Nearly 13 Years After Prop. 215, Law Enforcement Still Resists Medical Marijuana

California’s citizens and legislators may be at the vanguard of America’s progressive cannabis policy-making, but, unfortunately, many in the law enforcement community in the Golden State are still uncomfortable with–and resistive of–the will of the voters (their employers) when it comes to physician-sanctioned, patient access to medicinal cannabis.
A ‘white paper’ released to California law enforcement (including prosecutors) in late April by the California Police Chiefs Association is just now being seen by the general public and the cannabis law reform community, and the paper once again reinforces the clear intent of the law enforcement community to continue leading the charge in maintaining the status quo of cannabis prohibition.
By any fair measurement, law enforcement is unrivaled in serving as one of the five pillars of cannabis prohibition.
Read the CPCA report here.
In response, later this summer, the NORML Foundation will publish a definitive legal guide to medical cannabis for practicing lawyers and medical cannabis dispensaries. Additionally, NORML seeks to provide complimentary copies of the guide to all of the public defenders’ offices in California.

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  1. Is there anyway to file a lawsuit or some kind of legal challenge against the California Police if they do violate the state law? Or do they get to claim the federal law trumps the will of the voters without recourse? Sickening if the latter is the case.

  2. Are these tools serious? somebody needs to crack down on these crooked cops.
    oh i like how under “liability” they threaten politicians.

  3. Of course most cops want prohibition. Cuz most cops are a bunch of small pricked bastards. Where im from violent people especially if the suspected of carrying a gun are left alone. Our pigs love bustin smokers cuz they go down easy. You can definatly see a clear pattern emerge. Cops dont want to fight and possibly get shot. They scared. So if there is prohibition they can womp stomp all the non violent stoners they can handle. Go home and masturbate safely to mister rogers neighborhood or whatever it is they do when they aint bullying harmless folks.

  4. It will be very interesting to see how the law enforcement community of California reacts to NORML’s legal guide. Will they try to ban it or somehow keep it from the public defenders and other lawyers? Is there any recourse that the public can use to make these people conform to the will of the people. If they continue to buck the system that they are supposed to be working for can they be terminated? Who holds authority over these rogues?

  5. Thank God for Indica, otherwise the incessant incompetence of law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels would drive my stress levels through the roof.
    Metallica said it best in “…And Justice For All”
    Lady Justice Has Been Raped
    Truth Assassin
    Rolls of Red Tape Seal Your Lips
    Now You’re Done in
    Their Money Tips Her Scales Again
    Make Your Deal
    Just What Is Truth? I Cannot Tell
    Cannot Feel

  6. This legal guide will make a difference, I am sure of it. It would be great if NORML could have a magazine that could be sold in all major grocery/retail stores. It would catch a lot of eyes, and spread.
    Peace!

  7. As long as marijuana remains illegal at the Federal level, State and Local law enforcement will have this toe-hold. Even though the DEA may not be raiding dispensaries and cooperatives, they donate a great deal of money to State and Local law enforcement to enforce marijuana prohibition and fund eradication. Until Federal law is changed there will be this conflict.
    How is the Decrim bill going in Congress? I’ve e-mailed, written and called my representative. Where can I find out more about the progress of this bill?
    Thank you Allen for sending the link to the 5 pillars. In a very short read puts in black and white what we’re up against. I’m looking forward to seeing what NORML publishes as a legal guide.
    I look forward to seeing you all at Seattle Hempfest!
    And please, keep donating to NORML!
    Johnny D
    [Editor’s note: Currently the federal decrim bill has about 10 co-sponsors, and House leadership indicate that the bill will not likely get a subcommittee hearing until mid fall. This interim period of time allows supporters of reform to recruit as many co-sponsors as possible.
    Federal legislation (in this case, H.R. 2943) can be tracked at http://thomas.loc.gov/ or via the ‘Contact Officials’ link on the front page of norml.org]

  8. This is an uphill climb, all the way. Cowards to the rear, brave hearts to the front !!! Morons are their own worst enemies, let them answer to the Lord Jesus Christ, Lets see them try to bullshit him !!!

  9. Is there some reason I’m not aware of why JURY NULLIFICATION wouldn’t work to end a case against you? According to jury null. you could be in direct violation of the law and if the jury finds the law to be unjust, or the punishment to that offense to be too severe, isn’t the option for nullification still available? Many would argue that it is a very important part of the court system.

  10. Notice that in the actual white paper, despite the statement “Identifying and thanking everyone who contributed in some way to this project would be well nigh impossible…”, the first few pages are nothing but pats on the back to each other. Funny…
    DEA: “Ich ben ein ShutzStaffel!”

  11. I really dont think the everyday city cop will understand this White Paper, they will just take as the law doesnt matter when you dont like the law, thats how they are doing it now anyhow so what is this going to change?
    This is full of Reefer Madness, it offers no medical evidence or true real world studies, it offers no understanding, or no other options, it just spreads more lies and more hate of medical marijuana and its users. So this is a “hate Speech” paper, its Discrimination period!

  12. Again, it would be laughable, if it weren’t for the fact that they probably believe this BS. Same old exagerated problems are stated, and again they want to base marijuana prohibition on these same old, lame, exagerated reasons. The stinking oinkers, need to stay out of the business of making law and stick to enforcing the law. California law I would presume, unless they are federal agents. And why in the hell are they using public money to do all the coniving and cavorting they are doing? In the name of public good? Of protecting our youth?? Not hardly… They just want to keep those funds coming and keep their hold on power.

  13. Response to Chris P.: There is always recourse… The founding fathers were wise with regard to their knowledge that governments can become tyranical and beyond the control of the citizenry that elected it…
    Thats why there is the 2nd amendment 🙂

  14. The five pillars of Marijuana prohibition seem pretty daunting ……. too bad we only have the truth on our side.

  15. well we know who the real crimnals are .will it take a armed rebellion ?to stop these dispicable pfoffiters in human misery .to stop arresting sick people.

  16. #1. Chris P. Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 10:14 am
    Is there anyway to file a lawsuit or some kind of legal challenge
    against the California Police if they do violate the state law?
    Or do they get to claim the federal law trumps the will of the voters without recourse?
    Sickening if the latter is the case.
    RE:
    – Sickening is the “T” word,
    (Both the verb and the proper-noun…
    Sorry, Donald…).
    – The federal-gov’t does NOT have the authority to regulate nor supercede a STATE’s
    medical-practices / medical-laws. The focus of the federal CSA is on non-medical
    “recreational” use, not medical.
    – Recent SCOTUS decisions / actions:
    Medical-Marijuana IS the LAW:
    “The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up
    San Diego County’s challenge to state medical marijuana laws…
    …In other words,
    the oft-heard prohibitionist refrain that federal law
    trumps state medical marijuana laws
    has no legal merit.”

    RIDGE MEDICAL POT GROWER’S
    RIGHT TO SUE SHERIFF’S OFFICE UPHELD

  17. The question I want answered is simply, “Why?”. Why do law enforcement officals want to keep marijuana out of the hands of the sick and dying?
    Where is the pressure to keep marijuana a Schedule I substance really coming from?

  18. This part is hilarious:
    E. POISONINGS
    Another social problem somewhat unique to marijuana dispensaries is poisonings, both intentional and unintentional. On August 16, 2006, the Los Angeles Police Department received two such reports. One involved a security guard who ate a piece of cake extended to him from an operator of a marijuana clinic as a “gift,” and soon afterward felt dizzy and disoriented.
    The second incident concerned a UPS driver who experienced similar symptoms after accepting and eating a cookie given to him by an operator of a different marijuana clinic.
    LMAO… it reminds me of that 911 call from the cop that made and ate pot brownies with his wife and thought they were dieing.

  19. Umm, isnt that what the 2nd amendment was made for? Right to bear arms and defend against both domestic and foreign enemies.
    These cops who arrest knowing its legal in the state, are domestic terrorists and don’t truly represent the free rights of our country. They are traitors and need to be punished in any way possible.
    Our country put measures in place to make sure this doesn’t happen, but its happening, and if we don’t do something about it, we forfeiting our rights.

  20. That shit makes me sick to read, I had a “I just ate 5 Warheads” look on my face the whole time I was reading the .pdf file. So much for “we don’t write the laws, we only enforce them”. excuse my french but SUCK A DICK PIGS (no offense to the cops out there who are actually supporting the will of the voters). Medical is here to stay and soon everyone will be puffing legal herb so if arresting stoners and patients is your hobby and sport enjoy it while you can *waves the birdy*

  21. That is me in your wheelchair there by the way.
    I can even see my initials E L O within the blatant scenario!
    Now that’s quite a poster child to society.
    I hope they’re proud of themselves now.
    NORML I DO HEREBY GRANT AUTHORITY TO YOUR AGENCY TO DEEM AS PROPER AND GRANTED RIGHTS TO FIVE MILLION DOLLARS WHICH IS AN AGREED TORTE SETTLEMENT BETWEEN
    MYSELF;
    WENDY RENAE WARR ELORRIAGA, A U.S. CITIZEN FROM THE AMERICA PUBLIC OF THE NEW REFORM.
    WE DO NOW HEREBY OVERTHROW OUR SANCTIONS
    TO THE CORRUPTION AND LIES OF THE U.S. DEMOCRACY
    I DO HEREBY COMMIT MYSELF FROM NOW AND EVER MORE
    AN OUTLAW TO SOCIETY. ANY MEANS DEEMED
    APPROPRIATE FORWARD AND HEREWITH SO BE IT.
    IN THE NAME OF ALMIGHTY GOD TODAY I OVERTHROW THE
    GOVERNMENT.
    I WILL NOT BE A PART OF THIS HOLLOCAST! AMEN.

