Reschedule Cannabis

You’d think the world’s most active force against marijuana might actually know a little bit about it, but no, the cops are as clueless as always and continue to publish distorted facts as truth and try to link medical marijuana to the “mexican Drug Cartel.”

Denver Post says Demand for medical marijuana in Colorado has grown so fast in the past few months that it has outstripped the production of legal “grow” operations and is now probably being supplied by international drug cartels, say some local sheriffs and agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Bold faced lie. Here’s why and anyone who smokes medicinal cannabis can vouch for this.

Fact: Medicinal grade marijuana is not grown in large outdoor plots of land like crappy dirt weed the Mexican cartels send to America. It is grown mostly by highly sophisticated indoor hydroponic set ups by legal American growers/caregivers. Having lived in California where people smoke hydro/indoor marijuana as medicine, I can tell you first hand, a medical marijuana patient would take a puff of mexican dirt weed or “swag” and cough endlessly until they got a headache and prefer not to use the stuff as it does not contain the amount of THC in medicinal grade plants.

I have used cannabis for decades and can tell you, when you inhale mexican Cartel Swag weed it immediately makes me choke and gives me a headache, but using a vaporizer with some good Cali Indoor Chronic will set my migraines at ease and the nausea recede. The opposite happens when you smoke illegal Mexican weed. Any medical marijuana patient can vouch for this, no matter what the cops say… they are not patients or cannabis users and honestly have no idea what the hell they are talking about.

These cops are simply trying to lie to the media to make medicinal cannabis look bad. Fact is, they need to allow people to grow MORE THAN 6 PLANTS and they rather link medicine to drug cartels in another country?

“Dispensaries are popping up like mushrooms,” said DEA special agent-in-charge Jeffrey Sweetin. “Now we have thousands of 20- to 25-year-olds carrying cards. And the cartels are getting rich off this law.”

So lemme get this straight, you have thousands of law abiding citizens with medical marijuana cards, following the law, and the problem is????? This is proof the DEA simply doesn’t like the popularity and social acceptance they are witnessing. People have grown used to medical marijuana and welcome it with open arms now. STAND ASIDE and bow to the people’s will.

Last summer, the Colorado Board of Health declined to limit the number of patients that medical marijuana dispensaries could service.

The result, health department spokesman Mark Salley said, was a boom in the number of people who received cards allowing them to purchase medical pot. There are now 13,000 people in possession of such cards.

Colorado, which approved medical marijuana in 2000, is one of 14 states that permit it.

Police simply do not want American citizens to use pot as medicine, but the truth is, WE DON’T CARE WHAT COPS WANT. The people are abiding by state law and purchasing medical marijuana cards and police need to STEP ASIDE and let the people do, as the people wish. The program is obviously popular for a reason and people participating in the state program are not breaking laws, so get out of the way.

Legal grow operations linked to dispensaries are limited to six cannabis plants each.

The bottom line and answer to this is to allow more than six plants, I have been saying this for years as a medical marijuana patient. The demand for medical grade marijuana is so great that we need to allow patients to grow more than six plants and stop with the silly propaganda about Mexican Drug Cartels selling Marijuana Dispensaries crappy outdoor pot.

NO DISPENSARY would buy Mexican Swag Weed grown outdoors without fertilizers and never cured properly or even grown correctly. I know plenty of people who work in and are part of legal medical marijuana dispensaries in California and can state with 100% certainty they will not and do not buy swag weed grown illegally. It is not potent enough, is usually covered in disgusting chemicals/pesticides and is never cured properly or taken care of. In fact, any dispensary known to sell that type of weed would be SHUNNED BY THE MEDICAL MARIJUANA PATIENTS it would try to sell it to. They go to dispensaries for medical grade pot, not your dads swag from 1960’s. The pot sold in dispensaries is way better and you can tell by simply looking at it, as well as inhaling it. but cops wouldn’t know this, they only kick in doors, they haven’t spent the time we have with patients and with growers and with dispensaries.

Curing is a major part of marijuana potency and guess what, Mexican Drug Cartels sell weed that gives you a headache more than a “high” because its never cured properly. These cops should do some research before going to the media with lies.

