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George Soros Pushes For Pot Legalization
It seems two states is not enough for billionaire investor George Soros (who is ranked the 9th most influential marijuane user in the US). As The Washington Times' Kelly Riddell reports, advocacy groups are leading the campaign to crush marijuana prohibition from coast-to-coast, and 83-year-old Soros is helping line the pockets of those making that push. "Through a network of nonprofit groups, Mr. Soros has spent at least $80 million on the legalization effort since 1994, when he diverted a portion of his foundation’s funds to organizations exploring alternative drug policies, according to tax filings," Riddell notes, adding that the Soros-affiliated Foundation to Promote an Open Society donates roughly $4 million annually to the Drug Policy Alliance.
On the heels of the approval of two of the United States’ first recreational laws in Colorado and Washington, other locales across the country are considering implementing policy changes that could decriminalize pot, ease penalties for users or eliminate weed laws altogether. Advocacy groups are leading the campaign to crush marijuana prohibition from coast-to-coast, and 83-year-old Soros is helping line the pockets of those making that push.
On Wednesday this week, Kelly Riddell at The Washington Times pulled back the curtain to reveal details about some of the roles that Soros has played in the pro-weed debate, and helped explain how the billionaire’s many foundations are fighting the war against pot prohibition.
“Through a network of nonprofit groups, Mr. Soros has spent at least $80 million on the legalization effort since 1994, when he diverted a portion of his foundation’s funds to organizations exploring alternative drug policies, according to tax filings,” Riddell wrote.
The Soros-affiliated Foundation to Promote an Open Society donates roughly $4 million annually to the Drug Policy Alliance, Riddell added, a nonprofit group that describes itself as the nation's leading organization promoting drug policies that are grounded in science, compassion, health and human rights. Soros is among the group of board members who help steer policy reform efforts undertaken by that organization, which has contributed to the successful attempts in both Colorado and Washington state to legalize recreational marijuana, as well as in Uruguay where last year the South American country became the first in the world to allow for the regulation, distribution and sale of weed to legal adults.
Records obtained by the Times also reveal that Soros cuts other substantial checks annually to the American Civil Liberties Union, “which in turn funds marijuana legalization efforts,” Riddell wrote, as well as the Marijuana Policy Project which funds state ballot measures. In 2013, the MPP ranked Soros as the ninth most influential marijuana user in the US, behind President Barack Obama, television host Oprah Winfrey and a handful of other politicians and celebrities.
Soros has not just donated money but has been publicly outspoken:
Ahead of an attempt in November 2010 to legalize weed in California through the failed Proposition 19, Soros wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in which he called the since-failed initiative “a major step forward.”
“In many respects, of course, Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on Election Day,” Soros wrote then. “The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago.”
And Soros is not done yet...
“In Florida, Mr. Soros has teamed up with multimillionaire and Democratic fundraiser John Morgan to donate more than 80 percent of the money to get medical marijuana legalization on the ballot through its initiative ‘United for Care, People United for Medical Marijuana,’” Riddell wrote, and the MPP is “focusing a lot of time and resources passing bills” in Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, according to her report.
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Do you honestly believe this crap?
Sure excessive use of marijuana might not be the healthiest thing but, from a common-sense, public finances, and civil rights point of view, prohibition OF ANY SUBSTANCE is not just devoid of any logic and unscientific, but outright discriminatory, and highly destructive to society at large and especially the most vulnerable.
Also I'm fairly sure the average fast-food American diet and sendetary lifestyle is just a likely to "cause short-term memory loss if used chronically. It impacts on the immune system if used regularly. It affects your depth perception.” In fact, I'm fairly sure your average fat-ass 'merican has worse short-term memory, immune system function, and general fitness, than a fit athlete who happens to be a hardcore stoner 24/7.
"... it will instead increase in illegal activity by enticing drug traffickers to operate more openly." - I won't even bother replying this insanity because the level of absurdity is through the roof and actively frying my brain cells at a faster rate than any drug just trying to comprehend the thought process of the author.
I disagree with George Soros of the vast majority of issues but he is very much darn right on this one.