  22. NORML – I pro se’d my civil federal case to the Denver, Colorado; U.S. District Circuit Court of Appeals.
    Although their expedited decision took a grueling nine months to have been reached it again lacked the evidence they are still sitting on.
    They are still concealing my hard evidence of attempted murder, kidnap and rapes of myself and of my family.
    I was brick-walled from obtaining the jury trial transcript in Salt Lake City in I believe 2002.
    I was at the Supreme Court Level but again I was brick-walled from obtaining their documented B.S.
    I am sincere.
    Can you please help me here?
    Am I just another dead duck in the water?
    Wendy ReNae Warr Elorriaga
    I am an officially disabled S.S.I. human being.
    Please advise.
    They put me in this wheelchair and covered it all up.

  23. SICKENING IS A GOOD WOOD TO DESCRIBE THE STATE IF OUR COUNTRY. WHERE PEOPLE ARE ENSLAVED TO INSURE CORPORATE PROFITS.
    CFJ

  24. these days everything trumps the will of the people,right down to govenors who think they can force thier moraal will on people.

  25. I would think that the Calif. police should be working for the people of Calif., not the Federal Govmt.

  26. It’s ashame that these people are so disallusioned as to think that the entire world would end if sick people had access to medicine.
    The police mentality of marijuana is evil and constitutes more than just a marijuana bust, but something much more insidious, something evil. They might not be able to put their fingers on it, but they’ll take your house, your kids, your car, just to stop you.

  27. After reading that report it seems to me that the recent supreme court decision against San Diego and San Bernardino kind of renders everything said in this report as possibly a moot point now.

  28. good idea CA…drive your state debt into the hole a bit more by bogging your justice system down with some of these hard criminals…….makes no f’n sense, but hey, what does anymore?

  29. After the last few months I have been keeping up with the war on drugs and it seems to me that there is a basic fix stop focusing on arresting every tom dick and harry who go out to pick up a few grams of this stuff and go after the dudes bringing in pounds of it, I am a heavy believer in Legalization for one major reason, We are US citizens we have the right to seek out our own happiness without worry about government or other people harassing us, by all means if someone decides to use a substance to alter their state of being and commit a crime against another person or someone else’s property put em in jail, rehab, purgatory whatever floats your boat, not for using the substance but for being an idiot and hurting someone or destroying something, it won’t work I have heard if you go and drink yourself stupid you wont go to jail until you try to drive or start acting like an idiot? If that works then why cant it work for any substance. This way all the money stays in the US, Mexico will then have to find another border to destroy, and all trafficking into the US will come to an end if we make the product and offer it for sale to our citizens. Once it is on the open regulated market prices will drop, everyone and their mothers will be trying to make a profit on it and only way to make profit is to sell the stuff at better prices than the guy down the street.
    We are loosing our families in this war and I would rather see a family member in rehab than loose the ability to get scholarships, loose all hope of getting any licenced job, ( yeh billy smoked some dope he cant cut hair ) Loose housing benefits and theoretically loose their lives at the range of 16 – 20, not to mention the law and military forces we loose when they actually find a real dealer or trafficker and aren’t breaking into an 72 yr old woman’s home giving her a heart attack and having her death on their hands.
    Common Sense is the number one thing needed in this country, we are spending trillions not only in our nation but in others as well fighting the same war and the only difference that it has honestly made is instead of the dealers selling the weak stuff now they have a whole new grade of stuff to sell. Come on America please just open your eyes for an hour enough to read the basic facts.

  30. The truth though is:
    “Supporting marijuana PROHIBITION is an example of domestic terrorism—it puts the public at great risk and threatens the very fabric of our society.”

  31. It’s pretty clear to me, as a legal user in the San Diego Area, that I can never trust a cop.
    My people voted in favor of people like me. Cops have been sore losers for 13 years.
    I enjoy my life but I wish I could stand up to these crooked law-breaking greedy sell-out cops without fear of being taken from my wife. They deserve to be literally yelled at for days by people like me until they crack. They deserve to hear the screams of the family members left so heavily burdened because some crooked cop doesn’t like the law.

  32. Good Morning:
    #2 – Dave – Did you say, “tools” (tooele, ut) or my kind Sir Did You Say, “FOOLS”?
    #3 – Non-General Jake – Yes they are pigs indeed.
    They only have .1% mentality going on upstairs unlike many of the rest of us.
    Good point about how “go down easy” is their motto.
    Does anyone remember the story about Jesus casting devil into a herd of pigs?
    The animals ran into the river and drowned themselves.
    Amen.

  33. California is broke and these idiots continue to waste money they don’t have??? How stupid is that? Maybe they ought to pay the cops’ salaries with IOU’s the banks won’t cash to drive the point home on how irresponsible and stupid this is.
    Since the cops want to dictate medical policy, maybe we ought to ask doctors on how to conduct law enforcement business.

  34. #8 – Joe – Brilliant! RIGHT ON! Where have you people been all of my life anyway?
    I am being flooded with propaganda again.
    The use of our Dear New President Obama’s good name is in an ongoing smear campaign.
    It goes like this:
    “Obama’s plan to save your house. . . . . . . . .

  35. #16 fedUp – Hear Here Amen!
    F…the
    Feds…(the stupid ones)
    Forever. Amen.
    G-r-r-r-r…..an….ola!
    Wheaties
    We Tee-Hees Tee-Hee Tee-Hee Ha Ha
    We Tease (not)
    Weed Ease…oh now I may have it. Amen.

  36. FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS on 20 Neurogenesis1:29
    The California Police Chiefs Assoc. has always, from day one, been a thorn in the California justice system.
    They have always attempted to undermine the law with their de facto crap! But guess what…it’s all talk.
    FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS on 20’s post.
    We in California ARE NOT GOING TO LOSE because of some small group of over zealous ?????????
    EELAX RELAX RELAX IT’S NOTHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT! Things are moving along quite nicely. But, if you want to make waves over this issue…directing those who have still not got the picture to this BLOG,
    should help to convince them that their supporting evil. Look! The number in favor of “legalizing” medical cannabis is about 85% in California. That’s up 5% since the last poll. That only leaves 15% who still resist the facts, the truth, and the will of the people. 15% doesn’t qualify as an earth shaking number. Remember…we can totally disregard 10% of the 15% leaving only 5% to sway our way.
    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, and again, and again, ad infinitum. We must get the Data Quality Act codified, and we must lean on the President’s Memo to Executive Department Heads, and Agencies. We must stop the flood of false information disseminated to the public. Not only that, these two advantages would cause who ever is disseminating that information to go back a correct the information. It would make them “EAT THEIR WORDS.”
    So! once again! FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS
    Frankly…I think a Petition Mandamus is in order. If every soldier in this fight was armed with a Petition and a clip board, and was actively in everyone’s face with it, how long do you think it would take to bring physicall attention to the TRUTH?

  37. Manny – Do You remember the song “In The Year 25…25?”
    …you’ll pick your son…pick your daughter too…
    …from the bottom of a long glass tube yo oh oh…
    …In the Year 25…25
    …If Man is still alive
    …If Women Can Survive
    …If God’s A Comin He Ought To Make It By Then. . .
    …Everything We Think Do And Say
    …Is In A Pill That You Took Today yo oh oh….

  38. I know there is a comment above about our Constitutional Second Right To Keep And Bear Arms.
    Our Guaranteed First Rights Are Freedom Of Religion,
    Speech, The Press, and Rights To Assemble Peaceably and Petition The Government.
    I do believe that is herein is eactly what we are doing.

  39. GAO should target California’s law enforcement for overstepping their Constitutional authority by supporting and attempting to devise recommendations patterned after Federal Law rather than States. Federal Law Enforcement Agencies take care of Federal Regulations and codes and leave State law enforcement to take care of the States regulations and codes. It would appear that State law enforcement has violated several Federal regulatory requirements when attempting to uphold the law. A copy of those details has not been forwarded to GAO so NORML.org can prepare a summary of evidence and complaints. At the very least it will show these violators of public trust we intend to pursue the justice which will in fact cost these folks their jobs if they don’t cease and desist in violating Fed Law.

  40. 4 Kyle…………You say WE
    BELIVE IT OR NOT I RESPECT LAW ENFORCEMENT AND SUPPORT IT. I PLACE MY FAITH IN ANYONE WHO PROTECTS ME AND MINE. THAT INCLUDES THE FIRE DEPT…PARAMEDS…
    DOCTORS-NURSES…ETC, ETC, ETC. What I don’t respect is law enforcement breaking the law. You say “WE enforce the law..we don’t make the law.” Well then
    …”WE suggest you do just that…because you’re absolutely right…you do not make the law.” On the other hand…if you claim to enforce the law…THE LAW ON THE BOOKS AS OPPOSED TO THE LAW IN YOUR OPINION (or perhaps the law according the CCPA…don’t take it personal) you’re delussional. Law enforcement in this case is breaking the laws on the books. Nobodys against you busting criminals…and…almost all medicinal users are strong anti-drug proponents…
    SURPRISE!!!
    you certainly have our support, and blessing…but…
    if you think for one minute that your statement supports evedence to the contrary…”THAT’S BULLSHIT AND YOU KNOW IT!” Do your jod…get your pension…
    but in the meantime…enforce the law on the books
    and you will have my respect and support. If not…
    please don’t try to con me with a statement like you’ve just made. You’re here to protect and serve.
    Oh look who telling you…but…I believe you meant what you just said.
    I wish you good luck and happiness…and..I pray for your safety out there…”Be carefull out there.”
    P.S. Talk to Warrior Wendy about lights in her eye, dripping faucets, and rubber hoses…then…make your statement again. Kyle…you must be a new officer with a lot of whooooo rahhhhh in ya. that’s good!

  41. California police do not have the authority to enforce Federal law, nor is that part of their job description.

  42. The continued silence from the Department of Justice and the Attorney General Erik Holder and the clarification of and implementation of the Federal medical marijuana policy is at this time giving these governors a means to veto with the laws on the books.
    They are costing American tax dollars wasted on legislation having to be done again and again and again. Not only wasting tax dollars but wasting legislature’s session time on having to redo these laws when the DOJ implements the changes necessary to allow the operation of medical marijuana clinics.
    Since they will be allowing marijuana to be used for medical reasons,it will have to be rescheduled because it no longer will be a drug with no medical applications. The federal laws against cultivation,possession and sale will have to be structured as to
    allow medical marijuana production,storage,transport and sales.
    The delay is also causing the torturing of American citizens because of regulations of the DEA controlling pain management clinics because when legitimate M/M patients submit their DEA
    required urine analysis,they are being denied their prescription
    pharmaceutical pain medicines because of the presence of marijuana in their urine. These regulations must be changed or is this the new “treatment” policy of the Drug Czar to torture M/M users until they can pass a urine test to receive pharmaceutical pain medications?
    And when the required federal laws are in place,maybe some of the resistance will go away.