Cops and politicians will be the main opposition, but the fat is, it is not up to them. Cops enforce laws, they do not make them. When the people vote and stand up and want medical marijuana, cops should stand aside and never try and act as a tyrant to control what the people can do, within state law.

Police simply want federal money to fight pot, and to do so, they need to keep it a “bad drug.” It is time for the people to stand up against the cops and tell them to get out of the way and stop telling lies about medical marijuana.

Any cop who disobeys state law and tries to arrest medical marijuana patients should have badge taken away.

By contrast, most of the street pot comes from big, outdoor grows, such as the three operations — within a 5-mile radius of Chatfield Reservoir — busted by DEA officials last summer. Sweetin said one grow had 14,000 plants that averaged 5 to 6 feet tall.

He said the average illegal indoor grow is 100 to 200 plants averaging 3 feet tall.

Sheriff Bill Masters of San Miguel County, which includes Telluride, said the number of medical-marijuana users in his county has grown so fast that he, too, is concerned about where the dope is coming from.

“The numbers don’t seem to add up to me,” he said. “It seems difficult to supply people with the number of plants allowed. My suspicions are that marijuana might be coming from other growers.”

Competition among dispensaries has become intense, and security concerns are rising.

Last month, several men wearing jackets identifying themselves as federal agents attempted to rob a marijuana dispensary in the 1900 block of South Cherry Street in Denver.

According to police, the dispensary operators drew weapons and a gunfight erupted in the street. No one was reported injured and no arrests were made, police said.

Last weekend, the U.S. Department of Justice issued a directive advising prosecutors not to pursue cases against medical-marijuana users and suppliers who follow state laws.

“Supply (of marijuana) is not directly addressed in (state law), and we think it’s one of the areas that could lead to criminal elements being involved,” said Longmont city attorney Eugene Mei, noting that the city is seeking a 90-day moratorium on new dispensaries.

Notice how instead of addressing the number of plants patients/care givers can grow they simply try and tie medical marijuana to illegal operations? To fix the problem of supply and demand of medical marijuana, legal growers should be allowed to grow at least 10+ plants per patient, but no, the cops don’t think for themselves, they just want bigger guns and vests to fight the War on Drugs. Get a new job copper, the war on marijuana is ending, and you need to find something else to do.

In the wake of the Justice Department advisory, the DEA’s Sweetin said “it’s business as usual” in terms of enforcement. “We’re leaving cancer patients alone,” he said. “But we’re not being told to leave the dispensaries alone.

And as I said in yesterdays entry, Justice Department says one thing - “no more raids on dispensaries”, but the DEA says another. They will continue to raid and kick in doors on legal dispensaries instead of going after meth dealers, and cocaine etc… dispensaries are within state law and the people need access to them, again I say to the cops, GET OUT OF THE WAY LIARS.

Become an activist today and stop letting cops tell lies to stop you from taken your medicine. get involved, never back down, especially in the face of cops.

The cost of medical marijuana is too high for patients. While I encourage medical marijuana dispensaries, I do however note that most people involved in these dispensaries are doing so only for proift and have no real desires to help medical marijuana patients at all.

Patients need to be allowed to grow their own marijuana and not just six plants. California allows a patient twelve (12) plants, and that still isn’t enough! In parts of California that have voted to raise the number of plants allowed, that number was raised to 99 plants! Why? Because it takes more than 6 plants to fulfill most medical marijuana users prescription.

Think of, or compare it to growing tomatoes. most people who grow tomatoes barely get a few tomatoes off the plant. marijuana grows very similar to tomato plants and most people who grow marijuana end up not getting much from the plant. This is often due to inadequate lighting or just the fact that most people are not the best with growing any kind of fruit or vegetable, and marijuana plants are no different.

BOULDER, Colo. — Boulder County Caregivers offers 16 glass jars of marijuana with names like Skinny Pineapple and Early Pearl Maui, priced at $375 to $420 an ounce. There are marijuana capsules and snacks made with cannabis butter, such as rice crispy treats.

Co-owner Jill Leigh urges customers to try a syrupy tincture she calls “the Advil of medical marijuana.” A drop under the tongue gives less of a high but the same pain relief as smoking, she says.

