Now is the time

[Your Grandfather]

I have nothing interesting to add to this article but to say, I 100% agree and concur that NOW is the time to begin the mother of all battles for the control of what is left of America.

Haven't enough of our friends been jailed, is it not time to pull open the drapes and let us live in freedom and peace.

"That all men are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that among them are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/10623...t_to_work!/ (http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/106237/pot_policy_at_the_federal_level%3A_time_to_get_to_ work!/)

[tom crudes]

Nice thanks for the link

[kochab]

now IS the time to be acting...who knows what can be achieved. We have new grounds and soils that havent been moved on yet with several subjects. MM is just one of them

[Your Grandfather]

California's State Supreme Court has voted unanimously to limit the ability of patients to obtain medical marijuana by narrowly defining who is a legitimate caregiver under California's Compassionate Use Act. As a result of the Court's November 24 opinion in People v. Mentch, many ill and dying patients who are unable to grow their own medicine will no longer be able to rely on individuals who assist patients with cultivation and administration of medical marijuana. Under the new ruling, these individuals are now more vulnerable to arrest and prosecution under California law. This places the burden on California's cooperatives and collectives to supply most of the medical marijuana needed in California by patients who are unable to cultivate their own.

The Court held that, in order to be protected under the Act, a primary caregiver must consistently provide care, independent of any assistance in taking medical marijuana at or before the time he or she assumed responsibility for assisting with medical marijuana. To illustrate some examples of appropriate caregivers under the Act, the Court states: "The spouse or domestic partner caring for his or her ailing companion, the child caring for his or her ailing parent, the hospice nurse caring for his or her ailing patient -- each can point to the many ways in which they, medical marijuana aside, attend to and assume responsibility for the core survival needs of their dependants."

On the other hand, the Court said, a "defendant whose caregiving consisted principally of supplying marijuana and instructing on its use, and who otherwise only sporadically took some patients to medical appointments, cannot qualify as a primary caregiver under [California's Compassionate Use] Act."

If you live in the Golden Bear state, maybe it is time to contact your local representative and bitch them out a bit. It is either us or them, there is no middle ground here.

[kochab]

wow thats crazy....so you pretty much have to have a strong bond with the person before them needing a caretaker in order to become their caretaker?
thats kinda assanine(wonder why spell checker says this is spelled wrong...?)

[sgtpeppr]

I think they are just trying to say a care giver is someone who cares for the person more than just being their dealer. Either way it is silly. If someone, for any reason, wants to smoke cannabis, they should be able to.

[tom crudes]

Gee who's really taking advantage of sick people.....pisses me off. People need to wake up, someday it may be them or it might even be a loved one, I know that feeling as I'm sure many of you do.

[tom crudes]

Here's a place to get started if you live in N.C., Iowa, Tenn., PA, or Delaware
http://www.skunkskool.com/index.php?showtopic=2662