  43. #10 @editor’s note I have been religously on a daily basses tracking the HR2943 and their are curently 8 cosponcors at the time. I was just woundering if you may happen to know being I did not see the other 2 you mentioned if and when they are suppose to support HR2943 and who they may be? Reason why I ask this is as soon as I find out while tracking the HR2943 bill inform every one as it progresses and have not seen any more cosponcors other than the 8 that their is. I did check the site again today and it still says we have only 8 cosponcors. As I did mention I do keep this as a daily basses where as soon as new information is posted do let us and every one else know when their is an update on HR2943 and what the update is. Reason why I do this is where NORML and others who are out their doing their part may have more time available that can go towards the cause. No ofence intended..
    [Editor’s note: The current total is 8 and will likely rise by two by week’s end. The ‘Dear Colleague’ letter from Frank and Paul is still pending. Once that circulates in the House, hopefully a number of members will step up to co-sponsor the legislation.]

  44. #36 very good point you make and a lot of us do agree with you on that. Why keep something that is more safer illegal and not taxing it that may help our nation? It is not logical and does not do good to keep it illegal and not tax it. We are in a time that needs to use not only logic but also need . We need extra revenue to help our nation yet what does our government do? It make no sence we would be better off through legalization and taxation of Mj than to let it remain illegal and not taxed… Kind of worries me to think we have people in office that are ignorant to not see this and to let it continue to happen as for those who are in office who are doing what they can they are the ones we not only are the smart ones who we need in office but are indeed truely for the people of our nation and deserve to be in office..

  45. Dear #30 – Chrokee Fred Jesus Says – Did you know that the other day we were also completely slandered.
    Each and everyone of us were mocked.
    john english called us marijuana slaves.
    one who returns to its own vomit relentlessly.
    Take him down.
    Amen Amen Amen.

  46. In the state of California, as most elsewhere in the nation, police chiefs are selected by mayors. Therefore, the correct venue for complaints demands for changes at that level is through the office of the mayor. If it becomes apparent that there are “issues” with any police chief, who like any other political appointee is subject to being replaced at the discretion of the mayor who appointed him (unlike judges, who must be impeached in order to effect removal), a well-organized snail-mail and email deluge of the office of the mayor would likely be the most effective course of action.

  47. I wonder if Linda Lingle in bi-lingual.
    Maybe she could tell me what reflection is within her mirror when she reflexes her own damn muscle spasms.
    I Pray today to have some muscle reflexed upon her within her preyers.
    Oh no prey tell no no pray tell on the predators of our ills.
    Dumb Bell Google comes from within the skies above…
    Dumb Bell Lingle for crying out loud comes from….
    …and are ya ready now….
    T H E E G R E A T S T A T E
    O F H A W A I I !!!!!!!
    The whole entire world is laughing out loud at you right now Governor Linda Lingle.
    Amen Amen Amen.

  48. People, just file a ton of lawsuits, it doesn’t cost much if you represent yourself. It isn’t about going to court and winning, it’s about all of us, all at once, suing the hell out of every police agency for different civil right violations. After a few weeks of the courts seeing nothing but marijuana suits, the judges will hammer down on their police agencies, and then they will back off.
    Cops won’t back off until ordered to, they are just little wanna-be soliders. So until their boss says “enough” they won’t stop. So fuck the cops as they are just pawns in this game, get the judges pissed off and bombard your elected officials telling ALL OF THEM the situation and make your voice be heard if you really want to see thing change in your state Cali.
    Picketing doesn’t work, pissing off a judge does.

  49. Oh My Lord I Pray This Day
    For Eathan Warren Devaul
    He flees since then
    recaptured still
    locked up with your walls.
    Release Thee Now old devil grip
    Release Him Now I pray
    Release Unto This Child Of God
    Forever Will We Pray.
    There is one of the six children that were kidnapped from their Aunt Wendy trying to find his way home.
    We sanctioned Four and now He Is The Fifth Within This Long Long Line Of Cruelty And Injustice.
    Return Him Unto Us I Pray Oh Lord This Day.
    His name is Eathan Warren Devaul
    Send Him Home Oh Lord We Pray. Amen Amen Amen.
    This little guy was like one of my own.
    They took him abused him just the same as the rest.
    They have trampled our rights long enough.
    Now LET MY PEOPLE GO.
    People of America I implore you to listen.
    This child is on the run.
    He wants to come into our safety
    our love is open wide.
    Please help me.
    It is beyond words any longer.
    Eathan just got locked away again this morning
    by devil and his laws.
    This kid was just locked up again in detention home Salt Lake City yesterday!
    SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!
    He is an innocent child SET MY PEOPLE FREE.
    Amen Amen Amen.
    I am on my knees.
    Amen.

  50. I fear that we are, in fact, the dumbest country in the world right now. We display the least common sense, that’s for certain. On top of that, we’re still living in a slave state after all these years. Such a shame.
    Whatever happened to our once great country?

  51. Fred Hood
    To our legislators,
    l am doing research on a book I am writing the title, “Slavery in the 21st Century”. It is about the war on drugs. I would like to know how much money your accept from lobbyist. Lobbyist that profit from the war and our enslavement. Please round off to the nearest million.
    Cherokee Fred Jesus

  52. Prohibitionists should get another hobby, something that doesn’t include trying to run other people’s lives. If police officers want to cut down on harmful drug consumption, I suggest they take a look at their alcohol intake. Otherwise, when there is no victim, there is no crime. Police officers arrest cannabis consumers “because it’s the law?” Slavery in this country used to be “the law.”

  53. I sit and watch people in third world countries put everything on the line for the freedoms they want…
    In the 60’s we protested daily in city after city to make change…
    If we want legalization we need to gather in untold numbers at the whitehouse and stay until the will of the majority is accepted….
    We’ve waited too long and had to lidten to too many BS excusses from the right whule our friends are jailed and killed..
    It’s time to demonstarate like they have never seem…
    If Norml was serious about moving the cause then they would organize an event we will tell our children about… Democracy in full force…
    Now is the time…. after Iran are they going to club us in Washington for all the world to see… I don’t think so….
    [Editor’s note: Do huge Washington, DC rallies really bring an end to bad policy making. Did the so-called Million Man March in the mid 1990s end racism and deliver equality to African Americans? Did the large PRIDE rally organized by the gay and lesbian community end sexual-orientation inequality? Did the reproductive rally a few years back in DC end the dispute over such?
    Point being, even with huge rallies in DC, there are no assurances of both national media coverage and politicians–from both major parties–embracing the sought social changes of the amassed crowd.
    Obviously NORML has been sponsoring public rallies and protests since 1970, but cannabis consumers and activists should not delude themselves that a DC march is the end all of cannabis prohibition. It is just one of the many bricks laid on the long road of reform.
    If cannabis consumers and activists want to have the most impact on the future of cannabis prohibition, 1) personally lobby your elected officials, 2) donate to and promote anti-prohibition candidates, 3) don’t vote for politicians who support prohibition, 4) Don’t do business with businesses that support cannabis prohibition (and let them and the media know about your boycott), and 5) contact media outlets and complain about any overt anti-cannabis bias or misinformation.]

  54. As I sit here,I’m watching cnbc’s Marijuana inc; …again. Everytime I see this and see the part where they talk about the crime associated with cannabis grows and sales I get pissed! our leaders by now have to know why the crime is there. Its soo stupid! All the reasons to legalize is there(and we all know they are many)! Yet they (our leaders)hang on to the reasons they think are good enough to keep this going! ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH ANY MORE! GET THE F*&K OVER IT YOU POWER HUNGRY POLITICIANS!

  55. I can think of one thing that I could do with that “white paper” and it involves a toilet and my ass.

  56. Editor…
    We’ve been doing the same song and dance for as long as I can remember… I started smoking in 1963…
    No those did not make a huge difference… I’m not asking for the same ole sign waving day of waving signs… I mean day in and day out in DC until we get a serious move by this administration to take serious look at MJ as the majority of people want to happen…
    Norml ahs done a fantastic job over the years, but the right will defy the law to deprive us of our right unless we show the government it’s not OK any more to just laugh us off as a bunch of Cheech and Chong stoners… the time could not be better…
    [Editor’s note: When you say ‘we’, do you include your closeted cannabis consumption for 46 years as a pro-active means to get cannabis legal? Hopefully you’ve done more than wave a sign since 1963. NORML, and about 10 other drug policy groups do work ‘everyday’ in DC (and around the country) to get the administration to take the issue of reform seriously. There is considerably more going on than ‘sign waving’ these days. The recent ads from NORML and MPP on TV are indicative of working to be taken seriously, and doing more than sign waving.
    Again, protests are great, an important part of any social movement. But to not recognize the substantive gains made from lobbying, litigation, direct initiatives, and grassroots networking and educational efforts (especially at the local and state level–not the federal level), and cling to the hope that continuous protests in DC will bring about change is not supported by current history.
    Ask Operation Code Pink, who protest constantly in DC, since 2005, and neither Democrats or Republicans (or Obama) are caving into their loud and disruptive ‘end the wars’ demands.
    Consider this: A single mass rally in Sacramento demanding passage of Tom Ammiano’s legalization bill would be a functional and purposeful rally to hold as there is an actual legalization bill for reformers to rally around as compared to DC where there will be no legalization bill anytime soon in the 111th Congress.]

