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This week, the Minneapolis City Council heard from several people involved. One witness came in the form of a mom, who said she was “very upset because her son had been given free drugs by a police officer when he went out to participate in what he thought would be social action in a public plaza to help improve his community and country,” in the words of Councilman Cam Gordon.
…the police department decided it would work better to “recruit” these useless individuals, feed them marijuana and possibly other drugs, then observe their behavior as part of a police “training” program that teaches state patrol officers what different kinds of intoxication look like. Others were apparently given weed if they would simply rat on fellow protesters….
…this is a real, official, taxpayer-funded thing. The police are “trying to observe the characteristics of certain drugs so when [police] pull people over they know what they’re looking at,” she told the documentary filmmakers. It’s called the Drug Recognition Evaluator program, and it’s run by the Minnesota State Patrol….
Because, kids, the police-state _needs_ more & more ‘bad guys’ or they become irrelevant. & unemployed …. :/
"In a somewhat surprising disclosure, Reichbach revealed on Thursday that he uses illegally-obtained marijuana to counteract the side-effects from his pancreatic cancer treatments. He insists that it’s the only thing that gives him any sort of relief from his pains and troubles, and maintains that keeping the stuff away from people — like him — who clearly need it is just straight up cruel."
— Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach Admits to Smoking Illegal Marijuana for Cancer
Coalition For Cannabis Standards & Ethics News Alert
The above is a photo of a fake yet realistic recommendation that was received at the Medicine Jar in Seattle. The sharp workers at the Medicine Jar quickly noticed the differences between this and a real medical marijuana authorization and made a copy so it could be shared with Washington’s medical community.This kind of thing is decidedly negative for the movement. False credentials can chip away at the respectability that our fledgling industries are building by serving the sick and suffering. These “novelty” authorizations cost half as much as a real medical authorization but they offer no real benefits to the patients receiving them. Signed by an “advocate” rather than a certified medical practitioner, these fake authorizations become a huge liability the moment you hand one over to a law enforcement officer.
Let’s team up to fight against lowlifes who would endanger our safe access.
If you work at a medical cannabis access point, post copies of this blog post near your intake area and instruct your staff to be on the lookout for these forgeries. It is possible to call and “verify” these novelty authorizations but there are key differences in the documents such as the use of the term “advocate” and acronym “ADV” instead of a legitimate medical title.
Any medical marijuana patient can help by calling Cory Hall’s fake verification line at 1-888-763-9969 and letting him know what you think about his exploitation of sick patients! You can also contact Cory Hall’s fake authorization factory at their contact page. Keep those phones ringing, lets make it difficult to make a quick buck off patients suffering from serious conditions!
(via alapoet)
Cannabis Is The Most Important Vegetable On The Planet (by CannabisClips)
First dude looks like Mister Rogers.
…While Republican legislators talk about ensuring that taxpayer dollars aren’t wasted on drug users, they seem decidedly disinterested in imposing drug testing burdens on recipients of taxpayer largesse who are not poor. They are not calling for the drug testing of beneficiaries of corporate tax breaks, for instance, and for the most part they are demonstrably uninterested in subjecting themselves to similar testing…
…The rhetoric surrounding the politics of drug testing the poor suggests that it is aimed at mothers strung out on heroin or meth-ravaged fathers, but the most common drug cited in the failed Florida drug tests was marijuana….
For Paltrow, the push for drug testing the poor “has been part of a concerted effort to undermine the notion of the social contract” that is ideologically-driven and mean-spirited. “Whether it’s poverty or pregnancy, you make every problem one having to do with individual responsibility, and then you create a justification for taking away money from people who need it.”
