Letter: New law violates Prop. 215
To the community,
The American Medical Marijuana Association has announced that it is filing a lawsuit over the violation of Proposition 215 by the California Legislature and Gov. Jerry Brown. The recent adoption of the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act attempts to modify a voter initiative, Prop. 215, something specifically forbidden by the California Constitution.
Our medical cannabis rights, protected for nearly 20 years by Prop. 215, have been hijacked and Prop. 215 is under attack like never before. The new law is an unacceptable and illegal infringement on our rights under Prop. 215.
Steve Kubby
These are the four areas that were of the greatest concern to patients and their physicians:
1. Patient gardens now limited to 100 square feet.
2. It is now a crime to share a joint from your garden with anyone.
3. Must now use your regular doctor for recommendations, most of whom have no experience with the medical use of cannabis
4. Allows city, county or both to ban cultivation, storage, manufacture, and transport.
I’m getting calls from frightened patients who fear their own state government is planning on going after cannabis doctors as if they are some sort of dangerous threat that must be carefully supervised. Sick people cannot handle this kind of stress. Thousands of patients will die because of this calculated attempt to thwart the will of the people and deprive them of medical cannabis and the doctors who write recommendations to use the healing herb.
David Allen, a retired heart surgeon and expert on cannabinoid medicine, warns against the unintended consequences of the new Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act. According to Allen, the proposed law “will create more crimes of cultivation, processing, storage, transportation, sales, and possession. It will create an army of bureaucrats that will increase the police state and create super drug task force solely for cannabis and no other drug,”
Steve Kubby, American Medical Marijuana Association executive director and South Lake Tahoe resident
Mr. Kubby-
Don’t get me wrong, I am actually for legalization of pot and other drugs under appropriate conditions, but in your article,
you said:
“Thousands of patients will die because of this calculated attempt to thwart the will of the people and deprive them of medical cannabis…”
Can you give us some references for medical studies establishing the use of Marijuana as critical to some peoples lives?
No anecdotes please…to make the statements you do, actual medical studies, peer reviewed and published must exist.
My fear as always and consistent with the current situation is that the whole thing is just a money scam to make a few rich at the real damage to the many.
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, a neurosurgeon, apologized two years ago for publicly opposing marijuana legalization, saying science was clearly on the side of the drug. “I think we have been terribly and systematically misled in this country for some time, and I did part of that misleading,” he told CNN host Piers Morgan. Though studies on marijuana in the United States tended to focus on the drug’s negative effects, Gupta explained, research from across the world had made marijuana’s positive effects clear. He said there was “no scientific basis” to claim marijuana had no medical benefits. “I think it is irresponsible of the medical community not to offer this as an alternative,” Gupta added, citing the high rates of deaths from prescription drugs. “I couldn’t find one documented case of someone dying of a marijuana overdose.” View his video interview here: https://youtu.be/z8C6CK3LEXw
This is an attack on patients rights 100 sq feet can not produce the oil needed for seizures or cancer. Please let us know what we can do to help. My step father died of cancer .. he could not get the oil my aunt lived .. she got the oil.
I think it’s time for these idiot Feds to worry about something that matters. Stop violating patient rights! We’re all sick of it.
Money is the key factor here.
They are getting out ahead of the full legalization of marijuana that is expected to be voted in next year. You can bet the “Big Business” people want all the controls in place and in their favor before that takes place. Billions of dollars at stake.
No lie, billions!