  57. The cops I have known, if they had a choice, would not enforce simple possession of weed laws. But with the quota system they have in place they are forced no black mailed into busting people minding their own business and bothering no one….
    CFJ

  58. Some one ask what the motivation behind the war? Knowing the facts which indicate it is illegal, immoral a waste of time and American lives?
    Sorry to say but based on my insight and knowledge. It is all about greed and racisim. These are the same reasons the war on drugs was first put in place. Today almost a century later it is still serving the same puspose. Insure corprated giants get the billions spent on the war. Insure the kickbacks from lobbyist keep coming every year to our representatives. Lets not forget the war on drugs is predicted to insure one in two blacks goes to jail (a racist wet dream)….
    CFJ

  59. If the police work for the State then they should enforce and obey State laws since they are State employees. They cannot have double standards. What kind of oath did they make when they were sworn in?
    The only people really pushing for prohibition are those that benefit from prohibition, i.e. Law enforcement, Lawyers, Politicians, bankers etc. It has nothing to do with public safety or health. It’s all about keeping the money going around i.e. budgets, legal fees, under the table cash, money laudering nothing more. Most of the police and low ranking government representaives are just robots and don’t know any better. They’re brain wahsed. Don’t expect that that to change because it won’t at least not anytime soon. It’s up to the people to force the change and make it happen.

  60. Ok. So I am getting downright pissed! Here’s the story; I noticed there are certain questions that prohibitionists avoid like the plague. So for weeks now I’ve been debating (if that’s what you call it) the kind folks at the Drug Free America Foundation( http://www.dfaf.org ) on their blog, trying to get their response to these very simple questions. All posts to their blogs are moderated. For a while I didn’t have any issues with being censored. They just simply didn’t address it. Then I started trying corner them into defending what prohibition has done. How has prohibition made anyone safer? That sorta thing. These posts began disappearing. I continued to pick at it. Posts continued to go missing. I saved the last one because I knew what was going to happen:
    –Tobacco use was obviously not reduced by criminalizing the users. And where is the evidence that legalization would cause skyrocketing public health costs? This is just more unfounded distortions. Health risks really make a poor reason for NO regulation.
    I know I’m not the only one to have had issues with the DFAF and their dishonest attempts at tipping the debate in their favor. They claim to have facts on their side; but when posts are made here with links directly to FDA information refuting some of the claims they make both on this page and on TV; they somehow don’t find their way to being posted. They can no longer completely stifle the debate. So now they are trying to manipulate it to stay within the parameters of their talking points. They can speak up and down about the risks of marijuana use. But in order to keep their logic from falling apart right in front of you, they have to stop the conversation there. So how has marijuana prohibition reduced the risks of marijuana use? How does an unregulated black market keep marijuana out of the hands of minors better than a legal, regulated market? What makes marijuana users worthy of criminalization where tobacco and alcohol users are not? Name even ONE success of marijuana prohibition! I’m sure even asking such questions will result in this post being deleted too. They don’t have talking points to cover such questions. They allow this debate here because it gives them control over the content. Inconvenient facts and questions they are unable to answer can just be scrubbed. It’s frustrating, but not at all surprising.
    That’s how the prohibitionist system has been allowed to flourish for so long. They go through great lengths to repress information, and then sanctimoniously proclaim “there is no proof!”; sometimes citing this lack of proof as reason to repress yet more information. Someone should explain to the DFAF that there is no proof that marijuana is as harmful to your health as tobacco, but plenty of proof to the contrary. But then again proof only exists to them if they allow it on their page.
    This of course will not stop the historical shift taking place in America these days. When Americans sit down to examine it, they see that tobacco kills thousands of people every year. They also see that marijuana kills zero people a year. The DFAF are claiming here that these things are equally as dangerous. Despite defeating their own argument due to the fact that tobacco is and will remain a legal regulated substance; these claims have no evidence based anywhere in reality. It’s like comparing apples and oranges? No. It’s like comparing apples and tobacco. One is lethal; one is not.
    PS- I love how Calvina Fay, who presumably never tried marijuana, knows the motivation of every single marijuana user and how it effects each and every one of them. I also love that she is out there still citing the gateway theory; on TV no less. She would have sounded less out of touch claiming the planet was flat. It’s my hope that the DFAF sticks with these blatantly dishonest methods. It only strengthens the case for reform in the eyes of the general public.—
    I feel it is below me to get so heated over this; but yet I am. I don’t understand. But anyways if anyone’s got a few minutes swing by and ask them a simple question. Betch ya might stump ’em.

  61. My dear fellow Hot Rock Genesists…whomsoever you are, wheresoever you’re at, we shall overcome. We shall win our freedom back. Our reason and our passion, are the rudder and the sail of our soul. There’s nothing more powerful than an idea that’s time has come. My hope though, is that we don’t become the beast, trying to defeat the beast. Their strategy is…”We are fishin the water. If the water is withdrawn…the fish cannot survive.” Our commitment is…”We will not go quietly into the night…we will slug it out…all the way.
    I share these words with many great minds. Let, if you will,these words inspire you, and give you hope and direction, as they have me. As it is…I can offer you no better gift than the means of mastering, in a very brief time, all that in the course of so many years, and at the cost of so many hardships and dangers, I have learned and know.
    I’m reminde that…the idea of truth and value should not be held so close that it becomes grotesque, and when you give up your hopes and dreams, your nothing grows stronger.
    So…I speak out when I cease to be at peace with my thoughts, and when I can no longer dwell in the solitude of my heart, I live in my lips, and my pen becomes my tongue and my sword. Yet…I often wonder…do I have the right chalk to use on a blank slate (Tabula Raza) of impresionable minds. At any rate…I’m sure…I’m the cause of things that effect me. In the end…it is well for me to think well…but…because I maintain “EQUILIBRIUM OF THE SOUL” it is devine for me to act well. I know full well that…”The choices I make…will dictate the life I’m going to lead.”
    I think it though…hilarious that the only “REAL DEMON” I have is “PROHIBITIONISTS.” The Prohibitionist will always stand on your path of individual freedom and rattle their sword. It’s not that they don’t want it…it’s that “THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO HAVE IT” Oh!…I have my “LITTLE DEMONS” that cause me to admit that “I HATE THE WAY I LOVE IT”…
    when higher powers overpower lower ones by affecting them with a certain sleep. The faculties are locked up, and offer no resistance…but…I enjoy messin’ with their “LITTLE DEMON HEADS.” Why?…because I always win, and it’s always conforing to know that I have self control.
    I can say this because…”CONGITO ERGO SUM”…I think, therfore I am. As a man thinks , so is he. But too…
    I sense, therefore I am.
    God knows…I’ve always kept “ONE THOUGHT” in my head.
    Where else? And that is…”NOTHING HAPPENS UNLESS I MAKE IT HAPPEN.” The great thing about that is…”I CAN MAKE ANYTHING HAPPEN.” I can be or do whatever I resolve to be or do…wihin my own limitations…which I set for myself…and…sometimes change…at my own will…proving to me that I can “CHANGE.”
    That’s all premised on experience. Experience still proves that we risk less by looking forward than looking behind us…less by looking too high, than not looking high enough. It is wise therefore, to attach one’s self to the extreme that implies the most
    perfect, the most noble, and the most generous form of mankind. Thus…it’s this reply that I give to one who asks whether it is well to grant to We the
    People, in spite of our imperfections, the most complete possible liberty.
    It is therefore my wish…for each and every one of us in this battle for truth and freedom that…”IN THE PURSUIT OF THE ‘TRUTH’…THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS IS THAT WE NEVER STOP SEARCHING FOR OUR OWN ANSWERS.”
    But…sometimes I have to admit to myself, only because I set my own limitations that “I WILL IF I DON’T WANT TO.” We ‘ve all done things…we
    didn’t want to do…not in a bad way. We didn’t want to do something…but…it was in someone’s or something’s best interests that we do it…and…we had respect for that person or thing. I was once asked…knowing that I didn’t want to…”Why do you do that?” My reply was…”My wife loves it…and…I love my wife.”
    I hope this is food for thought, and there is some value in these words.
    Manny

  62. The show marijuana inc that airs on tv does no help at informing people about the plant.. if anything.
    The Union:the business behind getting high. should be aired instead because it is the best marijuana documentary to ever come out. I think norml should send out the link to everyone.

  63. #41 NP the site I did design as i did mention I believe would help the cause and help build even more momentum it is kind of my way of helping our cause that any one may use that wants to help the cause may do so other than what we are doing as is. For if we all do all we can we shall see the fruits of our work and when that fine day comes we can all celibrate until then we all must keep on fighting. I do want to thank you for your kind words how ever and do look forward to helping and supplying our cause use full information and help as it comes available .

  64. We live in the United Police States of America. The place where freedoms are given up for the few. The place where corporations rape the citizens of their money and life.
    Enjoy.
    I’m glad I, along with 300-some million other Americans, own a defunct car company… Maybe some insurance too? I don’t even have health care at the moment!

  65. Thank You God Almighty This Day
    My little Eathan Arthur DeVaul (Rose) kidnapped name for about ten years I cannot recall, I just held him in my arms again.
    Like I said guys, now I have five of the six kidnapped victims released back from this fucking cult.
    I swear to God It felt like a miracle today; my baby was returned to my arms right after I asked In His Name. I tell you not, the devil has his grips upon our babies throats right now.
    There’s one more child that this fuck won’t give up yet but God Almighty Wait And See!
    I want them all locked up (the personal predators) into our lives. Their names are Jamie Allred and Mark Shurtleff. I want them locked up for what they deserve; this kidnap of my kids, rape torture, and the cover up. If it’s the last breathe I take. Amen.

  66. Jesus tells us not to continue to throw our pearls before the swine it is a wasted effort.
    #6 – Jerry Moler Says: “Who has authority over these rogues?” Who do ya think? (*>_<*)
    #10 – Seattle Hemp Fest? Rock On! That’s where I believe Mr. Kerlikowske, Drug Czar was previously a Police Chief; check with Manny I may be wrong.
    This kind Gentleman Kerlikowske now reminds me of someone I am probably related to. I have German and English Ancestory and very proud of that to say the least.

