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Post by elystokie on Dec 29, 2022 14:06:29 GMT
Meanwhile, in Kansas… Hospital staff in Kansas called the police on a man dying of cancer who was using cannabis products to cope with his symptoms, in an incident that has since sparked outrage and renewed calls to rethink the state’s strict cannabis laws. The encounter took place in mid-December, when police in the city of Hays say two officers showed up at the cancer patient’s hospital room to issue him a citation for a drug violation. Police also took away a vaping device and cannabis product that hospital staff had While the police department later dropped the citation, which would have required the cancer patient to appear in court, reports of the incident fueled debate over the continued criminalization of cannabis in Kansas, one of the three US states that has not legalized the product in any context. While he was glad the charge against his father was dropped, Lee Bretz, the patient’s son, said the incident was “humiliating” for his father and left him “pretty upset”. His father, who has terminal, inoperable cancer, was issued a “must appear” citation for drug possession, Bretz said. “He can’t make it to court. He’s bedridden. He can’t move his legs.” “You’d think they would have shown a lot of compassion and not done anything,” his son said of the officers who responded to the incident. A spokesperson for the Hays medical center in Hays, Kansas, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Greg Bretz, the 69-year-old cancer patient, initially told an opinion columnist for the Wichita Eagle that he was “flat on my back” in his hospital bed, and that he had been using a vaping device and eating some THC paste on bread to cope with the symptoms of his disease. A doctor had told him that it was fine “to do whatever he wants if it makes him feel better”, since there were no medical treatments left for him other than hospice care, he said. On 19 December, hospital staff contacted the Hays police department about a patient vaping in a hospital room, which “they were concerned about as a potential fire hazard”, and also possessing THC, “which is illegal in the state of Kansas”, Hays police chief Don Scheibler said. An initial report of the police interaction with the cancer patient as a “Christmastime hospital-room raid” was inaccurate, Scheibler said. “It’s not a raid.” Scheibler said he had reviewed an audio recording of the two officers’ interaction with the patient in the hospital room, which he said lasted “less than eight minutes” and in which officers were “polite, courteous, respectful” to the frustrated patient, while issuing him a citation for a drug violation with a court date of 26 The police officer who issued the drug citation to the cancer patient had second thoughts, the police chief said, and, that same day, after a discussion with a supervisor, emailed the city prosecutor, recommending that he dismiss the charge. “At the end of the day, they showed compassion and empathy, and that’s what they want from law enforcement,” Scheibler said. “They made the decision to write the ticket and made the recommendation to dismiss it on their own. It wasn’t anything that happened in the news.” Because of the Christmas holiday, the city prosecutor had not seen the email about dismissing the charge until after the police interaction with the cancer patient had already become a viral news story, the police chief said. He said he personally let the patient know on 27 December that the police department was not pursuing the citation and that he would not have to appear in court. More than a hundred people have called or emailed the Hays police department, upset about news reports of officers’ interactions with the cancer patient, the chief said. Local news outlets reported that the hospital had also received threats in the wake of the reported incident. “As a police officer, we don’t determine what the law is,” Scheibler said. “I think the discussion about medical marijuana needs to happen.” Lee Bretz, the patient’s son, said he hoped Kansas would legalize medical marijuana soon. “Nobody wants to see their loved ones hurting, and you’d do anything to see them not hurt,” he said. Hopefully this is more of a case of the officers of the law wanting something to change rather than them being in complete ignorance of cannabis as a medicine. As tragic as it is at least the authorities are being forced to have the conversation, the emperor might even acquire some undergarments..
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Post by elystokie on Jan 3, 2023 15:51:12 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Jan 5, 2023 15:45:28 GMT
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Post by marylandstoke on Jan 6, 2023 12:22:59 GMT
To protect and serve
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Post by marylandstoke on Jan 6, 2023 12:33:05 GMT
One of the, erm herm, ‘work rounds’ in DC was a delivery service where you bought, say, a T shirt for $120. Seems expensive until you find it comes with a free ounce of of the devils lettuce.
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Post by elystokie on Jan 6, 2023 14:05:24 GMT
To protect and serve My mate that lives in Thailand got stuck in the UK for over a year due to covid and his dad passing away then he returned for another 6 months or so, during that time we'd go for a long walk at least once a week. When we first started walking he was vehemently against all drugs (which was somewhat ironic considering he managed pubs for 15 years after he left the RN lol) but I managed to convince him, on cannabis at least, that he'd been lied to pretty much his whole life about it When we sat in the local village cafe/pub thing one night and the villagers started to show how much they knew about the plant (and walked us over to see a huge plant in a neighbours garden) and how much growing they'd done he sat there in amazement
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Post by elystokie on Jan 25, 2023 16:44:45 GMT
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Post by marylandstoke on Feb 6, 2023 11:51:20 GMT
A federal judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a federal law prohibiting people who use marijuana from owning firearms is unconstitutional, the latest challenge to firearms regulations after the conservative-dominated US supreme court set new standards for reviewing gun laws.