Leigh’s sales are legal — and taxed — under Colorado’s voter-approved medical marijuana law. Her marijuana dispensary and nearly 60 others serve a rapidly growing number of users with little oversight. Critics of the system say it’s prone to abuse and point to a growing number of younger patients. But a recent state effort to impose more controls failed.
More than 9,000 people are registered in Colorado to use medical marijuana with a doctor’s recommendation — up 2,000 in the past month.

The total is expected to rise to 15,000 by year’s end, according to the state health department, which blames the rapid increase on patient confidentiality guarantees and federal plans to stop raiding medical marijuana operations, which the U.S. government considers illegal.

Dispensaries are increasing the amount they charge and the rates of patients are increasing. Meaning, they are making more money than ever!

Meanwhile, the sick and dying, cannot afford to use marijuana that costs $375 an ounce! This is absurd prices based on the value of illegal street weed! We need to stand up for patients and stop standing up for profit!

A patient who uses cooked marijuana in its edible form, needs at least an ounce every couple of days. And at these prices, we are just making people rich and not really addressing patients pain or rights.

We need to stop letting these dispensaries make millions off dying people while basing their prices on illegal street value. Marijuana is cheap to grow, can grow very fast and yield a lot of medicine if grown properly - the prices these people are charging for medical marijuana seems as if they are selling gold!

I am glad to see dispensaries in the public, but I do not like seeing the amount of money they are making off people who can barely afford to live, let alone afford the cost of $400 an ounce, when they need at least 2 ounces a week.

Marijuana should be grown and given away, there should be large tracts of land designated to grow free pot for medical users who cannot grow their own, and stop restricting caregivers to small numbers of plants which keep the cost up! Let caregivers grow more plants and the price shall come down! If a caregiver wants to grow 500 plants to give weed away, we should allow it! Not restrict them to 10 plants which doesn’t fulfill a single patients prescription!

People think only California has medical marijuana and this is simply not true.

I as talking to a relative from Colorado yesterday about medical marijuana and their response to my comments about medical marijuana programs was “well thats only in California.”

They were shocked to find out that their state had a medical marijuana program and it is actually growing exponentially and doing great!

As the hearing of a proposed Colorado medical marijuana ammendment kicked off this morning, Ron Hyman, registrar for the Colorado Department of Vital Statistics gave some insightful information about the state’s medical marijuana program. The rate of growth of the program is turning out to be more than the department can handle.

Currently, there are just over 9,000 registered medical marijuana patients in Colorado. The program has been growing at an average rate of 1,000 new patients per month. However, June showed a drastic increase to 2,000 patients. The registry receives up to 200 pieces of mail per day, and is scrambling to stay on top of all requests for information by phone, mail, and e-mail.

Such clear growth in the program seems to indicate incredible demand. Ron Hyman said about keeping up with the growth of the program, “we do have concerns about the future.” Some speculation about the growth is being related to the growth of other medical marijuana programs around the nation, the reputation of the program, and finally with political climate change on a federal level, according to Ron Hyman.

People must be informed about medical marijuana and its availability to citizens of states that maintain the program. California is far from the only place where medical marijuana is not only showing progress but doing so without increasing crime, addiction stats, or anything negative. Patients should be allowed to grow and buy medical marijuana, and programs like this prove that it can be done professionally and with compassion.

When asked how long the trend will continue to grow, Hyman indicated the tapering off of the program is not predicted to happen anytime soon. Hyman compared Colorado to Oregon in population, and then stated Oregon has over 30,000 registered medical marijuana patients.

With this information why would anyone think it is a good idea to limit the number of patients a caregiver can give provide for? If the demand for medicine continues to grow at the predicted level, who is going to provide this medicine? Imposing such extreme limitations will either create more crime, or create a society of caregivers.

Growing marijuana in the homes of sick people is not safer than having people who know what they are doing grow the medicine. In fact, expecting someone to care for a sick person and learn how to grow the medicine that person requires is a little much to ask from most people. If you cared for your sick parent or grandparent, would you want the responsibility of providing the only medicine that gives them relief? Talk about burdening the caregiver!

This is the number one reason we need dispensaries and collectives so patients who are too sick to grow their own can find it when they need it (marijuana) and not be forced to black market.

Forcing patients to buy marijuana from criminals is not the best way to go about this. Let patients grow and allow more medical marijuaan dispensaries.