  67. Ah oh..we got a live one on the line…Tee Hee.
    #19 – wtf Says: His name is Mark Shurtleff, Attorney General To Utah; he protected Jamie Allred (long polygamy lines); Fucking Jamie Allred kidnapped my children. Fucking Utah protected the son of a bitch. He is my pedophile brother’s step-son; he sat on my legs during the assault when my children ran screaming; he is my oldest brother’s step-son; he left his highway patrol car parked in front of his own mother’s house as each and every summer was non challaunteley passing by and she produced the weed. A ton of it. She is the one who put in writing to the grantsville police that I was going to kill them all. I had only called my s–ocalled big brother to see where and how the children were once I had been released from the week long torture treatment. They were covering their own tracks too because the incest memories had surfaced. They live next door to the fucking fat pig chief lieing fucking fat pig cover up loose my photos pig.
    Now I Cast Thee Into The Eternal Flames Of Hell devil
    Amen Amen Amen.

  68. #31 – R.O.E. – Where is Governor Arnold’s morale?
    Is it within his own over-zealot stereotypical own form of confused brainwashing witin his own deceitful diety? He’s quite a challenge within himself I do dare to say so yes?

  69. #37 San Diego – Oh Precious Saint Thereof Forever And Ever In His Name I Praise Thee Oh Amen. In Almighty Creation I Praise Thee Thy Name Oh Lord Oh Lord Oh Lord Above. In All Creation We Now Do Pray. Oh Lord Oh Lord Above. Amen.
    Oh anyway I agree with you. Thanx.

  70. law enforcement has a history of being on the wrong side of most civil movements, ask a black or gay person that has stood up for their rights in the past how the police treated them…shameful that we cant have true freedom of rights in the u.s.

  71. “All marijuana dispensaries should generally be considered illegal and should not be permitted to
    exist and engage in business within a county’s or city’s borders. Their presence poses a clear
    violation of federal and state law; they invite more crime; and they compromise the health
    and welfare of law-abiding citizens.” All I can say is wow… The only thing that is “compromising the health and welfare of law -abiding citizens” is these cops taking the law into their own hands when we (state taxpayers) have made a simple, clear decision at the polls.

  72. I MET A LADY FROM INTERNET AND AFTER WEEKS OF COMUNICATION WE MET… SO WARM AND FRIENDLY UNTIL SHE SUDDENLY ASKED ME MY OPINION ABOUT..CANNABIS.
    I SAID OF COURSE THAT I AM NOT AGAINST…
    MOOD CHANGED AND SHE STARTED PUTTING IN THE SAME BASKET CANNABIS, HEROINE AND COCAINE…!!
    WHEN I SAID THAT IT IS ILOGIC TO PUT A VEGETABLE TOGETHER WITH THESE CHEMICAL POWEFULL DRUGS SHE CALLED ME FANATIC..!! AND SHE STOOD UP AND LEFT SAYING THAT SHE KNOWS PEOPLE THAT SMOKE 5 -6 JOINTS ALL DAY AND ARE LIKE VEGETABLE..
    ITS NOT THE FIRST LADY THAT LEAVES ME FOR CANNABIS OPINION.. ALL THE FRIENDS I LOST, ALL THE JOBS I LOST, THE STIGMA THAT MY PARENTS HAD CARRIED BECAUSE THEY HAD A SON THAT IS …NOT AGAINST MEDICAL CANNABIS !!!
    TAKE A LOOK AT MY FACE BOOK PAGE ALL OF YOU FRIENDS OF NORML BUT ENNEMIES TOO… UNDER THE NAME OF NASOS LAHANAS, MY REAL NAME AND BE MY FRIENDS.. DO I LOOK LIKE SOMEBODY THAT LIVED HIS LIFE IN A WRONG WAY..??
    WE SHOULD CONCIDER THAT A PERSON THAT SMOKES MANY JOINTS ALL DAY MAYBE IS PSYCHOTIC AND BY USING THIS IS RELAXED AND SPENDS HIS DAYS IN PEACE.
    DID WE EVER THINK THAT WITHOUT MAYBE HE COULD KILL SOMEBODY OR EVEN COMMIT SUICIDE ETC..
    OR MAYBE HE COULD TAKE SOME HANDFULL OF PILLS AS OUR SYSTEM PROPOSES AND END UP LIKE MICHAEL JACKSON OR ELVIS.. THEY BOTH ATTACKED CANNABIS AND BOTH PROVED THAT THEY DIDNT KNOW HOW TO PROTECT THEM SELVES.
    A YOGI FROM ELLAS (GREECE)

  73. #32 Anonymous Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 10:28 pm

    I would think that the Calif. police should
    be working for the people of Calif.,

    not the Federal Govmt.
    RE:
    That’s how it’s supposed to be…
    – However,
    some departments accept federal-money,
    (i.e. Byrne-Grants),
    and / or are located in
    highly-federalized areas of the state,
    (i.e. the U.S. – Mexican border,
    national-parks, etc, for example),
    perceiving themselves as
    more obligated to
    enforce federal-law,
    rather than
    state-law…

  74. #53 Justin Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
    “California police do not
    have the authority to enforce Federal law,
    nor
    is that part of their job description.”
    RE:
    Exactly!!!

  75. #28 C Says:
    July 12th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
    Sigh. “What kind of person is against the rights of cancer patients?”
    RE:
    Those who haven’t experienced
    cancer / chemo for themselves…
    🙁

  76. @ #103 THESEUS FROM ATHENS: No worries man. You’re better off *not* with her type. I would equate her as someone who never believe a black person could be our president of the USA. I’m damn proud to say that I believed it. But in the case of cannabis, believing is not necessary because we have facts and truth on our side.
    When legalization happens, not if, but when it happens – then those prohibitionist nay-sayers will either have to live with it or leave the country. Once it’s legalized, there’s no going back (i.e. alcohol prohibition). Progress moves forward, not backwards.

  77. #62 Wendy from Good ‘ole Utah Says:
    July 13th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
    The ‘latter day syndrome’ (woops)…
    They name themselve the saints.
    It is the latter day saints’ syndromes’ (l.d.s.)
    and no all of you old hippies in the world not (l.s.d.).
    RE:
    If the truth be known…
    Epiphanous LSD remediates LDSS.

    Epiphanous
    3. a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight
    into the reality or essential meaning of something,
    usually initiated by some simple, homely,
    or commonplace occurrence or experience.

  78. My gateway drug was cigarette.
    We could so easily sneak one when we were twelve years old or so.
    Actually, another big dumb brother of mine, when I was eight years old, rolled up some cedar bark into a grocery paper bag joint.
    He said, “here Wendy take a big hit off of this.”
    And so I did.
    I turned blue coughing.
    So maybe cedar bark was my gateway drug I dunno.
    My Loving Brother Danny, rest his soul, was here the first time they were taking me down for a joint in 1997.
    I told my sweet officer friend, “oh please, he and I (referring to Danny) have tried every damn drug there is give me a break.”
    The officer looked at Danny and asked, “well what was your gateway drug?”
    Danny replied, “aspirin.”
    HA HA HA
    The defined definition of aspirin is ‘drug used for colds to relieve pain and reduce fever.
    It’s basic indredient is derived from tree bark. It is taken by man though and manufactured.

  79. #23 – Drew – E. POISONING – The cops here forced a handful of prescriptions down my throat.
    The beat and locked me up for a week and POISONED ME FOR THE DURATION.
    They tried to kill me and make it look like a suicide.
    Some I pray tell where are the attempted murder charges?

  80. #80 – Mikey Says – DFAF must deaf.
    Tobacco was introduced and then induced upon us.
    The wealthy of whom had their finger in the tobacco bowl back then outlawed weed for their own filthy greed.
    I one heard that tobacco was actually horse wormer to begin with.

  81. Get your head out of your ass, cops and government officials don’t give a damn about your desire to smoke pot for any reason, even if it saves your life.
    There are NO rules in war, you won’t get any compremise or meet in the middle, on marijuana issues so you’d better be ready to literally fight in a physical manner to protect your individual rights to use marijuana or you can go back to the same ole life, “Do What Your Told, Shut Up, Sit Down, Dye!”
    This country is fucked and I mean it’s going down hill for all of us faster than anyone realizes. I never dreamed I’d be here for the very end of life as we know it today but this is reality.
    If the world ends in two to four years, why should I listen to any public authority that doesn’t have a clue about me personally. Fuck the bastards, smoke your dope and keep it cool!

  82. TO ONE AND ALL OF MY FELLOW GENESISTS
    If you’ve ever uttered “GOD’S NAME,” or used “GOD’S NAME” in a post…you are protected by the Religious Freedon Restoration Act/RFRA/First Amendment of the Constitution.
    If you believe in our creator, and his/her gift of “Manna” as Holy Sacrament for Communion…you are protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act/RFRA/First Amendment of the Constitution.
    It matters not what religion one practices. All religions contain the Faith,described in Genesis I:11,12 Genesis I:29,30,31 Genesis IX:3. One can “declare the Faith, one can “reject the Faith, but
    no one can “deny the chapter and verse.” If you
    “declare the Faith” as a Genesist (Christian Genesist, Jewish Genesist, Muslim Genesist, any religious Genesist), you are protected by the Religious Freedom Restoration Act/RFRA/First Amendment of the Constitution.
    Religious use and defense, will not/cannot be defeated, lest “PROHIBITIONISTS” will be felled by the hand of God and his faithful in this world. The world is united “AS ONE.”
    The only resistance to religious use defense is that a “LAST MINUTE DECLARATION OF FAITH” may meet opposition in court. If you hold the Faith, “HONOR IT NOW” with your declaration. “I’M PROUD TO BE A GENESIST…AND…CALL GOD’S FAITHFUL TO GATHER IN HIS/HER NAME, WHENEVER, AND WHEREVER I CAN…Amen.
    The fight for “ABSOLUTE LEGALIZATION,” I fear, will be, unfortunatrly, a long and hotly contested battle, led by the “PROHIBIYIONISTS,” and we should “NEVER SURRENDER TO THE PROHIBITIONISTS” for any reason, or at any cost. Medicinal use “LEGALIZATION” is pretty much a reality in California. But then, will you hereme now? Religious use, worldwide is the best form of acceptance, and the hardest for “PROHIBITIONISTS” to defend. The Religious Freedom Restoration Act/RFRA is already protected by the Constiitution.
    Shall we gather in his/her name?

