Though the race for California‘s next Attorney General still officially remains undecided, Republican candidate Steve Cooley is now leading Democrat Kamala Harris by some 26,000 votes. The Los Angeles Times reports that at least 850,000 ballots — mostly mail-in ballots that arrived in election offices on election day — still need to be counted, and that the race remains far from over.
The race for California Attorney General has significant implications for the distribution of medical cannabis in California, as Cooley has previously pledged to prosecute dispensaries that engage in over-the-counter cash sales of marijuana to authorized patients. In October, while serving as Los Angeles District Attorney, Cooley declared that state law bars sales of medical marijuana, and opined: “The vast, vast, vast majority, about 100%, of dispensaries in Los Angeles County and the city are operating illegally, they are dealing marijuana illegally. … The time is right to deal with this problem.”
Present Attorney General guidelines, issued under former A.G. (now Governor-elect) Jerry Brown in 2008, authorize the distribution and non-profit sales of medical cannabis in California by qualified “collectives and cooperatives,” but warn that ‘storefront’ business that engage in the for-profit sales of medical marijuana “are likely operating outside the protections” of state law. Cooley has long maintained that California dispensaries that engage in over-the-counter sales to customers do not meet a legal definition of ‘collectives’ or ‘not-for-profit’ entities.
By contrast, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has previously voiced strong support for protecting the legal rights of patients who use cannabis medicinally.
In Arizona, Proposition 203 is still trailing — now by some 6,600 votes — with more than 100,000 still remaining to be counted. If passed, the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act, would permit state-registered patients to obtain cannabis legally from licensed facilities.
Arizonans have twice before — in 1996 and again in 1998 — voted in favor of medical marijuana ballot measures, though neither proposal was ever enacted by the legislature. This year’s proposal was sponsored by the Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project, an affiliate of the Marijuana Policy Project.
In Michigan, voters elected vocal medical marijuana opponent Bill Schuette to be the state’s next Attorney General. Schuette was a vocal opponent against Proposal 1, the 2008 voter initiative that legalized the physician-authorized use of medical cannabis. While running for Attorney General, Schuette continued to campaign against both medical marijuana and broader efforts to halt the prosecution of non-medical consumers. Since the election, however, Schuette has yet to weigh in on whether he will use his office to target and prosecute the state’s emerging medical cannabis dispensaries.
Finally, in Connecticut, state officials have officially declared Democrat Dan Malloy as the state’s next Governor. Malloy had been in an exceedingly close race with Republican opponent Tom Foley.
Malloy has reportedly voiced support for decriminalizing marijuana for adults, and also supports the legalization of medical cannabis. Malloy’s predecessor, Republican M. Jodi Rell, vetoed legislation in 2007 that would have allowed for the legal use of marijuana by those authorized by their physician. In recent years, lawmakers in Connecticut have expressed support for both medical marijuana and decriminalization.
sucks for the “i gots mine” crowd. you should have voted to legalize marijuana or want it legalized.
What the hell is wrong with California? Why cant we get these props passed? Why do we keep bringing this politicians that keep putting us back years in regulation and reform. This has been going since the 70’s. Why cant we get these bastards flushed down the toilet. They are swayed by money and greed. Cooley is just another tool for big business. He is just a puppet for corporate greed.
Just like , fatty Cooley we got other some FAT guy out here in Cali. that’s trying to shut down medical MARIJUANA dispensaries and he admits to his love of
beer .
I don’t get it . The problem is Alcohol in this world but they’re trying to make everybody think that MARIJUANA is the problem .
It doesn’t make sense .
You know what? The “No on 19” stoners will get exactly what they deserve with Cooley. I hope he wins and goes after medical MJ HARD. It’ll only increase the vote share for legalization.
Only sick people should be guying “medical marijuana” anyways. The whole California system is a ridiculous fig leaf, and it’s the main reason why Prop 19 failed.