In the end though, all drugs should be made legal. Actually, most drugs likely will be made legal within a decade or two, NOT because of sudden realization that 99% of problems associated with drugs come from prohibition, or just how much of a disregard for natural freedoms making a crime for adults to use X or Y subtance on their own body (thereby effectively making the State the actual owner of your physical body). Nope, legislators don't actually give a shit about you, it is NOT about your health, or even public safety, and all about MONEY. When public finances at all levels of Gov starts flashing deep red, the tax proceeds from legalized drugs, and massive savings on law enforcment and the justice system will look increasingly more appealing.
Spare us the drug war propaganda. I've lived where pot was legal (and not taxed). Society did not fall apart, nor did men become women... dogs and cats did not live together in sin. You cite fear-based bullshit written by a man well paid by the police / prison industrial complex.
What do you call it when supposed champions of freedom fall back on the authoritarian arguments of their adversaries when confronted by something which they disapprove? Hypocrisy.
Man, that's not exactly right. As I know from certain experiences, smoking hemp can extend the time-space continuum by up to 500 %. In words: Five hundred. That means, that you can get more than 400 years old, when using hemp regularly. That's more than with any other drug!
potl' make um shut their mouths bitchez
Americans are so stupid - why do you think this regime and Soros wants pot legalized? Hmm? THINK - IT IS STILL LEGAL. Because a stoned population is easily manipulated and controled. Friggen morons that think this is a good idea!
Exactly what i was thinking. This has to be part of the dumbing down of America. I must be living under a rock. I had no idea Soros liked to toke it. Even more surprising, Oprah? Oh Oprah, Oprah. Wow.
Or as Herbert Marcuse of the infamous Frankfurt School of Western Marxist critical theory and founder of the New Left put it: “stoned hippies make lousy soldiers and will not oppose your aggression elsewhere throughout the globe."
Said ol’ Herb: “you can neutralize the best and brightest on the campuses (with the poisoned candy of drugs and sex packaged in an attractive musical coating) so they don’t really think about what you are doing…” i.e., disarm them through a combination of sex and drugs.
According to a critic, Marcuse left behind the notion of tolerance that accepts “anything from the left, but silences the right.”
From Marcus.org:
“On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik killed 76 people in a bombing and a shooting spree in Norway. Hours beforehand, he released a 1500 page manifesto, outlining his thoughts and actions for the world to see. Herbert figures prominently in several places in that manuscript, available as a website ebook, and a 1518-page-pdf (easily searchable). Some excerpts:
Marcuse preached the “Great Refusal,” a rejection of all basic Western concepts, sexual liberation and the merits of feminist and black revolution. His primary thesis was that university students, ghetto blacks, the alienated, the asocial, and the Third World could take the place of the proletariat in the Communist revolution. In his book An Essay on Liberation, Marcuse proclaimed his goals of a radical transvaluation of values; the relaxation of taboos; cultural subversion; Critical Theory; and a linguistic rebellion that would amount to a methodical reversal of meaning. As for racial conflict, Marcuse wrote that white men are guilty and that blacks are the most natural force of rebellion.
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/booksabout/haters/haters.htm
And soooo….why not legalize marijuana?
Teenagers who smoke cannabis damage their brains for LIFE and may be more likely to develop schizophrenia | The Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2377581/Teenagers-smoke-cannabis-damage-brains-LIFE-likely-develop-schizophrenia.html#ixzz2sm7YKJNN
I don't think you need the stoner angle to bolster your "controlled" population thesis. Dumb will do, as it has done for all the time the GOP has whipped their base into a lather with dumb social issues. Most people who have experienced mind expansion, will understand that this is a good thing. I am a grandmother, born outside the USA, over 60 years old, with enough knowledge and experience to tell you that you are full of shit, and don't know what the fuck you are talking about. Make sure you keep that bag over your head, I sure don't want to know what your idiotship looks like in real life.
America has been sliding into the slut culture and what better addition to break down the discipline and the permanence of a culture’s foundation than to sweep it with drugs. And bring on the down arrows to demonstrate that you are in denial that marijuana is a gateway drug to Hell.
And when you’re in Hell, don’t ask the rest of society to pay for the damage.