  83. Wendy, I said Morons are their own worst enemies. I think that the true and scary part of the future will be for the prohibitionists at the Judgement before God, with the founding fathers lambasting them and figuring out an appropriate punishment for their evil against millions!!!!

  84. http://cocktails.about.com/od/history/a/prohibition_2.htm
    “….
    Another interesting provision to prohibition was that alcohol was available via a physician’s prescription. For centuries liquor had been used for medicinal purposes, in fact many of the liqueurs we know today were first developed as miracle cures for various ailments. Despite the fact that in 1916 whiskey and brandy were removed from The Pharmacopeia of the United States of America and in 1917 the American Medical Association stated that alcohol “…use in therapeutics as a tonic or stimulant or for food has no scientific value…” and voted in support of prohibition, there was still a belief in liquor’s medicinal benefits among many.
    Because of this established belief that liquor could cure and prevent a variety of ailments, doctors were still able to prescribe liquor to patients on a specially designed government prescription form that could be filled at any pharmacy. When medicinal whiskey stocks were low the government would increase its production. A significant amount of the prescription alcohol supplies were diverted from their intended destinations by bootleggers and corrupt individuals during prohibition.
    ….”
    I could not tear my eyes away from the CPCA report. Police objections to the medical dispenseries are based on some real problems based on what should be obvious to everyone. The “medical marijuana dispenseries” are rather thin fronts for dope dealing. And along with the dope dealing we see murder, robbery and more dope dealing around the dispenseries where dealers on the street are able to offer *lower prices* then what you get inside. Wow. Let’s face it, the whole “medical marijuana thing” is a toy for rich people with doctors who can give them a pass to get high.
    Of course the basic solution is legalization or, at least, decriminalization. The whole “nonprofit” status of any of the dispenseries is pretty feeble too. Who decides what is “nonprofit”? If the dispenseries agree to be billed black market prices for their weed, then “nonprofit” doesn’t amount to much, especially if they are being kicked back a little under the table.
    We see the “5 pillers of prohibition”, what about some pillers for legalization?
    1. Anyone should be able to grow cannabis for any reason they want.
    2. Anyone who worries about the impact of the drug associated with cannabis on society should focus on distribution of those parts of the plant containing the drug associated with cannabis, not possession.
    3. The way to control distribution of cannabis is the same way we control the distribution of tobacco, we start with either fines or taxes or both, not incarceration.
    Again, if cannabis is legalized for commercial distribution two important things will happen that everyone can support. The black market trade in cannabis will be reduced to a nuisance at worse and the “medical marijuana dispenseries” will vanish completely overnight.

  85. And here is a fourth piller,
    4. The price of the drug associated with cannabis shouldn’t be any more than the price of tobacco per gram after being corrected for taxes.
    Practically though, if cannabis is finally, once again, grown for fiber and seed, the price of the flower and leaf would be practically nothing. There is more money per acre for any kind of cannabis in the fiber and seed than there is for the flower and leaf. Anyone can use the fiber and seed for a sea of reasons and hardly even know they are doing it, but not everyone is interested in getting high.

  86. I forgot where I was @ so I’ll begin again…
    (excuse me I mean squeeze me or something)
    One of my very favorite songs is “Roam If You Want To…Roam Around The World….
    Roam If You Want Too…la la la…la la la la la…”

  87. WOW GMAC Mortgage from Waterloo is cutting the crap out of my home financed. Thank you Waterloo.
    Does everyone know there’s a song named Waterloo?
    Thanks fellow citizens from Iowa….wowo…thanks.
    Amen.
    Wendy ReNae Warr Elorriaga
    It’s about time its’ about space about two ships in the strangest place…I think that song was about LOST IN SPACE SHOW WE GREW UP WITH.
    And that red-headed freckled guy ya know! I am laughing and cannot remember his names’ right now.
    Did I say legalize happiness yet?
    Joy and Jubilation
    Glory Oh Amen.
    I speak these names and by that I mean nobody else can have ’em yet. For my grandchildren of whom yet are on the way (I have at least One Hundred God Children Of My Own At Present)…excuse me now for rambling on but…My First Granddaughter Will Be Mary Jane Justice.
    My Second Granddaughter Will Be Glory.
    My Third Granddaughter Will Be Patience.
    My Fourth Granddaughter Will Be Hope.
    My Fifth Granddaughter Will Be Cherish.
    My Sixth Granddaugther Will Be Faith.
    Oh I’m just a kidding; I’m sure there are zillionz of peeps with those names already. Amen.

  88. I dream of the day when I can get top quality/good priced cannabis at my local 7/11 . The laws need to be changed for this amazing and harmless drug.

  89. One of my pharmaseutical prior med’s I forced them to let me off of a couple of years ago….
    ….now listen everybody, hear me out please….
    …it was called depakote….
    …when I was released from University Psych Ward after a three week stay…..
    I had been weined there for that three weeks off of PAXIL. I HAD BEEN ON THE WRONG FUCKING THING AND THEY ALL KNEW IT TOO. ANOTHER BLATANT COVER TO A COVER UP.
    MY FUCKING DOCTOR (now outta the closet cannabis himself…blah …blah… blahh..)
    …this son of a bitch got a hold of my initial attorney without my permission.
    ….the attorney that filed $2.5 million civl suit.
    ….and is everbody with me now…
    please let me go on….
    Dr. Reid called those lawyers and the very next day they dropped me quicker than a hot potatoes.
    Now My God…I wonder if dear arnold can hear me now.
    I only found record of his so-called breach of trust, harm no one first, CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS when the S.S.I. Adminstration finally granted me funds (after ten long years of begging on my knees.)
    He and the attorneys clear up until the end of the federal trail were all in on it together.
    They are all in the same building for cryingoutloud!
    I think Bel-Ami Montreaux took a pay-off much as did the biased federal judge to fuck me over on purpose.
    Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first and most it is we deceive…..
    The depakote made me gain 80 pounds. A male nurse on his knees at my bedside granting me release from the hospital…told me that it would do that.
    He said, “Wendy, it’s going to make you gain some weight….and it won’t be the weight that will kill you it will be the bed.
    His words rang true.
    I lost the unGodly oh so very UNGODLY WEIGHT INDEED>
    Amen…Thank God Amen.
    My prayers have now been answered. Amen Amen Amen.
    Bel-Ami Montreaux started sticking his hands down my neice’s pants; lost all sight of my case. Mocked and danced and fucked me over to the mighty hilt thereof.
    In thus so far he has also escaped God’s Wrath Upon Him.
    I know for a fact that my nieces’s ability and mine were targeted for supression early . . .on.
    God’s Words Are Reigning Forth Today. Amen.
    They laugh and mocked and hid.
    Bel-Ami Montreaux’s sister with six children sadly died in his native country. He was forced to take the children in; or so that’s what I heard anyway.
    I know he took a pay-off to fuck up my federal case against Spencer Turpin.
    Spence is now my dear friend. he’s the one who crippled me and he knows that beyond the shadow of a doubt. He was close friends with many in my immediate family come to find out and when he realized who he had hurt?
    I forgive him and my sister, I forgive them every day.
    They did not mean to harm me….
    I love them every day…
    Spence became intermingled with my big sister’s family.

  90. Wells Nishimotot in so far has escaped God’s wrath.
    He ran to Las Vegas and was under protection from the law.
    Wells Nishimoto.
    I had never been arrested.
    After the beating..they actually got me booked that first night. It took ten hours. I laid on the cold cement before the assault which made it all the crueler.
    The only name I could remember..was Wells…like in the casinos someone has a nametag…all I could remember was wells…thinking that he may have come from Nevada.
    So like I said, he ran like a bitch-in-the-night. This filthy filthy dog!
    Federal Court refused jurisdiction in the matter much the same as Jamie Allred. They can always ply that card.
    The only way I found out Spencer’s name was because of his approach towards me in one of the many false arrests. These fuckers would not even tell me Spencer’s name for years. That’s why there are so many many John Does intertwined within my woven lies of corruption at its worst.

  91. Jurisdictional Clause: Dan Chamberlain
    Left six kids abondoned on purpose with this conspired trap of lies.
    And know by God it is not a theory but fact.
    Dan Chamberlain too trumped the jurisdictional card into my face when I personally asked him why.
    The distance between my parents’ house and mine is probably five miles.
    But no Dan did not see fit to call D.C.F.S. when he took our cousin, their care-taker as my sister was incarcerated.
    Dan Took Debbie Warr to jail on old warrants in the middle of the night. From my parents’ home.
    He left six children abondoned, scared, confused, broken out basement windows, no telephone, nothing but a food stamp card.
    My own mother had called Grantsville asking o-o-o-oh can Debbie get some community service time towards hr excessive bails and fines…dear Mary Saxon/Grantsville?
    Next thing we all knew, Debbie wasincarcerated….my mom whined to me to help help help…
    …..she totally also set me up for the fall on purpose….
    she coaxed me into taking the kids home. The rest of my family had not to groovey records and couldn’t take in the kids. I had an empty house and loved my darling babies.
    Then my mom turned on me and set the forest on fire with her and Jim Warr’s and Sam Allred’s (blah) and Jamie’s and angel’s twisted pack of lies.
    They are all in on it together as we speak. (type)
    And so the devil got his way for a minute with me and made me believe I was crazy…I don’t think so after all.

  92. I’m pretty sure by now most of us have heard of this propaganda movie called Reefer Madness and an idea just pop in my head. Why not make a new movie called Politician Madness and show the comparison between reefer and politicians. In Reefer Madness they claimed that reefer will make you kill your brother (which we all know it’s not true). However with Politician Madness they can kill your brother by sending him oversea fighting wars. Reefer settles our nerves while politicians get on our nerves.