If you think pot should be legal for recreational purposes, then support that. But do not support recreational smoking via loose medical MJ laws. Not anymore. We’re past the point where that helps our movement.
to all the medical marajuana growers and other growers who voted no on prop 19 because of thier selfish greed , what u gonna do now when your attorny general cooley comes after you . guess you should have voted for prop 19 huh
Being from Az.and having voted ‘YES’ on 203 . I can say I am very disappointed in Arizona and Cali’s prop 19. As paul said any one voting against these measures are really saying they would rather spend their tax dollars on stupid prohibitionist laws.
I purposely educate all people I know about the misconceptions of marijuana.
It is time to LEGALIZE PERIOD.
All of the tax dollars we spend on marijuana arrests would go along way to balancing a few budgets around the U.S. But GOVERNMENT is too busy spending those dollars to arrest you.WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE IS NOONE LEFT TO VOTE FOR THESE POLITICAL LOSERS
MAYBE WE THE PEOPLE NEED TO DO A BLANKET NO CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT.
The longer marijuana is illegal the more the war on drugs tries to stop the flow of marijuana into this country the bloodier it is going to get on this side of the border,but that is what these bordere politicians want so they can get more money to fight the war on drugs!!!!!Quit voting for the same losers over and over again.If they make a promise then renig.VOTE THEM BASTURDS OUT.QUIT MAKING CAREER POLITICIANS OUT OF THESE RIP OFFS
TOO MANY STUPID PEOPLE WHO ALWAYS IGNORE THE FACTS! UNBELIEVABLE!!
I SHOOT @ #3 MARSH MELLOW. HE IS COMPLETELY RIGHT!
I hate to say this, but Cooley winning that election might actually be good for 2012 legalization efforts. Like that the medical community won’t be sitting on their pompous ass next election rounds. I hope a couple of those greedy growers and collective owners that voted No 19 get raided to. Fuck em. Sorry Californian’s you fucked yourselves over, better luck next election. Learn from your mistakes.
And what all disp owners ignore is that all the Federal
protection they have is a memo,changeable at the whim of the govt.
As a side note, I think it’s ridiculous collectives have to be non-for profit. With that logic, I think that anyone who provides pharmaceuticals should do it non-for profit too… Those fuckers.
Cooley states that “Now is a great time” to crack down on cannabis. To me this notion is laughable. We have come so far, the exposure is out and too many people know the truth about the lies. Unjust raids that follow will only fuel the legalization movement. Bring it Cooley, Prepare to fail abysmally when you are presented with the data of how counter-effective and costly your crusade on MJ turns out to be.
Just thought I had to reiterate, I sincerely hope Cooley wins and prosecutes all those dispensaries, dealers, and others who voted no and ruined California’s chance to start the snowball effect of legalization… That is all
Good thing i live in colorado. Srry cali pot heads. Shit gets rough sometimes but you’ll make it through.
I join those others in saying to the Vote-No on 19 Smokers–looks like your karma is already coming back to bite your greedy A**es!
Im probably one of the few people that actually took the time to read Prop 19. While I completely support the legalization of marijuana; I could not / would not have voted yes on 19 the way it was written. Simply said it was far to broad and overreaching in it initial attempt. (Hello baby steps anyone)
If I was pressed to point out one specific issue it would have to be the 25sqft parcel for cannibas production. Honestly, this was truely idea that if implimented would have brought back prohibition and undermined years progressive thinking in a blink of an eye. Its odd but if Prop 19 was aloud to pass it just might have been the worst thing that could have happened to the movement.
If you read this board often you know that Im all for legalization but in a sensible “All Grow Up” matter of fact kinda of way.
I wish I had more time to flesh out what im saying here but i have to go for now….see ya.
[Editor’s note: Your comments are illogical. You claim to support legalization, but you voted no on an initiative that effectively ended the practice of Cannabis Prohibition…for the stated reason that allowing a 5 X 5 canopy to grow unregulated and untaxed cannabis for personal consumption is a return to Prohibition and retards progress makes absolutely no sense at all.
