The Stand of Many Cannabis Patients On Some 21 New State Cannabis Bills Pending-California-SFCPU

After spending many years using, growing, living with and researching cannabis and hemp, many of us have boiled down all the 'interests' and arguments, propaganda and facts down to some very simple core issues.

    One important issue or condition we've uncovered involves two 'groups' who are competing to be able to access cannabis and another group trying to gain upper hand control over cannabis and tell us all who can do what, when with cannabis.

    We call these two groups Primary (must have) and Secondary (nice to have but not necessary for us all to enjoy benefits of cannabis freely, at cost, not for profits or tax fund or agency and fee building) Stakeholders.

    After much thought and consideration, we've joined the ongoing Email List discussions going on amongst many Primary (necessary) Stakeholders of Cannabis and Hemp, being the Growers, Doctors (and public health interests), Patients (and end users) which are the folks we've known for decades and generations.

    The Primary Stakeholders being the only ones essential to further our pre-existing 10,000+ year old natural and human rights to cannabis and hemp, safely, as we've been doing for generations.   This includes common folks growing, sharing, exchanging cannabis and hemp for health, healing or survive on (family or community benefit) but not large scale commercial operations for corporate profit or government revenues.

    Also in this email group are Secondary Stakeholders, who wish to cash in or profit from the pre-existing rights of us all, as a business or tax agency concern for their own benefit.

   As long as all the rights and benefits of cannabis and hemp are fully in the hands of the Primary Stakeholders,  other lesser Stakeholders or 'for profit' operations may do as they wish as long as the rest of us are free to do as we wish, with basic, non-man made processed or value added cannabis and hemp, without being forced to fund their for profit operations, unless we choose to.

   Go Here to SEE All The Cannabis related Bills in our California State Legislature right now.    If you Oppose Any Bill, Please Write A Letter of Opposition to the State Assembly Committee or Group that's reviewing the Pending Bills, as they move around the State House and Senate. 

     If YOU do not oppose them, they will be express passed to enrich the elite to our risk, peril, burden and harm.   We shall pay for the caviar and wine of the elite unless we OPPOSE all unjust bills before they become law (new frauds).

   Look for the links to SEE all the bills pending on this blog page:

    https://sfcannabispatients.blogspot.com/2015/03/alert-17-cannabis-bills-now-pending.html

   OR, the updated ( April 7, 2015) Blog Article Link here:

   https://sfawareness.blogspot.com/2015/03/now-18-cannabis-bills-pending-ca.html

   You may also wish to Join the Group 10,000 Cannabis Patients From Northern California:   
     https://www.seen.is/group/7921

   So, here is the latest and first 'position' posting we've made to this Cannabis 'law' related EMail list that's passed amongst various patients, patient groups, collectives, growers, health professionals and at cost dispensaries and others 'for profit' folks involved with pending cannabis and hemp bills, in the California State Legislature, now:

Excerpt:

From:  SFCannabisunion@zoho.com

 Date:  Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:27:41 -0700
    Re:  Where do you stand on 643

Everyone:

Thanks for keeping everyone updated, Shona. 

   The SFHomeless group moderators have been forwarding us copies of these pending cannabis bill messages.   I'm meeting with patients and group leaders tonight and will write back feedback tomorrow.

   As many of you know,  generally speaking most of our peers are against any new state laws that:

  (1) Do not go directly to reducing a real harm or risk to people and environment that is great and 'provable' based on facts, science, reliable studies or

  (2)  Denies any patient or person in need the right to grow or obtain cannabis for free or at cost  or

  (3) Creates any government agency or authority that seeks to control or tax basic cannabis that is not being sold or used as a commercial for profit enterprise OR that creates elite monopolies or sends any person to jail for cannabis related activities not involving harm to others or other crimes such as theft of cannabis, or


  (4) Causes any undue burden or harm or denial of access to any person who seeks to use cannabis for any good purpose for personal, family or community group uses.

  (5)  And, we seek an end to all prohibitions, drug wars and other frauds that have plagued us for 80+ years causing misery to tens of millions of families from coast to coast to enrich the elite in liquor, pharma, textile, petro-chemical and prison building and government agency making industries for mega profits.

  (6) And, we seek Damages for 80+ years of organized fraud in the form of Two Demands.  One for the Cannabis Prisoners and a Second for the Taxpayers who were deceived and defrauded that funded the Evil Weed Campaigns and crimes of the elite who stole our cannabis by lying and foisted liquor, hard drugs and corruption into our minds for generations.   Causing millions of homes, cars, families and children to be seized by unjust corrupted laws that had nothing to do with reducing harm, saving lives or keeping us all safe. 

These are some of the general concepts, facts and principles upon which we stand, in truth.   We're not here to pass laws that enable the Criminals in Cannabis to move onto being our Cannabis Kings, until their debts to all of us are PAID IN FULL !

  Do not forget that while our people, en mass, were eating moldy ham sandwiches in jails and prisons for non-violent cannabis crimes, The Elite were dining on caviar and wine, as they and their pawns in government and private corporations were taking over millions of homes, sticking our children into state contracted foster homes, doping them up on pharma drugs, selling off all your cars and family assets.

   The same elite are now underwriting most of these laws and you must oppose any laws that do not protect US the common people or that unduly enrich corporations, banks or government agencies because NONE OF THEM ARE WORTH OUR TRUST, EVER AGAIN, based on their conduct over the past 80 years.

