weed, What Would Happen to Everyone in Jail For Marijuana Crimes? 

              http://mic.com/articles/86089/if-the-u-s-legalized-weed-what-would-happen-to-everyone-in-jail-for-marijuana-crimes

 

    (4)   Reparations, not incarceration

           http://socialistworker.org/2014/09/17/reparations-not-incarceration 

 

   (5)     Arguing for releasing all drug prisoners and reparations to "right the drug war’s wrongs"

           http://sentencing.typepad.com/sentencing_law_and_policy/2014/11/arguing-for-releasing-all-drug-prisoners-and-reparations-to-right-the-drug-wars-wrongs.html
 

   (6)    DEA Is Absolutely Losing the War on Marijuana Politics 

           http://blog.getmeadow.com/dea-is-absolutely-losing-the-war-on-marijuana-politics/ 

 

     (7)    The Origin of Cannabis Prohibition 

           http://the-heretical-heathen.tumblr.com/post/109694578804/the-origin-of-cannabis-prohibition

NOTE:     Back in 1913, Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon was a major financial backer and key political ally of Du Pont petrochemical company.

   Mellon also had a nephew, Harry Anslinger, whom he would later appoint to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.   But that comes a bit later.

   That should help you understand who started the frauds, who benefitted the most and a better idea of how damaging it all was to tens of millions of innocent, harmless people and families in towns and counties from coast to coast. 

     Over 80 years of fear, suffering and devastation to all of our families and communities, by specific elite families and corporations that are here today, in 2015, trying to repeat it all under new state laws, so they may continue to lie, cheat and steal from us all, for mega profits.

     Only YOU can stop them and us all from repeating the last 80 years of misery, injury and premature death by taking back all rights, benefits and freedoms to do with cannabis and hemp, back to your self and your local community, not The State.

   We've been able to verify much of this information by way of one of our peers who knew Joseph Kennedy's main liquor supplier in Mexico who was owed money for hard liquor in his Tijuana warehouse that he couldn't sell right after liquor Prohibition ended, because the masses preferred marijuana, hash and Coke Drinks (with real cocaine or opium derivatives) over hard liquor.  

   Joseph Kennedy's long time, main liquor supplier (Mario Lozano) was privy to all that went into the 'set up' of the frauds of Prohibition which entailed using MovieTone News (in movie theatres) and tax dollars to set up Fear Mongering Evil Weed campaigns to bolster their move to destroy cannabis and hemp for everyone, except the black markets under their control.

     And you know the rest of the story from there....  Millions have suffered man made diseases and toxic exposure from man made crap and died before their time, over the past 80 years -- only because liquor and pharma and narcotics and toxic chemicals everywhere that were forced upon us, by the taking away of cannabis and hemp, in the first place, by the elite mentioned herein.

     They must pay for every life taken, every family broken apart and every child taken and every minute spent in custody and for every home and car taken, by these frauds, under color of authority, since 1934, or we shall never be free from their tyranny and economic controls and enslavements.

 Moderator SF Cannabis Patients' Union

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