Thanks for siding with law enforcement, drug treatment centers, alcohol industry, Scientologists, the drug czar and Meg Whitman in voting ‘no’ on Prop. 19! Thanks for making ending eight decades of Cannabis Prohibition even harder with your illogical vote FOR prohibition.]
im gonna start placing signs with http://www.norml.com educate yourself nothing to fear but fear itself this coming weekend all over my town here in vinita oklahoma
UPDATE * UPDATE * UPDATE
ARIZONA PROPOSITION 203
As of Monday, November 8, 2010
at 7:28 PM
( still more ballots to be counted)
Percent Votes
YES 49.89% 786,561
NO 50.11% 790,050
Total 1,576,611
Difference 3,489 votes ( 0.22% )
Stay tuned ! Go 203 !
Legalize Brazilllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Haha god damnit I can only hope the assholes in CA get the hammer brought down on them hard. Greedy, selfish fucks. I hope Cooley goes to every grower in the Emerald Triangle and burns every damn plant and arrests every cock sucking grower. Maybe even go bust some mom and pop dispensaries.
All could have been avoided if they voted yes on prop 19, now look, their medical rights are really going to get violated.
Love me some karma.
can a nationwide petition be passed around in an effort to get ol’ gil and these others with the verbal diarrea to debate?I thought that if you make statements you are required to back them up.It is way past time that our gov’t be put in its place on prohibition.It is time to tell them that we are tired of beating this dead and decayed horse.what does it really accomplish?nothing but filling their pockets with taxpayer dollers.
Befor yall give any money to a prg you need to as what have this org ddone to get pewpply to regstar to vote and vote. You can make all the great spaahs and show the facts about cannabis but till you can get this dume shits to reg and vote we will nevery win.
I hope Malloy comes through from his past experience as a prosecutor and decriminalizes/ passes medical legislation in Ct. We all need to end the charade of prosecuting smokers of a plant that medical organizations assert has theraputic value; while looking the other way as a deadly, addictive, non-medicinal plant is being openly sold and smoked in public. Not one medical organization supports any medicinal use for tobacco-no one argues against its’ use being deadly; yet our “right” to smoke it is protected? Its’ time we compare marijuana to tobacco-not alcohol. And use common sense-not fear to craft our laws.
why are they still counting votes for Gov. but they already said no for prop 19? how does this work?
Why would ANYONE who supports an end to the insanity of marijuana prohitibion vote NO on 19? I understand the greed of those who already have “theirs” , but not the general legalization public. One more thing, if you are going to post in support of legalization then do so with the aid of a dictionary. How are we going to shake the “stoner” stereotype if our posts look like they were oomposed by a 5th grader?
Well now, I bet some California people are wishing they would have voted yes on 19. Bye Bye greedy growers and medical users. I do feel bad for the really sick people who do need it. Hopefully they will still be able to get theirs. One side of me says Ha Ha thats what you get. The other side says don’t laugh our chance is coming here in Colorado in 2yrs.
fuck it let them try, maybe they don’t realize that it doesn’t matter if people who smoke weed get it legally or illegally all the people that smoke it will find a way to smoke it, and if they wanna keep it illegal then they must want the economy to crash cuz a lot of people buy it illegally which takes money out of circulation lol so let them try to be stricter and see if it fuckin works
As a Californian with a valid medical pot “recommendation,” who currently is allowed to grow her own “medicine,” I’m sick that Prop 19 didn’t pass, -AND- that Steve Cooley will probably be our next AG!
The anti-Prop 19 contingent spread unsubstantiated fears, ESPECIALLY the 1 about its “changing” our Prop 215 med pot laws. It’s ironic, because now these same “naysayers,” could find themselves in jeopardy, since they voted AGAINST Prop 19, -AND- elected Steve Cooley as the AG! And, I agree with Rick/#6 above, in that their opposition was based on 1 thing, and 1 thing only: GREED, and MORE GREED.
Apparently, the opposition wants to continue the status quo, with persecution-and-prosecution of Californians for marijuana “crimes” in lockstep with the Feds “mind set” — it’s a Schedule I drug, it’s a “gateway” drug, it’s addictive, blah, blah, blah… wake up people — some have suggested that pot is “already legal” in California, so why do we need Prop 19? “LEGAL”? Tell that to my friends who are in jail right now for “possession” — and these folks were NOT arrested for sales, or for trafficking, but for possessing a small, personal amount of pot.