Marijuana Cookies Claim First Victim In Colorado, Levy Thamba, Since Legalization in January 2014 | Medical Daily
By Dana Dovey | Apr 3, 2014
On Jan. 1, 2014, Colorado legalized the sale of marijuana to individuals over the age of 21. Since then, there has been a steady influx of marijuana-geared tourism in the state. Now, only a mere four months into the year, Colorado has seen possibly the first case of a death attributed to the effects of the drug. A 19-year-old student leaped to his death from the fourth floor of his hotel building after eating marijuana cookies, and the coroner has listed "marijuana intoxication" as a factor in his cause of death…
According to Dr. Scott Bentz in an interview with CBS Denver, edible marijuana can be easily overdosed. “I think with edibles, we are in a bit of a danger zone. Effects of edible marijuana are not as predictable as the inhaled marijuana,” the doctor explained to the news station. Benz claimed to see a number of patients each week who have overdosed from marijuana in its edible form. They suffer from symptoms of marijuana intoxication such as shortness of breath and, anxiety, panic, and hallucinations.
http://www.medicaldaily.com/marijuana-cookies-claim-first-victim-colorado-levy-thamba-legalization-january-2014-274442
and now from the same medical site, complete with pictures of homosexual males kissing for the edification of America’s little kiddies…
HHS Can Now Process Medicare Requests For Couples In Same Sex Marriages | Medical Daily
By Lecia Bushak | Apr 4, 2014
…After this ruling, DOMA could no longer prevent Medicare from recognizing same-sex marriages to determine eligibility for the program. Now anyone can apply for Medicare based on Medicare taxes paid by a same-sex spouse in order to get premium-free Part A. The Medicare.gov website writes, “If you’re in, or are a surviving spouse of, a same-sex marriage, we encourage you to apply for Medicare if you think you might be eligible.”
In a guidance memo last year, HHS noted:
"The Supreme Court victory in United States v. Windsor striking down the discriminatory federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) affirms that all loving and committed couples who are married deserve equal legal respect and treatment from the federal government. The demise of DOMA marks a turning point in how the United States government treats the relationships of married same-sex couples for federal programs that are linked to being married. At the same time, a turning point is part of a longer journey, not the end of the road. There is much work ahead before same-sex couples living across the nation can enjoy all the same protections as their different-sex counterparts."
http://www.medicaldaily.com/hhs-can-now-process-medicare-requests-couples-same-sex-marriages-274712
Same kind of idiot who 100 years ago would have been at the Forefront of the Temperance movement and for the abolition of caffeine and especially alcohol. Turned out really well.
The down arrows have it. We have a down-sinking society. We have rampant violence, unwed teen-age pregnancies, more than 56 million US abortions since 1973, a political U.S. Supreme Court that sits at the core of destroying the American culture, and a celebration of atheism. And sanctioned political intolerance of the former good that built America.
Next time you’re in the hospital, with luck you won’t get a nurse on marijuana or with HIV or... fill in the blank. A report on the "Substance Use Disorder in Nursing: A Resource Manual and Guidelines for Alternative and Disciplianary Monitoring Programs" from the National Council of the State Board of Nursing reports that…
https://www.ncsbn.org/SUDN_10.pdf
no home grown pure organics in georges world.
just big pharma gmo aspartame dosed fluoride watered weed.
if soros is around it expect nothing but money rape and death.
this pig needs to die of old age real soon.
please lord rid us of this parasitic intestinal worm.
Amen.
"If you an get them asking the wrong questions, you don't have to worry about the answers" - Thomas Pynchon.
Totally mistaken context - "Legalize it" ... as if a healing, versatile herb used for eons needs the magick wand of govt to be sanctioned on this earth. That is just how a statist would think, "needs to be legal." Everything through the fingers of govt into the gaps of the bars in the feeding cage, then to our gaping mouths. Oh thank you Mr, Soros.
Here's a thought; a lot of people are afraid of cannabis; and for a logical if mistaken reason.
Cannabis has been cultivated and synthesized much, much stronger now than when I was acquiring a taste for it listening to Jethro Tull and Led Zep. You need to know what you are doing or you can ingest say a 200 mg dose in a piece of taffy (yes that potency is widely available) and blow out your paranoias for eight hours. It's not the Cannabis' fault, it's our unclean minds filled with the detritus of this descending kulture but most don't get that.
Read 'A Bad Trip' by Charles Bukowski - an essay on Buke's LSD trip, written while he was ripping on it. He is very lucid on why it's a bad idea if you are not prepared.