People hold signs against gun violence at a March for Our Lives protest in Washington DC in June 2022. People with domestic violence orders can own guns, US appeals court says Read more Lawyers for Jared Michael Harrison argued that their client’s second amendment right to bear arms was violated by a federal law that makes it illegal for “unlawful users or addicts of controlled substances” to possess firearms.
Harrison was charged after being arrested by police in Lawton, Oklahoma, in May 2022 following a traffic stop. During a search of his car, police found a loaded revolver and marijuana. Harrison told police he had been on his way to work at a medical marijuana dispensary but did not have a state-issued medical-marijuana card.
His lawyers argued the portion of federal firearms law focused on drug users or addicts was not consistent with the historical tradition of firearm regulation, echoing what the US supreme court ruled last year in a case known as New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen that set new standards for interpreting the second amendment.
Federal prosecutors argued that the portion of the law focused on drug users is “consistent with a longstanding historical tradition in America of disarming presumptively risky persons, namely, felons, the mentally ill, and the intoxicated”.
A US district judge, Patrick Wyrick, agreed with Harrison’s lawyers, ruling on Friday that prosecutors’ arguments that Harrison’s status as a marijuana user “justifies stripping him of his fundamental right to possess a firearm … is not a constitutionally permissible means of disarming Harrison”.
“But the mere use of marijuana carries none of the characteristics that the nation’s history and tradition of firearms regulation supports,” said Wyrick, who was appointed by Donald Trump.
Wyrick highlighted that under Oklahoma law, marijuana can be bought legally at more than 2,000 store fronts in the state.
Attorneys for Harrison, as well as the US attorney for the western district of Oklahoma, prosecuting the case, did not immediately comment.
The ruling came after a three-judge panel of the fifth US circuit court of appeals in New Orleans on Thursday ruled that the government cannot stop people who have domestic violence restraining orders from owning guns. The panel referenced the Bruen decision. Two of the three judges on that panel are Trump appointees.
The justice department has said it will seek further review of the appeals court’s decision.
In September, a federal judge in Midland, Texas, ruled that a firearms law that bans those under felony indictment from buying guns was unconstitutional. In that case, the US district judge David Counts, also a Trump appointee, also echoed supreme court language in the Bruen case, saying there was “little evidence” the ban related to being under indictment “aligns with this nation’s historical tradition”.
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Post by elystokie on Feb 6, 2023 15:53:40 GMT
Is there any law against being drunk in charge of a loaded firearm or is that ok?
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Post by elystokie on Feb 21, 2023 9:23:13 GMT
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Post by slash on Mar 3, 2023 1:22:42 GMT
i've been in California for about two weeks today and i must say that dear old Boris was right, legal marijuana has destroyed my life. I had a toke a few days ago, ate a pack of crisps and fell asleep by eight o'clock. eight!
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Post by elystokie on Mar 3, 2023 9:34:40 GMT
i've been in California for about two weeks today and i must say that dear old Boris was right, legal marijuana has destroyed my life. I had a toke a few days ago, ate a pack of crisps and fell asleep by eight o'clock. eight! Didn't even know Boris had made a statement about it Looks like he was wrong. Yet again. I saw Theresa May when she stood up as Prime Minister and said cannabis had 'no medicinal value' This was around the same time her husband and the Drug Minister's (fucking lol) husband were growing and exporting tons of the stuff on a 'research' licence. Quite incredibly they were the only ones allowed such a license, I'd love to know how much they made from their shares when the company got sold for billions. You literally couldn't make it up.
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Post by elystokie on Mar 6, 2023 8:14:07 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Mar 8, 2023 8:03:09 GMT
Seems Reefer Madness is alive and well in Oklahoma Voted against legalising, they already have a comparatively huge (around 10%) medical cannabis card carrying community, could have had an effect, some claims of vote rigging being carried out by the GOP governor, would be somewhat ironic
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Post by elystokie on Mar 21, 2023 8:23:23 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Mar 21, 2023 11:12:49 GMT
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Post by marylandstoke on Mar 21, 2023 12:08:00 GMT
Have to see my assessing Doctor today.