The anti-Prop 19 side has just “cut off their nose to spite their face,” and with Steve Cooley at the helm, who tends to favor “federal law” OVER “state law,” even those of us with “legal” med pot “scrips” better look out!
I also agree with those who think Prop 19’s loss WILL help state legalization pass in 2012, so I consider that a small “good thing” that comes out of this election.
Finally, make sure you’re registered to vote, and then, VOTE!! My old man and I vote via “mail” ballots (they used to be called “absentee”), a SUPER-EASY way to vote, that’s very convenient. We don’t even have to pay for the postage stamp, because we drop them off on election day at 1 of the many polling places!
Let’s “do it” in 2012, brothers and sisters! And all of you currently “in the pot business,” who voted AGAINST Prop 19, SHAME ON YOU!! Your “motives” are the basest of all, GREED, where the black market affords you obscene profits. Prop 19 would’ve allowed MORE pot to be grown, so prices would’ve come down, but there would’ve been a thriving, competitive, free marijuana market, where ANYONE could make as much money as they wanted (depending on the effort put into it). Not like it is now, with a small coterie of growers, who have a monopoly on pot commerce.
I also found it hypocritical that so many CA med pot patients were against Prop 19, with some even saying marijuana is valid as a “medicine,” but not necessarily as a “recreational” substance! I guess that faction, too, prefers “recreational” pot users be jailed, while they simultaneously use it for “medicinal” purposes!
Now with Steve Cooley dictating CA “law-and-order,” these same hypocrites may find that that med pot card they’re carrying is pretty much worthless, and offers little “pot-protection,” with law enforcement treating a med pot user exactly the same as a recreational pot user.
Stay Aware, Stay High and Peace!
I’d like to see more ads depicting SWAT teams bashing down doors and shooting people…
like a scene of a few college buddies playing cards… and one throws up his hands in fear, getting shot by a trigger-happy cop. People scream, cry, etc.
Or a scene with a handicapped person being roughed up at a dispensary.
Punchline: This happens more than you think (give a statistic)
Or:
Is Cannabis Prohibition worth it?
Or:
What have we done?
We won’t win unless we get people scared. Fear works, just ask prohibitionists.
fuk cooley
YOU ARE ALL IDIOTS!!!! Ben, and brian especially-you fools. I voted NO. i did because prop 19 was a bullshit measure taken by politicians to stuff their pockets full of money. did ANY OF YOU REALIZE that all the taxes that wouldve been taken from pot sales were not allocated to go to specific sources. All literature on the measure stated “taxes from marijuana sales COULD go to this and COULD go towards that…” NONE of the literature specified what or where money made on taxes would go; which makes it uber easy for corrupt politicians to stuff their pockets like meg whitman or the governor jerry brown do.
ill vote yes when the state legislature outlines where taxes from pot sales are designated to go.
[Editor’s note: Ugh. Another fool who voted against his self interest because of something that was not true! Prop 19 was not created by politicians you idiot, it was paid for and championed by cannabis law reform activists.
Thanks for siding with the narcs, Diane Feinstein, all of the former heads of the DEA and the booze industry, claiming you care about where your precious tax pennies are going to go post legalization….you’ve shown either you’re really profoundly ignorant or your truest colors.]
Will this lead to war if the new cal (A-G) is elctive and start doing what he said he will do? Will there be sniper fire on law men and women. I hope not. But one day the goverment will go all the way to the right wing side and use this war on cannbisa for reson to envade our home with out a search warrnet. It will happen. Will you be ready to pick up your gun and defend our country from our goverment.
I guess all you California haters didn’t notice that we elected the most pot friendly governor and lieutenant governor we have ever had. The ex mayor’s of the two most pot friendly cities in our state. Sorry to say they will keep Steve Cooley in his place. Too bad Steve and you haters won’t be getting your way. Wish you well in changing your own states.
[Paul Armentano responds: Have you noticed that county law enforcement have already begun the process of raiding dispensaries. See San Jose for exhibit A:
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_16568035
Some San Jose pot clubs shut down in protest of aggressive police raids
In recently unsealed affidavits attached to two of the raids, narcotics agents accused the dispensaries of selling pot for profit, violating state guidelines that medical marijuana be distributed only by nonprofits.