I get high every 1-2 months, that's all I have time for, I need 24 hours by myself and I focus and deal with the fear. But I have been doing that for years, inuring myself for what is coming down the pike in Amerika. I don't want it in vending machines, I like where we are with it now and I very, very rarely say that about anything in this Kingdom.
Cannabis will never gain wide acceptance if they keep it at 160 Proof. We are in the moonshine days with it. I also think these are halycon days because god-damned Big Pharma does not have its fingers in it, yet. But it is too strong and yes our youth are going to lose their edge with this extra-strength shit.
I distrust everything govt touches, everything; I hate it as a natural enemy. Soros has much more brainpower than I do, and I cannot fathom what he is thinking but I instinctively doubt he is a man of general goodwill; him and his cornpone buddy Rogers.
Best just to avoid contemplating the contents of their minds.
Soros can make a billion off it. I'm with him on this one. Jesus this would be good.
He does not always have bad ideas then. But he must have vested interest in marijuana then.
While on the topic of drugs, I saw news the other day that Nigella Lawson, TV celebrity chef, daughter of former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, and former wife of a member of the Saatchi advertising family, is banned from entry into the US because she admitted cocaine use (while going through her divorce trial).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't a certain highly placed elected official in the US admitted cocaine use, too?
It is bad enough that there are people in prison today, or who were previously in prison and have all the "benefits" society affords convicted felons, who merely got caught for doing something this certain highly placed elected official also did, but who just didn't get caught. So guilt comes not from the act itself, but from getting caught (or in the case of Nigella Lawson, admitting it under oath).
Beware of billionaires promising freedom. Just look at what his puppet institution supported in Uruguay:
http://www.occupy.com/article/uruguay-blazes-way-first-country-legalize-...
Here is an interesting blog post touching more broadly on how this plays with the corporate oligarchy:
http://www.occupy.com/article/uruguay-blazes-way-first-country-legalize-...
Just like "campaign finance reform" and many "health regulations" this is about eliminating the smaller players to create a system that is tightly controlled by a select group of massive conglomerates. They give the proles "what they want" and manage to corner the market at the same time. Win-win.
If it came from Soros, Dr evil, he must own massive amounts of pot related stocks or businesses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGhIl-qV9FI
During the beginning of the audio recording
are some perspectives upon what kinds of
politics Soros was funding in the Ukraine.
The fascist plutocracy, run by the banksters, continues to be able to control politics through its funding. The biggest winners in the war against some drugs are the various oligarchs at the top of social pyramids. The biggest banks launder the most illegal drug money, while also every excuse is found to increasingly polarize and police society, due to more black markets, which were deliberately designed to become the vicious perpetual "failures" that they became: DEBT SLAVERY BACKED BY WARS BASED ON DECEITS, WHERE THOSE WITH THE MOST MONEY USE THAT TO CONTROL ALL SIDES IN THOSE CONFLICTS, IN WAYS WHICH GENERATE FEEDBACK LOOPS THAT GET WORSE, FASTER!
With begrudging respect for their evil brilliance,
being able to fund, and therefore covertly control
the "opposition" is a typical aspect of their games.
That has, of course, also happened through various
mainstream "legalize marijuana" movements that
are run by morons, funded by some evil billionaires.
The vicious spirals of the most "evil" of systems,
the monetary system, still being able to control
the politics, that criminalized cannabis, is NOW
dominating the fake "legalizations," which are
based on compromises with the same old lies
while NOT based on any more radical truths!
SOROS FUNDING MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION
ACHIEVES CONTROLLING THE OPPOSITION!
POT POLITICS IS A MICROCOSM OF THE REST OF POLITICS: THE SAME OLD VICIOUS SPIRALS OF THE MONEY IN POLITICS CONTROLLING WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS, IN WAYS WHICH ALWAYS END UP MAKING THOSE PROCESSES OVERALL DRIVE EVEN MORE COLLECTIVE CRIMINAL INSANITIES, BECAUSE THE BASIS OF EVERYTHING IS BACKING UP FRAUDS WITH FORCE, IN WAYS WHICH ENABLE THOSE WHO MOST PROFIT FROM THAT ABLE TO CONTINUE TO DOMINATE THE POLITICAL PROCESSES, SO THOSE VICIOUS SPIRALS ALWAYS INCREASE.
