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Protecting patients in the workplace
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Tue, January, 17th 2012 by THCFinder
Help protect hard working Americans who have the right to medicate and live a normal life!
Do you use marijuana for medical reasons? Do you want to get a job when you graduate? Tough luck.
Many are unaware that the California Supreme Court has ruled that employers may fire anyone who fails a drug test, even legal medical marijuana patients. Sadly, many find this out only after they’ve lost their jobs. Only a legislative action will change the climate now.
SB129 (Leno) would grant needed employment rights to medical marijuana users and will be voted on as soon as Jan. 19 in Sacramento. Whether or not you use medical marijuana, you should support this bill along with the 65 percent of California voters who agree that medical marijuana users shouldn’t lose their right to work.
California NORML regularly receives calls from frantic workers in danger of job loss. Ironically, many tell us that it’s marijuana that enables them to be productive workers by managing their pain without opiates, or allowing them to sleep, or staving off migraine headaches. But unless they can stomach pharmaceutical medications for their ailments, they’re out of luck when it comes to the job market.
Washington changing up marijuana laws
Category: Medical Marijuana | Posted on Tue, January, 17th 2012 by THCFinder
This could be a step forward for medical marijuana patients and community over the long haul.
THE Legislature is about to get another medical-marijuana bill. It is a necessary bill.
The medical-cannabis regime in Washington — "cannabis" is the official name now — was left in chaos last year by the Obama administration's threat to prosecute state employees who licensed any cannabis business.
The Obama people didn't say they would arrest state employees, and they haven't done it elsewhere. But their threat was enough for Gov. Chris Gregoire to veto much of the bill.
What survived was "collective gardens" — small grows by patients and their providers. But dispensaries — the shops — were in limbo.
Spokane, which on this issue is located somewhere in cultural Idaho, shut its dispensaries down with raids by police. We are told dispensaries remain open in Mukilteo, Shoreline, Seattle, Issaquah, Kent, Tacoma, Gig Harbor, Lacey, Olympia and Castle Rock.
That is not enough. Cannabis has proven medical value, and some of the patients who want it live east of the mountains. They ought to be able to buy it. (We believe all people over 21 ought to be able to buy it, but that is another matter.)
The new bill, by Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, allows nonprofit (but taxable) cannabis dispensaries by local option. For counties of more than 200,000 — Whatcom, Snohomish, Kitsap, King, Pierce, Thurston, Clark, Yakima and Spokane — the bill would allow dispensaries unless a local jurisdiction opted out. In the other 30 counties, jurisdictions would be out unless they opted in.
The bill also sets up a voluntary statewide registry to give patients protection from arrest, which was vetoed in last year's bill. It also says a conviction for driving under the influence requires actual impairment, not only a blood test, because traces of cannabis may stay in the blood for days.
Gregoire's office has seen the draft bill and a representative says that in its present form the governor probably could sign it. That would be a step forward on a long road.
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Romney's conservative values: Medical marijuana should be denied to sick people
Category: Politics | Posted on Mon, January, 16th 2012 by THCFinder
A YouTube video of Gov. Mitt Romney being asked about medical marijuana on October 6, 2007, is circulating on the Internet, revealing Romney dismissing the concerns of an ill man.
In the video, an 80-pound man in a wheel chair asked the governor about medical marijuana, saying that he had a rare form of muscular dystrophy and that the only prescribed medication that did not make him ill was marijuana. He said that he could die without it. Romney suggested that the young man use synthetic marijuana, which the sick man said made him violently sick.
When asked if he would arrest the man and his doctors for prescribing medical marijuana, Romney responded, "I'm not in favor of medical marijuana," and dismissed him.

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Superman gets his powers from...
Category: Fun | Posted on Mon, January, 16th 2012 by THCFinder
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