… “I believe that it is highly improbable Angel’s Care Collective generated no profit from projected annual sales of $5,880,000, with a 75 percent markup on their marijuana,” wrote agent Dean Ackemann.
The thousands of “members” — Angel’s Care reported 6,500 — had no responsibilities or duties toward their cooperative/collective, documents said, other than the right to purchase pot.
These, of course, are the same arguments Cooley has made as to why he believes that virtually all dispensaries violate state law. Gov-elect Jerry Brown’s own guidelines drew a similar conclusion. Expect to see much more of this sort of police activity if/when Cooley is sworn in.]
Battering Ram Raid Of Legal Seattle Patient By Machine Gun-Toting Officers Results In Review
http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2010/11/botched_raid_mayor_to_meet_with_cops_about_pot_enf.php
“Is it our job to compromise the investigation to give the benefit of doubt to people?”
“We’re not giving — the law doesn’t give ”
Where is Eric Holder? Where is Obama?
The hounds are restless
I live in Cali, and I did vote yes on 19. How ever, weeks before the election I found that most Cannibus Consumers I knew were going to vote No. Now, I didn’t just ask my local stoners union, I asked the squares and people that can’t vote, you know just to get a feel on where my community was at. It was overwhelmingly No. Most people that supported Prop 19 were most often the people in the community that were very anti-marijuana. I could tell, just from talking to the majority of people in my town that Cali wouldn’t pass the prop. My town isn’t very large but we do have a huge pot culture here, along with some other drug subcultures that make it more difficult to be a Cannibus Consumer here. Oh, and on a side note: why is everyone thats not from Cali hoping we all get busted and what-not??? Thats not very stoner friendly. Plus we supply many parts of the U.S. with some very quality bud… I’m not mad, I’m just sayin…
[Editor’s note: Your friends who voted against Prop. 19 demonstrate a disturbing parochialism over pragmatism. You want folks around the country to be ‘stoner friendly’ when your friends voted to keep the profits uber-high from Cannabis Prohibition-supported prices is what is NOT cool.
With indoor cultivation and an outdoor grow season in all fifty states cannabis consumers need California growers like a fish needs a bicycle. Remember: Consumers, not producers are always in the driver seat and CA growers need not pretend cannabis is being ‘supplied’, it is being sold at prices many multiples of the production value, which is another prime reason prohibition has to end–as long as there is a price support created by Cannabis Prohibition, patients and consumers do not have access to best product at lowest costs. Period.]
Update to Comment #20
UPDATE * UPDATE * UPDATE
ARIZONA PROPOSITION 203
As of Tuesday, November 9, 2010
at 3:55 PM (MT)
( YET, still more ballots to be counted and qualified ? )
(mostly Provisionals, w some Mail-Ins)
Percent Votes
YES 49.92% 790,096
NO 50.08% 792,472
Total 1,582,568
2,376 vote DEFICIT ( 0.16% difference )
A slight improvement, though still losing,
On Comment #20 UPDATE above, it WAS
3,489 vote deficit ( 0.22% difference)
Stay tuned !
Go 203 !
AZ owes a debt of gratitude to:
MPP, Rob Kampia, especially Andrew Myers, and everyone who made
efforts and/or contributions of $ and/or time toward this Prop.
FREE MARC EMERY !
Bless Jack Herer !
Here is url link to AZ Sec of State election web site.
Up dates are sporadic. Be sure to compare date and time of update
in upper left of page.
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/AZ/22333/39980/en/summary.html
you wanna know why, check your county procedures on counting votes and see how far you get. That’s why.
oh, and enough ignorant people react to the things that are most obvious to them; a commercial, a sign on the road, what the “smart circles” are saying at bingo, ect. ect.
it’s too easy to convince this populace,and it is even easier to fill in the gaps at the margins.
and obama is partying in India at 200 million a day
not hypocrisy, but the legalization of marijuana
We walked together VIVA LA MARIJUANA.
not hypocrisy, yes legalization of marijuana
We walked together VIVA LA MARIJUANA.
To janja guru I hope that everyone who reads this will bobcott everything coming out of N Cali.