DUE TO THE DEGREE THAT CIVILIZATION IS ALREADY CONTROLLED BY A FUNDAMENTALLY FRAUDULENT FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM, THOSE TOWARDS THE TOP OF THAT SOCIAL PYRAMID SYSTEM CONTINUE TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE OPPOSITION TO THAT SYSTEM, SO THAT THERE IS NO OTHER EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION WHICH IS PRACTICALLY POSSIBLE.
Pot increases estrogen in men hence widespread use will decrease aggressive behavior.
Gofo dat lezbein secs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZqYV9KKOZQ
Hey Soros... Snoochie Boochies!!!
Cap alla da soreazz bankstaz furst.
Den coppa bonglode.
Getten realz peonages.
Leggalize phukking hash for crippin sakies.
It really is the correct medium.
FUCK Soros.
Die you cunt.
Which one does the least harm to the body?
Or has caused the least related deaths?
(A)alcohol
(B)fast food
(C)marijuana
P.s Haz anyone got a light pleeze?
'Marijuana in adolescence can cause permanent brain damage'
New research may give backing to parents telling teens to "just say no." A study in mice from the University of Maryland School of Medicine reveals that regular use of marijuana during adolescence could damage brain function, potentially increasing the risk for schizophrenia and other psychiatric problems.
The study, which was recently published in Neuropsychopharmacology, had scientists examining cortical oscillations - patterns of the brain's neuron activity - in mice. These oscillations become abnormal when schizophrenia or other psychiatric disorders are present.
Researchers exposed young mice to low doses of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the active ingredient present in marijuana, for 20 days. Then the mice were returned to their family to continue developing.
When the mice became adults, the scientists discovered that their cortical oscillations were severely modified, and the mice showed signs of impaired cognitive functions.
Sylvina Mullins Raver from the University of Maryland says: "The striking finding is that, even though the mice were exposed to very low drug doses, and only for a brief period during adolescence, their brain abnormalities persisted into adulthood."
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/263936.php
But, then again, as a comedian someone referenced here said:
"I have taken drugs before and had a real good time…laughed by ass off.."
-- Researchers exposed young mice to low doses of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which is the active ingredient present in marijuana, for 20 days. Then the mice were returned to their family to continue developing. [my emphasis]
So these young mice were kept away from their families for 20 days. Which is the equivalent to 1 1/2 yrs in human development terms.
No final conclusions can be drawn from this research. Further research is required to apply useful conclusions to human development.
Sorry.
FYI w/o comment
FLORIDA CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT PETITION LANGUAGE
BALLOT TITLE: Use of Marijuana for Certain Medical Conditions
BALLOT SUMMARY: Allows the medical use of marijuana for individuals with debilitating diseases as determined by a licensed Florida physician. Allows caregivers to assist patients’ medical use of marijuana. The Department of Health shall register and regulate centers that produce and distribute marijuana for medical purposes and shall issue identification cards to patients and caregivers. Applies only to Florida law. Does not authorize violations of federal law or any non-medical use, possession or production of marijuana.
ARTICLE AND SECTION BEING AMENDED OR CREATED: Article X, Section 29
Full text of proposed constitutional amendment is as follows:
ARTICLE X, SECTION 29. Medical marijuana production, possession and use.
(a) PUBLIC POLICY.
(1) The medical use of marijuana by a qualifying patient or personal caregiver is not subject to criminal or civil liability sanctions under Florida law except as provided in this section.
(2) A physician licensed in Florida shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability or sanctions under Florida law for issuing a physician certification to a person diagnosed with a debilitating medical condition in a manner consistent with this section.
(3) Actions and conduct by a medical marijuana treatment center registered with the Department, or its employees, as permitted by this section and in compliance with Department regulations, shall not be subject to criminal or civil liability or sanctions under Florida law except as provided in this section.
(b) DEFINITIONS. For purposes of this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings:
(1) “Debilitating Medical Condition” means cancer, glaucoma, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Crohn's disease, Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis or other conditions for which a physician believes that the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the potential health risks for a patient.
(2) “Department” means the Department of Health or its successor agency.
(3) “Identification card” means a document issued by the Department that identifies a person who has a physician certification or a personal caregiver who is at least twenty-one (21) years old and has agreed to assist with a qualifying patient’s medical use of marijuana.