He’s an interesting character. Retired and works one afternoon a week up here. Actually really does evaluate his patients unlike some. Have been in there when he has turned someone down.
Seven spinal ops in ten years…not too worried about getting turned down! 💨
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Post by elystokie on Mar 21, 2023 12:40:51 GMT
Have to see my assessing Doctor today. He’s an interesting character. Retired and works one afternoon a week up here. Actually really does evaluate his patients unlike some. Have been in there when he has turned someone down. Seven spinal ops in ten years…not too worried about getting turned down! 💨 What do they charge for that? I pay £50 for a half hour zoom consultation, once I'm through the initial period it'll be once every 3 months that I need an appointment with them.
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Post by marylandstoke on Mar 21, 2023 12:52:35 GMT
Have to see my assessing Doctor today. He’s an interesting character. Retired and works one afternoon a week up here. Actually really does evaluate his patients unlike some. Have been in there when he has turned someone down. Seven spinal ops in ten years…not too worried about getting turned down! 💨 What do they charge for that? I pay £50 for a half hour zoom consultation, once I'm through the initial period it'll be once every 3 months that I need an appointment with them. The Doc appts are anywhere from $50 to $200 depending on the quack. Maryland has just made the card cheaper and renewal longer. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (the “Commission”) is providing this notice to update all patients and licensed medical cannabis businesses on changes to the patient registration fee and registration period. The Commission adopted a proposed regulatory amendment to (1) reduce the patient registration fee from $50 to $25, (2) reduce the replacement card fee from $100 to $50, and (3) extend the registration period from 3 to 6 years. The Commission also voted to implement the proposed changes in Maryland OneStop on or before October 1, 2022. As part of this effort, all valid patient registrations will be extended from 3 to 6 years without patients having to take any additional steps. The Commission is pleased to announce that as of September 29, 2022, the adult patient registration application has been updated with the reduced application fee of $25 and an extended registration period of 6 years. Any new patient application initiated prior to September 29, but not yet submitted, should also reflect the reduced price and extended registration period. In addition, all patients with valid, active registrations will have their registration period extended from 3 to 6 years. The Commission anticipates all existing patient records will be updated with the extended 6-year registration period by October 5, 2022.
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Post by elystokie on Mar 21, 2023 13:10:57 GMT
What do they charge for that? I pay £50 for a half hour zoom consultation, once I'm through the initial period it'll be once every 3 months that I need an appointment with them. The Doc appts are anywhere from $50 to $200 depending on the quack. Maryland has just made the card cheaper and renewal longer. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (the “Commission”) is providing this notice to update all patients and licensed medical cannabis businesses on changes to the patient registration fee and registration period. The Commission adopted a proposed regulatory amendment to (1) reduce the patient registration fee from $50 to $25, (2) reduce the replacement card fee from $100 to $50, and (3) extend the registration period from 3 to 6 years. The Commission also voted to implement the proposed changes in Maryland OneStop on or before October 1, 2022. As part of this effort, all valid patient registrations will be extended from 3 to 6 years without patients having to take any additional steps. The Commission is pleased to announce that as of September 29, 2022, the adult patient registration application has been updated with the reduced application fee of $25 and an extended registration period of 6 years. Any new patient application initiated prior to September 29, but not yet submitted, should also reflect the reduced price and extended registration period. In addition, all patients with valid, active registrations will have their registration period extended from 3 to 6 years. The Commission anticipates all existing patient records will be updated with the extended 6-year registration period by October 5, 2022. Interesting, cheers. What's the situation with driving? It was one of my concerns before becoming a patient. As it happens I needn't have worried, Medicinal Cannabis patients in the UK have a 'medical defence', so the swipe and blood/urine tests used would be irrelevant.
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Post by marylandstoke on Mar 21, 2023 21:10:49 GMT
The Doc appts are anywhere from $50 to $200 depending on the quack. Maryland has just made the card cheaper and renewal longer. The Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission (the “Commission”) is providing this notice to update all patients and licensed medical cannabis businesses on changes to the patient registration fee and registration period. The Commission adopted a proposed regulatory amendment to (1) reduce the patient registration fee from $50 to $25, (2) reduce the replacement card fee from $100 to $50, and (3) extend the registration period from 3 to 6 years. The Commission also voted to implement the proposed changes in Maryland OneStop on or before October 1, 2022. As part of this effort, all valid patient registrations will be extended from 3 to 6 years without patients having to take any additional steps. The Commission is pleased to announce that as of September 29, 2022, the adult patient registration application has been updated with the reduced application fee of $25 and an extended registration period of 6 years. Any new patient application initiated prior to September 29, but not yet submitted, should also reflect the reduced price and extended registration period. In addition, all patients with valid, active registrations will have their registration period extended from 3 to 6 years. The Commission anticipates all existing patient records will be updated with the extended 6-year registration period by October 5, 2022. Interesting, cheers. What's the situation with driving? It was one of my concerns before becoming a patient. As it happens I needn't have worried, Medicinal Cannabis patients in the UK have a 'medical defence', so the swipe and blood/urine tests used would be irrelevant. So that was that then. $150 lighter but in for another year. The police are ‘retraining’ to learn to see impairment in drivers. Only last week one local force asked volunteers to come in and get high so they could observe their actions and reactions.