Hopefully everyone in the cannabis community learns from CA’s mistakes. One thing is for certain next time: all our brothers and sisters must be united behind legalization initiatives!
This in-fighting is absurd, but it is disturbing that norml editors are stooping down to the level of name calling. That is not professional and not proactive. However, I was VERY impressed with Russ Belville’s recent blog. Restored some of my faith in NORML and it was a very very good look forward. Hear, hear to Russ!
It is my understanding that most pro-legalization/anti-prop-19 people DIDN’T vote. I respect that, even if I disagree with their reasoning. I very much disagree with voting NO on prop 19. That was a vote FOR the prohibitionists.
There is only one thing we can do now, and that’s look forward, to ensure 2012 is the year of legalization.
As a relatively impartial observer of prop 19 (I am a NH resident), who understands the arguments of both “sides,” I do not understand why anyone who is pro-legalization voted NO, unless you directly profit from the continued psuedo-prohibition in California. If you just simply disagreed with the written language of prop 19, you should have abstained from that single vote, while still voting for your legislatures. Voting NO was a vote FOR the prohibitionists. There is a HUGE difference between not voting on prop 19 in protest and voting NO.
While the fate of prop 19 was ambiguous, THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR COOLEY TO WIN. Prop 19 could have gone either way for many reasons, but to (likely) elect a prohibitionist neocon destroyer of liberty as your governor, is just inexcusable.
Steve Cooley did not win!
[Paul Armentano responds: Correct; votes are continuing to be counted — though Cooley still leads. The official decision may still be one to two weeks away. I believe the post made this clear.]
Next time, the campaign should start a separate campaign: “Stoners Against Voting No on Legalization: If you’re not gonna vote ‘yes’ don’t vote!” LOL
MPP is starting a new campaign.
To have a shot at removing the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana, we need at least 26 states to legalize medical marijuana. This will give us a clear path to victory in Congress and/or the federal courts.
[Editor’s note: MPP is incorrect…there is no need to spend another decade persuading another 12-13 states to legalize medical cannabis…especially when these states will pass very restrictive, anti-California inspired medical cannabis laws like NJ, RI, DC have recently done, and soon MD will follow.
The defeat of medical cannabis initiatives in SD, AZ and OR should be instructive of the waning political utility of medical cannabis as a reform vehicle.
Reformers should concentrate on decriminalization and legalization initiatives and legislation to maximize personal freedom and patient access to medicine at the lowest possible costs.]
the stance this website has taken is basically if you voted no…you are an idiot.
I voted no, Im completely disabled and im 25…But why dont you go read that list made of what was wrong with the bill, what can change…because THOSE are the reasons I voted no…NOT because I want to spend more money or MMJ…
also, quite frankly…your viewpoint that we must squash medical to get full legalization….I really dont try to discriminate, but its YOU GUYS…the STONERS who mess up the MMJ system in california..the people who just want to get high…they are hurting medical marijuana
if you ask me, someone who suffers every second of the day…I feel its a TAD more important for myself and others with serious issues to get it first, for it to be studied more….for them to find more ways to use it…than for people to get STONED.
priorities are SO out of whack
[Editor’s note: There was nothing in the initiative that threatened patient access to medical cannabis–it enhanced it, so great move on your part voting no to lower prices and YES to arrests, civil forfeitures, drug testing, loss of student loans…thanks for being with the ‘Just Say No’ crowd of cops, drug rehab centers, Scientologists and drug czars.
Because legalization changes the law for the better of all, where medical cannabis benefits maybe one out of nine cannabis consumers, NORML and consumers support legalization to achieve the bottom line for patients and consumers: Best product, lowest cost.
Right?
Medical cannabis does not achieve this, legalization does.]
Scare tactics and distortions.
Honestly, Cooley is right. Collectives that make profit, as all seem to do, are technically illegal. There are a plethora of abuses in the MMJ community–and, should he win, though I hope he doesn’t, I hope he does go after the illegality in the industry.
People shouldn’t provide to the extent that they do on people’s pain. Shame on them.
Oh well Cali, you had your chance. Good luck….. Now, as for Connecticut. Good for you. Maybe a state on the east coast will wake up and lead the way.
