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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