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Post by elystokie on Mar 21, 2023 21:47:20 GMT
Interesting, cheers. What's the situation with driving? It was one of my concerns before becoming a patient. As it happens I needn't have worried, Medicinal Cannabis patients in the UK have a 'medical defence', so the swipe and blood/urine tests used would be irrelevant. So that was that then. $150 lighter but in for another year. The police are ‘retraining’ to learn to see impairment in drivers. Only last week one local force asked volunteers to come in and get high so they could observe their actions and reactions. I think impairment testing is the only rational way to go about it, the limit for THC levels in the UK is extremely low and in no way does it guarantee or even indicate someone is impaired. They're going to have to do that sort of training in the UK at some point, apparently qualified officers are pretty rare right now.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 5, 2023 7:10:17 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Apr 6, 2023 15:48:28 GMT
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Post by PotteringThrough on Apr 6, 2023 18:24:24 GMT
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Post by elystokie on Apr 7, 2023 4:54:43 GMT
The stuff I get comes from a company called Curaleaf, think they're based in the North East,no idea what each one needs by way of licences etc The NHS should be developing their own grow operations in my opinion, it'd save us all a fortune, never happen whilst the big pharmaceutical companies have the influence they seem to tho. I would love to find out how many MP's (from both sides) made money from the sale of GW Pharma to Jazz Pharmaceuticals for billions.
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Post by marylandstoke on Apr 11, 2023 15:33:54 GMT
Interesting thing I just found out. As the start of legal in Md gets nearer there is a requirement that dispensaries maintain a medical stock for us patients.
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Post by elystokie on Apr 12, 2023 7:42:38 GMT
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Post by marylandstoke on Apr 15, 2023 10:28:55 GMT
BALTIMORE — Recreational cannabis in Maryland is right around the corner - set to become legal this July 1st.
There’s a new structure regulating the new industry - passed by both chambers as time waned on the legislative session in Annapolis.
For one Baltimore shop, planning for legal, non-medical cannabis is nothing new. This summer, they'll be open around the clock to navigate the new market.
"It has been full of peaks and valleys, just like life," said Connor Whelton, CEO of ReLeaf, a medical dispensary in Mount Vernon, and the smoke shop right beside it.
For the last two years, Whelton's shop has bulked up to handle recreational, and the influx of demand sparked by it.
"It’s been really a gamble, if you will. We weren't assured anything," said Whelton. "We had to put up a lot of money to convert this place to be able to take what we think is coming next. This next wave of market capture."
It’s a young and fluid industry - Whelton says - just like the tech boom in the 90s.
They’re a medical retailer right now, but ReLeaf can sell recreational marijuana this July.
"There will be hefty fees to be paid to convert," Whelton added. "There’s special regulations we have to follow, marketing guidelines have changed, we’ll have to hire the appropriate amount of people to handle, what we estimate will be, this next wave."
Last year, Maryland voters passed a ballot referendum to legalize recreational marijuana.
This year, as the legislative session closed, state lawmakers passed the framework for legal marijuana.
"I believe the archetype we’ve laid out is exactly what we’re looking for," said C.T. Wilson (D), a state delegate from Charles County. "We’ve given equity, we’ve given opportunity. We’ve made it to where, like I said, I think people will stop going to these street level drug deals to get what they need."
As that structure heads to the governor's desk, Whelton's shop will create its own new structure to prepare.
"We will still have a direct lane for patients," Whelton continued. "We don’t want to disrupt the patient experience, because they’re the foundation of how we got here. Some stores might have dedicated hours for patients, others might have a dedicated lane."
But after all the anticipation, for the shop, the middle of the summer can’t come soon enough.
"This is great," said Whelton. This is what we’ve been working so hard for. It’s actually an emotional experience."
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Post by elystokie on Apr 17, 2023 8:05:40 GMT
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