This will be my last point then
"Although extrinsic materials (such as legislative committee memos or voter pamphlet arguments) may not be resorted to when the legislative language is clear, courts may never ignore the purpose of the legislation. Every interpretation a court gives a statute must be consistent with the purpose of the legislation. This is why statutes have long "preambles" which explicitly state the purposes of the legislation.
This rule is so controlling that a court is required to ignore the literal language of a legislative statute if it conflicts with the purpose of the legislation. By example I call attention to the appellate court case of Bell v. DMV. In this precedent setting case, the court ruled that a statute must be interpreted to apply to civil proceedings even though the statute they were interpreting stated it applied only to "criminal" proceedings. The court’s interpretation of the statute was consistent with the purposes of the legislation and the limitation to criminal cases in the statute itself was not."
This means that medicinal patients will only need to worry about prop215. The rules of one legislation can only be interpreted....Without comparison to another. The legislation for medicinal patients is only used for medicinal patients. If the DA takes you to court as a medicinal user because they feel like you have violated prop 215 thats one thing but they cannot take a medicinal patient to court who has not violated 215 only 19.
No, it doesnt mean MMJ only need to worry about 215... its merely saying his letter and any other propaganda will not be considered by the court when interpreting 19, that the courts are to held to the actual bill itself, which grants NO EXEMPTIONS FOR MMJ PATIENT-GROWERS ANYWHERE AND PUTS RESTRICTIONS ON ALL CANNABIS CULTIVATION NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW. Furthermore, 19 makes no exemptions in regards to MMJ except for possession, consumption, and sales...not cultivation or taxation thereof. If 19 was to leave the CUA and MMP alone it would have been listed CLEARLY in section 2C (ii)...and do you want to know why....BECAUSE THEY ARE STATE LAWS and if they were meant to be exempt then they would appear like the other state laws in that section.
The rules of the legislation in question grant no exemptions to MMJ patient growers. 19 is being used to supercede numerous state laws, so saying that one wont be affected for no other reason than totally and complete hearsay is absurd. 19 grants CA lawmakers a fucking gem of a sweetheart deal by restricting all cannabis cultivation NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER LAW. Section 11300 (a)(ii) is the end of any garden larger than a 5x5, even if it is legal now, 19 makes it ILLEGAL. And it says so...