  93. Now here’s a point that may be mute;
    I JUST GOT MY FINAL NOTICE BEFORE WATER SHUT OFF.
    By ORDER OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
    Here satan has his grip on us oh clearly do I see.
    The S.S.I. Attorney forced payments of disability out of Uncle Sam that summer. I lived without water. The L.D.S. Church helped me survive it and paid my overdue property taxes for me. I was allowed to stay.
    My Fifth Amendment Right is now in jeopardy; I have underground water rights they claim is not mine.
    This by the way also is my mom’s battle over the water rights she still owns. It is worth fucking millions and they are taking it from us.
    God Please Have Mercy On Their Souls. They Know Not What They Do. Amen.
    For two years I had no phone no car no money no health no sanity…we the meek have survived this holocost. Amen Amen Amen.

  94. Where does PAXIL and DEPA KOTE come from anyway?
    The 600 mg. of TRAZADONE Chamberlain choked down me
    (I was only prescribed 50 mg.)…that POISONING KEPT UP FOR A WEEK UNDER LOCKDOWN….I SIMULTANEOUSLY WAS DEPRIVED OF SLEEP.

  95. June 20, 1997 Bruce Hattaway raped me at 3:00 a.m. in my bed at home. I was silenced.
    I am and have always been abstinate but been raped innumerous times throughout my entire lifetime.
    The assults began the same year numerous assaults.

  96. I filed formal on Jim Warr’s incest rape of me as a child.
    They tortured me in silence for a couple of weeks.
    Then they refused to confront satan on my behalf.
    When I finally begged response to my complaints…
    I was silenced.
    The good ‘ole boys uptown; they said a fifty-year old case is to old to bother some for them.
    I wonder how many victims lay in Jim’s trail of blood lust.
    Frank Park Tooele County Sheriff – I pleaded with him the facts about the rape/torture/beating/overdoses and told him (we all grew up with this fuck) …”And then Frank you wonder why I was up there wigging out?”
    His vicious reply, “YOU WENDY WIG OUT?”
    A three-way conversation ensued between myself ‘ole Frank and prosecutor…
    we all concluded it was criminal….
    and again my voice muffled silent. Amen.

  97. My Andrea sent a cute postcard; it’s from North American Wildlife.
    It is a baby coyote singing out his song with little mouth wide-opened indeed! Very Cute.
    She says she found it in Vegas; they just had gone hiking in Mountain Charleston.
    Roam If You Want To…Roam Around The World…..
    I sure wish I owned a radio. Can anyone tell? pray tell?

  98. Rick/tenn activist @ 114:
    Wow rick! I think thats the first time I’ve seen you so verbal! I feel like that always! What do these pricks care bout us. Long as they keep us under boot, they could care less. FFS you see states that cant make thier budget and what do they do first? They start cutting the poor and education. NOT thier pet projects,not their 6 figure incomes or entitlements…the poor. Tell us to tighten our belts while they let theirs out a notch.How much of a raise did our leaders give themselves this last time? 17% ? Dont hear that on mainstream media do we?
    Something thats bothering me is some of the laws they have or are slipping passed everyone. Obama said no taxes on those that make 250k or less? Well thats funny, they change some wording then introduce a bill called cap and trade,other wise known as a tax on everyone for everything they buy. But they refuse to tax cannabis? WTF is going on in this country?
    I believe in our fight here,but, I see our leaders moving us toward total ban on all things deemed bad for us,alcohol and tobacco included. I see our laws becoming tighter and stricter via laws we know nothing about. How many times of late have laws been signed that nobody even read?How many of the masses REALLY had a say or agreed to these bils and laws? I dont like to sound biblical, I question things of that nature as much as I do every thing else around me,but if there is an end coming many of the things happening sure point to it.
    There are many countries around the world that are laughing…LAUGHING at us here in the US. They see how our leaders are driving us into the ground,they see how our leaders self importance is ruining this great land.They and our enemies dont need to attack us,we are detroying ourselves. Our leaders ,I feel ,Dont think their ‘RULE’ can end. It can…swiftly.
    Where do we go from here? One day at a time til the truth is revealed, for the lust for greed and power will surely take this country there.
    I must sign off now…

  99. NORTHERN EXPOSURE A GREETING CARD COMPANY…
    sends us this one…..
    a large adorable grey sleuthe sittin on an outhouse?
    Santa Rosa, California…..
    Peace Be Unto Oh Yee Saints….
    It was another of my very real birthday cards. Oh…what a contemplation….after all…Tee Hee.
    My children know me very well.
    They have slept within the rain forests at their own free will and that is a fact.
    They have seen the sleuthes in person up front close and personal. Amen. This world really rocks, or is a rock or..or is it? Amen.
    Another creep’s name bytheway just popped into my conscience; Ogden Sheriff Dep Ogden…I cried to him that the non-disclosure of my assailants’ names were being withheld from me for years.
    …I humblye begged this prick oh and it’s always on camera…I told him it was making me sick and suicidal…the oppression of the truth….does anyone reading want to know this prick’s response to me?
    Wendy…a sick tiny woman begging for mercy for having done nothing.
    Ogden said, “Suicidal? Well now he took the stance… there ain’t no laws against that now is there?”
    I drug him to the mental health clinic that day. (Coaxed him to please follow me…)
    He did so..but only to make another total mockery of the illness they were shoving down my throat.
    I want him locked up to. With To Also To Wither Until Death.
    All Yee Rest.
    Protect Our Lord I Pray.
    It is all of the rest of these fucks.
    That’s their names from now on and foerever more. Amen.

  100. And the first one of ya that labels me Tokyo Rose has had it to. Just kidding Tee Hee Tee Hee Tee Hee.
    Speaking of Tea Party Frank ( )?
    I shall make myself a cup of tea right now.
    Won’t you come on over and join me sometime?
    I put it in writing….what do ya want it engraved in gold?
    Okay…so be it. Amen.

  101. My Dear Debbie just sent me her Serenity Prayer.
    It came from…
    The Serenity Prayer is most commonly attributed to Reinhold Niebuhr.
    Although there is some evidence that it existed before he popularized it in the 1930’s.
    This prayer became well known with its adoption by Alcoholics Anonymous in 1941.
    Daily Inspirational Quote…Jonathan Lodgewood Huie
    (7-11-09).
    Insights For Living An Inspired Life.
    God Grant Me The Serenity
    To Accept The Things I Cannot Change;
    Courage To Change The Things I Can;
    And Wisdom To Know The Diffeence.
    To apply this great wisdom…
    1. The past cannot be changed, so what therefor to do is to accept what has been with no regrets, no resentments, and no call for vengenace.

  102. 2. Remember that there are a “million” wrong things in the world (as well as “a billion right things”), so focus your energies on addressing with courage the few issues closest to your heart, and accept the rest of life with serenity.

  103. 3. Never waste your time or energy complaining. Either take positive action, or accept with serenity. This is especially true with regard to politics and money.
    Note: To Deb, thanx friend, urdear2my*heart!
    I love the names Serenity and ‘Jonathan’ I had chosen as my baby boy’s names. They were of course girls.
    Amen.

  104. Mary Ruth Hammond took some things I had written and published/republished them as being her own making.
    This is the good ‘ole gals at work in good ‘ole Utah.
    Mary Ruth Hammond accepted an award that Year from Utah for the publication issue of…
    ….and are ya ready now….
    FACES IN THE SHADOWS.
    Take her down.
    Amen Amen Amen.
    I submitted something anonymously but within the eye of the storm of turbulance unleased upon my sanity, told this fuck over the telephone that the letter I had written was really mine. I told Mary Ruth that my Aunt had inspired my ‘poem’.
    She knew it was mine then and the fuck fuck fuck lieing old bitch whore blatantly stole my work as her own and …..
    …..and are ya ready now….
    COVERED IT UP TOO!
    Amen Amen Amen.
    I do believe there is a law somewhere upon our good books regarding plagerism.

  105. P.S. Mary Ruth Hammond….do you remember me now?
    u.m.m.h a few day’s ago at my nieces’s baby shower you looked like you had seen a ghost!
    u.m.m.m.h
    Do you remember me now Mary Ruth?
    I watched as you watched the federal court proceedings.
    Wendy ReNae Warr Elorriaga
    You took away my right to freedom of the press now didn’t ya dear old fucking mary ruth hammond.
    Go to hell. I command thee now in the name of Jesus Christ Our Lord And Saviour. Amen. Amen. Amen.

  106. THE BEVERLY HILLS BILLIES
    NOW LISTEN TO MY STORY ABOUT A MAN NAMED JED
    A POOR MOUNTAINEER BARELY KEPT HIS FAMILY FED
    AND THEN ONE DAY HE WAS SHOOTING AT SOME FOOD
    AND UP FROM THE GROUND CAME A BUBBLELING CRUDE….
    OIL THAT IS…TEXAS….TEA…!
    BLACK GOLD!
    NOW YA ALL COME BACK NOW YA HERE.
    IN MEMORY OF JED AND ELLY MAE CLAMPIT GOD REST THEIR SOULS IN HEAVEN AMEN.

  107. Here is one of the reasonings one of those past years for the disability commission to help a disabled person becoming more disabled not her funds.
    The wrote back and told me that I couldn’t have money. That I would spend it all on marijuana. I am not lieing. I promise.
    That’s how they got the title to my house right now.
    Another reason I was denied benefits for so long?
    A fuck a fuck a fucking ruling judge deemed upon himself that year I walked on the cane hobbling that mental illnes and I will quote my S.S.A. Attorney, “did not believe in mental illness.”
    I was sick, they were making me sicker and sicker for years on purpose with their fuck closed minds.
    I want a retro-active payment now due and payable me with interest.
    And then they denied I waa sick.
    And our youngest brother collected for thrity years or so; all of those funds all went to the casinos and brothels. He didn’t need the money in other words. He has always remained with our mother.
    Amen.
    He is a very able-bodied man.
    He to has been brainwashed his entire life that he is crazy but he is not either.
    And all I could ever do is WORK LIKE A MAN. (flagging, construction, etc.) as I knew this one laid on his ass.
    All our mother could ever do and still does to this day is mock me.
    Tear me to shreds, every chance I give her, with every fiber of my being.
    She is a sociopathe.
    Amen.