Nuts. I’m getting out of here. This is crazy. Only crazy people live in California now.
Maybe it’s too much good pot. Maybe we need to burn some commercial brickweed every now and then. You know, something with seeds in it that smells and tastes like the 70’s. Just to, you know, not forget our roots, not forget that there are still people in this state that still don’t know pot is good, and if their will was reality, we’d still be picking seeds out of our pot and getting 34 years sentences like in Texas.
Cooley. I’ve seen worse. Dan Lungren was pretty tough. His whole “toothache” angle, that was pretty sharp.
I’ll bet Lungren could whip Cooley.
We can still write Lungren and tell him we need him to instruct the DEA to move forward with NORML petitions to reschedule so that we can bring Law and Order to our marijuana community.
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
oh FYI- something is messed up with Representative webpages and they don’t always get your emails. The best way to correct this computer “glitch” is to use the zip code from the office of the Representative you are trying to contact when you’re filling out the info.
Cooley. Hopefully, He’ll do his thing in a way that makes prices come down. If they go up, that’s what he’ll wear next election. He’s surrounded by Democrats, and a Governor that wrote the guidelines on behalf of the AG office. He’s got bigger problems on his plate, but he is going to try and capitalize politically by going after medipot.
If we keep our motives pure and upright, and don’t sell out, we’ll make it through 50 Cooleys and a Lungren too!
Arizona Med Marijuana prop 203 as of 11/11/ 7:30 P.M.
no votes – 815953 or 50.03%
yes vote – 814496 or 49.96%
diff 1457
#18
You make some good points. I didnt know about the 25sqft parcel thing. After reading up on it that really would have hurt things in the long run.
Property invasion would sky rocket by weed picking teens
Prop 203 has a strong lead now.
and
Steve Cooley is losing again.
I’m from Michigan so that article on Schuette’s website really pisses me off……I left a comment on his site that is “pending approval”, but it will never get approved:
“As a Michigan resident suffering with a spinal cord injury, that left me paralyzed from the chest down, this article makes me sick. You talk about Marijuana as if it’s some evil substance, when in fact it’s the only medicine that makes my life easier as a paraplegic. People like you would rather have me hooked on pain pills or alcohol, which both are much, much more harmful than Marijuana, and the majority of the “substance abuse” you speak of is ALCOHOL related, but that isn’t mentioned in your article because it doesn’t fit in with your hypocritical agenda. It saddens me to think that there is so much ignorance in our law enforcement and state government…..and it goes beyond ignorance to outright dishonesty. Thank God the voters of Michigan had the common sense to vote yes on medical marijuana because we obviously can’t trust you to make the proper decisions for us, and for you to suggest that people like me who are suffering have some hidden agenda (to spread crime or to push illicit drugs) is just disgusting. I wonder how people like you sleep at night.”
Hey Paul, too bad your hero Cooley is losing now. Guess he might not get to go postal on all us Cali blazers. Too bad you might not be getting your wet dream. I wonder why you didn’t post my last comment about what you said about the stoners against Prop 19, in there it says that we are also against large for profit dispensaries as well as corporations bringing there GMO pot to market. But for some reason you decided not to print that one as you will probably not print this one. Seems like your trying to change the facts! I guess since your in charge of this blog you can do whatever you like. Even if you don’t print this I know what your doing. Does Norml have a brand name already? Hows your pot cafe doing in Portland, Or NORMAL?
[Paul Armentano responds: I’m not ‘in charge’ of this blog. I don’t delete posts and I have no clue what post of your you are speaking of. Cooley is certainly not ‘my hero,’ and NORML has been very public in its opposition to him — which is certainly more than can be said for the so-called ‘stoners against Prop. 19.’]
[Russ Belville adds: And just for the record, Oregon NORML, not National NORML, opened the Cannabis Cafe in Portland. As of October, the now “World Famous Cannabis Cafe” has separated from Oregon NORML, as it has become a for-profit entity and Oregon NORML must remain a non-profit. It remains open for business at 322 SE 82nd Ave in Portland, Oregon and is doing quite well, thank you.]