(4) “Marijuana” has the meaning given cannabis in Section 893.02(3), Florida Statutes (2013).
(5) “Medical Marijuana Treatment Center” means an entity that acquires, cultivates, possesses, processes (including development of related products such as food, tinctures, aerosols, oils, or ointments), transfers, transports, sells, distributes, dispenses, or administers marijuana, products containing marijuana, related supplies, or educational materials to qualifying patients or their personal caregivers and is registered by the Department.
(6) “Medical use” means the acquisition, possession, use, delivery, transfer, or administration of marijuana or related supplies by a qualifying patient or personal caregiver for use by a qualifying patient for the treatment of a debilitating medical condition.
(7) “Personal caregiver” means a person who is at least twenty-one (21) years old who has agreed to assist with qualifying patient's medical use of marijuana and has a caregiver identification card issued by the Department. A personal caregiver may assist no more than five (5) qualifying patients at one time. An employee of a hospice provider, nursing, or medical facility may serve as a personal caregiver to more than five (5) qualifying patients as permitted by the Department. Personal caregivers are prohibited from consuming marijuana obtained for the personal, medical use by the qualifying patient.
(8) “Physician” means a physician who is licensed in Florida.
(9) “Physician certification” means a written document signed by a physician, stating that in the physician's professional opinion, the patient suffers from a debilitating medical condition, that the potential benefits of the medical use of marijuana would likely outweigh the health risks for the patient, and for how long the physician recommends the medical use of marijuana for the patient. A physician certification may only be provided after the physician has conducted a physical examination of the patient and a full assessment of the patient’s medical history.
(10) “Qualifying patient” means a person who has been diagnosed to have a debilitating medical condition, who has a physician certification and a valid qualifying patient identification card. If the Department does not begin issuing identification cards within nine (9) months after the effective date of this section, then a valid physician certification will serve as a patient identification card in order to allow a person to become a "qualifying patient" until the Department begins issuing identification cards.
(c) LIMITATIONS.
(1) Nothing in this section shall affect laws relating to non-medical use, possession, production or sale of marijuana.
(2) Nothing in this section authorizes the use of medical marijuana by anyone other than a qualifying patient.
(3) Nothing in this section allows the operation of a motor vehicle, boat, or aircraft while under the influence of marijuana.
(4) Nothing in this law section requires the violation of federal law or purports to give immunity under federal law.
(5) Nothing in this section shall require any accommodation of any on-site medical use of marijuana in any place of education or employment, or of smoking medical marijuana in any public place.
(6) Nothing in this section shall require any health insurance provider or any government agency or authority to reimburse any person for expenses related to the medical use of marijuana.
(d) DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT. The Department shall issue reasonable regulations necessary for the implementation and enforcement of this section. The purpose of the regulations is to ensure the availability and safe use of medical marijuana by qualifying patients. It is the duty of the Department to promulgate regulations in a timely fashion.
(1) Implementing Regulations. In order to allow the Department sufficient time after passage of this section, the following regulations shall be promulgated no later than six (6) months after the effective date of this section:
a. Procedures for the issuance of qualifying patient identification cards to people with physician certifications, and standards for the renewal of such identification cards.
b. Procedures for the issuance of personal caregiver identification cards to persons qualified to assist with a qualifying patient’s medical use of marijuana, and standards for the renewal of such identification cards.
c. Procedures for the registration of Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers that include procedures for the issuance, renewal, suspension, and revocation of registration, and standards to ensure security, record keeping, testing, labeling, inspection, and safety.
d. A regulation that defines the amount of marijuana that could reasonably be presumed to be an adequate supply for qualifying patients’ medical use, based on the best available evidence. This presumption as to quantity may be overcome with evidence of a particular qualifying patient’s appropriate medical use.
(2) Issuance of identification cards and registrations. The Department shall begin issuing qualifying patient and personal caregiver identification cards, as well as begin registering Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers no later than nine months (9) after the effective date of this section.
(3) If the Department does not issue regulations, or if the Department does not begin issuing identification cards and registering Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers within the time limits set in this section, any Florida citizen shall have standing to seek judicial relief to compel compliance with the Department’s constitutional duties.
(4) The Department shall protect the confidentiality of all qualifying patients. All records containing the identity of qualifying patients shall be confidential and kept from public disclosure other than for valid medical or law enforcement purposes.