  BOTTOM LINE:

Cannabis & Hemp are either gifts to us all from nature, and as such belong freely to us all or not.   Everything else that runs contrary to this basic, natural human right is likely a lie being told to enrich or empower 'some of us', not 'all of us'.

Peace Out

J. Leonard
SF Cannabis Patients' Union

On 4/25/15 12:15 PM, Axis of Love SF, Shona Gochenaur wrote:

Hey SF folks,

I am reading McGuire 643, and I see allot of room for amends and alot of unintended consequences. I would like some feedback from business owners, workers and growers, and ofcourse patients.

It takes out via zoning residential growing, which is right next to it dismantle sb 420, which equals taking allot of your craft medicine, of the shelves. Its clear cut,once again of the medical cannabis that your patients consumers are seeking, please review this bill with your legal consulting team, this limits your business.

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4 20 Day In San Francisco Reality Check - We Stopped Cleaning Because Police Rushed In Prematurely

Glorious 4/20 Day in San Francisco.   Because of the work done over the past 80+ years of folks who put freedom, lives and natural human rights ABOVE man made poisons, bad laws and toxic industries that kill.     For 10,000+ Years humans (and some animals) and nature have enjoyed many benfefits of cannabis and hemp without causing any great harm or death to any one.

     In fact, the only ones harmed by the frauds of Prohibition and Drug Wars has been about 50 Million Americans who lost their homes, families and freedoms over cannabis.

   But, that was only 'because of the unjust laws' (not their own harmless conduct) that were  passed to favor the Corporate King Families of Big Oil, Liquor, Pharma, Privatization, Prison Building and Huge Law Enforcement Agencies and Departments -- all working together to destroy the lives of anyone who doesn't give up cannabis and hemp for Prozac, Jack Daniels, Heroin, Nylon and premature death by mass media induced suicide.    One of the longest running and most expensive (in terms of money and lives and time lost) in the history of our nation.  

   If I could choose between a cop holding a gun on me at a rally who smoked a joint versus one who just polished off his last hit of crack or gin bottle for the day....  I'll take the pot head cop over the totally out of control, nervous system fried Alcohol or Narcotic Cop any day.

   This is about reality.    Our legal team finally made it down to 4/20 at Golden Gate late in the day and what we saw looked fine.    Tons of people leaving.... who had been there all weekend and it was easier to find other peers as the afternoon went onward to the eve.

   There were a few quick outbreaking fights between mostly young folks (drinking alcohol) and that caused folks to have to pick up and run fast to avoid being mobbed by the fight or the onlookers.   Then after those minor disturbances went by, many of us were still saying hello to folks we had not seen in months or years and lots of individuals, couples and families were cruising around picking up trash and piling it up as best they could.

   If the city, knowing almost exact volumes of average trash left by previous years' 4/20 had put out enough trash bins,   the cost of cleanup would have been dropped significantly and reduced the negative 'trash' bias local mass media pawns are regurgitating with the usual whiners....  but, folks were doing as best they could given their relaxed states of mind.

  Then, from our perspective right at Hippie Hill, we saw several ATV Riders with uniforms (all uniformed officers look threatening to the masses while they are in social settings, relaxing and see them come up all of a sudden) coming into the area from the east and we could see 'waves' of people in the dense masses 'reacting' to their sudden presence. It was like they came to push, control or exert some force or authority long before everyone was finished meeting, greeting, partying, packing out and cleaning up their affairs of the day.

  Then, someone, likely suffering PTSD from past encounter with uniformed officers (as in being beaten for no just cause by bad, violent ones in SFPD, for example) and likely having been drinking threw the bottle that hit one of the uniformed people that triggered a 2nd wave of uniformed ATV Riders (SFPD suited up this time) to storm in... and saw police movements all around the perimeters which caused most folks to feel bad, stop their partying, socializing and cleaning and take off before being potentially harassed or harmed by the premature, overwhelmingly expensive police.

   We all noted that had we all been left alone for the eve, most of the trash would have been taken out or stacked around the few trash bins that were put out and droves of recyclers, ground scorers (if you don't know what tens of thousands of folks in cities do every day, we can't help you...), volunteers and partiers would have had all night and the early morning to make most of it disappear, right before everyone's stoned eyes... because when we are given sufficient resources (i.g. trash cans, bins, portable bathrooms) we use them and use them well because we have pride and love our city.

    But, what a double edged sword. When the city fails to provide us with resources or tries to control or end our free willed partying, celebrating and socializing according to their will and agendas (prematurely),  then the mass media and whiners get busy to make it all seem like the fault of The People.   Which its not.

   Short-sided control freaks who are out of control and jump the gun and make mountains out of mole hills (for personal and group gains...) are THE PROBLEM.   Like the folks trying to KILL OUR GOLDEN GATE AND THE HAIGHT by stealing the MUNI 21 Bus Line.

Look at the Big Picture Folks. Sit-Lie, Gentrification, Privatized Upscale Buses all go to DESTROYING OUR CITY so banksters and east coasters can remodel it into their choke and die business models of New York and other commercialized to death metro areas.

They want their petro-chemical, hand held devices, machines, corporate cultures and material objects to take the place of our human cultures and natural rights and constitutional rights to live freely not as subjects of tyrants and mad men.

HAPPY 4/20 EVERYONE!

From The Moderators of the San Francisco Cannabis Patients' Union

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