  108. I will swear out against her too.
    She threatened to cut our tongues out when we were kids.
    She threatened to have us buried alive.
    She told me that my Father was buried alive.
    She denies that I have been harmed.
    She last week told me face to face what a loser, slacker, no good, good for nothing I am with “nothing to show for all of that money I won”.
    She always denied my illness. Oh what a battle imposed.
    She puts herself and her oldest pedophile upon a golden pedastal. Always has, Always Did, always will.
    Amen.

  109. When they had scooped me up in an ambulance a few years back and took me to Salt Lake…
    …she called the hospital and we hardly ever speak anyway but she said, “w-w-h-a-t-t d-o-o-o y-oo-uu
    think you are doing”!
    fuck iceburg indeed

  110. P.S. I finally put into black and white writing on Father’s Day this year to the Tooele County Officials.
    My mom clubbed my dad to death on his death bed, wash up the blood, and let him die!
    She and the youngest fuck are responsible for Edward Clayton Warr’s death.
    A fuck sister mormon from St. Geroge fuck drunk fuck weed fuck phoney wrote the lie in my Dad’s obituary that he died ‘peacefully’ at home.
    Officer ( ) it’s coming to me now; took my written report.
    I want a lie detector test performed regarding my father’s wrongful death.
    They will not, cannot, do not, forget-me-not respond.
    These fucks in Tooele have all had it to.
    I am sick and tired and fed up to the hilt of their criminal mischieve.
    I pray now to the God Oh Lord!
    May We Plese Take Them Down Yet?
    Amen.
    Cease and Desist I command you.
    Amen.

  111. Judd and Will Ericson are reponsible for the wrongful death of my sister, Kimberly Jean Warr.
    It happened in 1996. That’s when the half million in weed was in the skull valley desert. Will and Judd were growing it under full non-disclosure to the law.
    Kimmee Chaun, was chased down to her wrongful death.
    Amen.
    Will and Judd Ericson. The record is all in black and white. And no I am not afraid.
    Kimme Chaun
    You’re Not Really Gone
    You Are With Us More Than Ever
    I Clearly See You In The Clouds
    With Your Baby Girl, Forever.
    We took your advice
    we never think twice
    to listen to our hearts now
    and what You are Saying In Beautiful Song
    You’re Not Really Gone.
    Amen.

  112. 103 THESEUS FROM ATHENS…Manny here!
    You know what Mantodea means…prophet. Now put your open hands, palms facing forward, cross your arms at the wrist, and push them forwards and backwards. You should be glad. That woman (not lady) is not for you.
    Beauty is only skin deep. That woman has no depth, no Soul…and…very little mind or class.
    Wendy…..”La Aguila”
    You know the difference between Later Day Saints and Mormones, or should I say Jack Mormones.
    and
    Aspirin is an analgesic. So is cannabis…but…you can O.D. to death on aspirin.
    There is a “Final Judgement”…and…116 Vetter knows it. We all know these yutzes are going to have to face their maker. Oh boy!!! We can’t wait for that.
    117,118 Paul
    Cannabis for THC…and…Hemp for commercial use, should never be put close together. The 2% hemp will destroy the high % cannabis.

  113. Dear Cherokee Fred Jesus:
    How do you spell relief?
    How do you spell tele-connect-ick energy.
    Tele-pathic.
    Tele-someone?
    Tele-conieses?
    Tele-another human being.
    Tele-Performance
    Tele-vision
    Tele-friend
    Tele-video
    Tele-Metical/Physical Form or Forum.
    Amen.

  114. Dear Jesus:
    The Very REAL ONE;
    I wonder how tactical diplomatic dispatch of local armed forced is spelled?
    Perhaps deployment?
    Official Deployment?
    To The United States Citizens Of OUR Country?
    Amen.

  115. #147 Wendy from Good ‘ole Utah Says:
    July 14th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
    THE BEVERLY HILLS BILLIES
    NOW LISTEN TO MY STORY ABOUT A MAN NAMED JED
    A POOR MOUNTAINEER BARELY KEPT HIS FAMILY FED
    AND THEN ONE DAY HE WAS SHOOTING AT SOME FOOD
    AND UP FROM THE GROUND CAME A BUBBLELING CRUDE….
    OIL THAT IS…TEXAS….TEA…!
    BLACK GOLD!
    RE:
    Before you know it, all the kinfolk are sayin’
    Yeah, buddy, move away from there,
    That litttle Clampett got his own cement-pond,
    That little Clampett, he’s a millionaire
    Everyone said California
    is the place you oughta be…

  116. Under the latest appeals court ruling in Butte county V Butte County Superior Court, you can indeed sue the police for this very thing. It also clearly states that members may simply contribute financially, and that NO LOCAL ORDINANCE can override state law.
    “For Immediate Release: July 1st, 2009
    Landmark Ruling Issued on Collective Cultivation of Medical Marijuana
    Appellate court protects collective cultivation and affirms civil actions by patients
    Sacramento, CA — The California Third District Court of Appeal issued a landmark ruling today on the right under state law of patients to collectively cultivate. The 2-1 appellate court decision stems from the case County of Butte v. Superior Court involving a private medical marijuana collective of 7 patients in Paradise, California. The nationwide advocacy group Americans for Safe Access (ASA) filed a lawsuit in May 2006 on behalf of 56-year-old David Williams and six other collective members after a 2005 warrantless search of his home. Williams was forced by the Butte County Sheriff to uproot more than two-dozen plants or face arrest and prosecution. Contrary to state law, which allows for collective cultivation, Williams was told by the Sheriff that it was not lawful to grow collectively for multiple patients.
    “This ruling by the California Courts sends yet another strong message to state law enforcement that they must abide by the medical marijuana laws of the state and not the competing federal laws,” said Joe Elford, ASA Chief Counsel and the attorney that litigated the case on behalf of Williams. Today’s appellate court ruling affirmed this position by concluding that, “the deputy was acting under color of California law, not federal law. Accordingly, the propriety of his conduct is measured by California law.”
    The appellate court also stated that to deny patients protection from warrantless intrusions and seizures by law enforcement “would surely shock the sensibilities of the voters who approved [Proposition 215].” Especially worthy of note is the appellate court’s assertion that the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 is not simply an affirmative defense to criminal sanctions, but “…we see an opportunity for an individual to request the same constitutional guarantee of due process available to all individuals, no matter what their status, under the state Constitution. The fact that this case involves medical marijuana and a qualified medical marijuana patient does not change these fundamental constitutional rights or an individual’s right to assert them.”
    Today’s appellate court decision upholds Butte County Superior Court Judge Barbara Roberts’ ruling from September 2007, in which she states that seriously ill patients cultivating collectively “should not be required to risk criminal penalties and the stress and expense of a criminal trial in order to assert their rights.” Judge Roberts’ ruling also rejected Butte County’s policy of requiring all members to physically participate in the cultivation, thereby allowing collective members to “contribute financially.”
    Even in his dissenting opinion, Court of Appeal Judge James Morrison stated that, “the United States Congress should reconsider its refusal to amend the federal drug laws to make reasonable accommodation for the 13 states that have enacted some form of compassionate use exception to their penal codes.”
    ASA was compelled to file the Williams lawsuit after receiving repeated reports of unlawful behavior by Butte County law enforcement, as well as by other police agencies throughout the state. After uncovering Butte County’s de facto ban on medical marijuana patient collectives, ASA decided to pursue the case to show that collectives and cooperatives are protected under state law. “In addition to protecting patients’ right to collectively cultivate, the Court has reaffirmed that medical marijuana patients enjoy the same constitutional rights as everyone else, including the ability to file civil rights actions when those rights are violated,” continued Elford.
    This ruling came down just after the police chiefs put out this rag.
    It could be considered RICO, since they know they are violating the law.

  117. RE:
    That’s how it’s supposed to be…
    – However,
    some departments accept federal-money,
    (i.e. Byrne-Grants),
    and / or are located in
    highly-federalized areas of the state,
    (i.e. the U.S. – Mexican border,
    national-parks, etc, for example),
    perceiving themselves as
    more obligated to
    enforce federal-law,
    rather than
    state-law…
    It is a direct violation of the California Constitution for the police to enforce federal law over state law.

  118. Pray tell…a Byrne Grant…what the hell is that…a federal bribe. State law is “the law” of the state. What are we talking about here…medicinal use…
    religious use…WHAT!…because any other use is illegal. Not only does gov. have its head up its ass, it’s cork-screwed up there…but…it’s business as usual.

  119. #163 Anonymous Says:
    July 19th, 2009 at 7:11 am
    “Pray tell…a Byrne Grant…what the hell is that…
    a federal bribe.
    RE: You could say that…
    Drug Policy Alliance article:
    Drug War Funding:
    The Byrne Grant Program



    “The Byrne Justice Assistance Grant program
    provides hundreds of millions of dollars a year
    to local and state crime prevention initiatives.
    In recent years the program has come under
    scrutiny for its role in perpetuating racial disparities,
    police corruption, and civil rights abuses.
    This is especially true when it comes to the program’s
    funding of hundreds of regional anti-drug task forces across the country…..”

  120. 164 Neurogenesis1:29
    Thanks for the info. Good clarification. I knew there was something deeply wrong with that grant/bribe
    shit. Good to here from you again. You know who.

  121. To me this board is just mental masturbation, who do you think reads this crap, the cops. Gee I’m a cop and now that I’ve read this shit I’m going to leave everybody alone now. The only road to freedom is through revolution, plane and simple. Are forefathers tried this bullshit for several hundred years and it still took bloodshed to change things, do you really believe humans are different now, come on! People who have the power, no matter what that power is will not give it up easily, just the way it is. So if your not willing to fight, please then, shut the fuck up!

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