(e) LEGISLATION. Nothing in this section shall limit the legislature from enacting laws consistent with this provision.
(f) SEVERABILITY. The provisions of this section are severable and if any clause, sentence, paragraph or section of this measure, or an application thereof, is adjudged invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction other provisions shall continue to be in effect to the fullest extent possible.
PS: From the United for Care FAQs.
Why is home growing not mentioned in the ballot language?
The amendment does not allow patients to grow their own marijuana at home. While many supporters and patients expressed their desire to see this provision included in the law, United for Care left “home grow” out of the amendment in order to create a tightly regulated and controlled system that is best for the State of Florida.
http://www.unitedforcare.org/
Pound the drums to legalize?
Besides welfare, I can think of few more effective ways to buy the votes of the young and the lazy.
No matter what his motivation, he plans to make money off it.
Yeah and so what? The current drug policy especially regarding marijuana is a complete and unmitigated failure and yeah I would rather have something regulated, taxed, and regulated than what the alternative has been (increasing militarization of the police and more and more money given to police and law enforcement budgets; huge number of addicts and possession offenders locked up in prisons at great annual expense to taxpayers; not treating addiciton as a public health problem is works better, is cheaper, and is more human for the addicts and their families, etc; narco violence in the US and especially in Mexico which has really destabilized large parts of the country)
Lots not even discuss how more than 2x OD annually and show up in ERs in the US on legal drugs than they do from all illegal controlled narotics combined too or the amount of deaths that results in.
God bless Mr. Soros and fuck a bunch of wingers that only finance hate.
How do right wingers finance hate?
Ask the Koch Bros. for starters then the Heritage Foundation, Wingers for a better America, Wingers Know Best LLC, ImmaWinger&You'reWrong.org ...
I don't know this slavers intent but legalizing prohibited substances people want to use is good for free enterprise and freedom in general. Prohibition breeds powerful gangs of criminal types who use naked voilence to enforce and consolidate their position and eventually get into positions to dictate national policy. It also fills jails with non violent victimless "offenders" and creates a corrupt prison and "judicial" industry.
People who wreck themselves with indisriminate excessuse of bad food, alcohol, whores, gambling, etc. will always exist and remain a minority. Its just a part of life. To criminalize the majority of users who use balance and discretion is sheer idiocy unless your true intent is to create inordinately profitable shadow markets.
Whatever Soros is up to, I think it also has an unintended step in the right direction, and provides a feather in the cap for freedom.
To anyone arguing that somehow legalizing pot will generate income, stop right there.
Legalization = income.
And that's where it stops. Now watch:
Legalization = income = tax revenue = more money for local/state/federal agencies = trickles back down to the people.
Sorry, that doesn't work. We've been down this path before. Lottery, anyone?
Truth is, legalization = income = money blown on a thousand pet government projects = massive waste and fraud = need more taxpayer money.
And that is why I don't stand for the legalization = income argument.
Que? You can argue about the number of employees on state lotteries and the margins/bottom line of the actual ticket revenues that go back to citizens after the prize winnings/operational expense are paid out but the alternative is simply organized crime running it.
Same thing here.
Jesus Christ, are all of ZH's sources from Russia now? Fucking trolls.
Soros pro Pot WHY?
Could it be there is feminizing or pacification effects in pot? Or is it a way to introduce a potpourri of formulations designed to exact percentages of predictable outcomes?
Oh that's just paranoid. The 1 percenters couldn't and wouldn't enact long term programs targeting the general populations.
Flouride is a happy example. It is not in your personal water, ice tea, or tooth rinse. It is not a neurotoxin. It is not the primary ingredient in anti-depressants.
So stop thinking that way and have a dubie on me. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep.
Now i know why i've always hated weed !
If you watch movies like... Black Hawk Down or even that Tom Hanks Captn Philips, what is one thing you see in common? No, not guns... well sorta. What you see is Khat.
"Matthews: What's the matter Danny? Something you don't like?
McKnight: No Spectre gunships, daylight instead of night, late afternoon when they're all fucked up on Khat, only part of the city Aidid can mount a serious counter-attack on short notice..."
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan/05/world/la-fg-yemen-khat-20130106
Weed ain't the same as Khat, but on a mass scale there will be similarities drawn.