Well Here Goes Again
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Danielsgb
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That we crack down on those dangerous toddlers? Oh, you mean my 'tard'.
Danielsgb
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So first up this, then an update on the Garden.
My Gov. did the right thing today.
Gov. Schweitzer vetoes repeal of Montana's medical marijuana law
Gov. Schweitzer vetoes repeal of Montana's medical marijuana law Associated Press The Billings Gazette | Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:09 pm
HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have repealed Montana's voter-approved medical marijuana law, saying it would have gone against the will of the people.
That left House and Senate conferees one last gasp at coming up with a compromise proposal to tighten regulation of the booming industry with eight working days left in the session.
Of the 15 states and the District of Columbia that have medical marijuana laws, almost all have struggled with how to adequately regulate a drug that the federal government deems dangerous and addictive but said it would not prosecute as long as users follow state law.
But the Montana Legislature took the unusual step last week of passing a bill sponsored by House Speaker Mike Milburn, R-Cascade, to completely overturn the 2004 ballot initiative that was approved by Montana voters.
Milburn and other Republican legislative leaders say the drug cannot be regulated safely because the drug attracts criminal gangs and addicts the state's youth.
Schweitzer announced his veto of the repeal bill on the Capitol steps along with 16 others he called "frivolous, unconstitutional or in direct contradiction to the expressed will of the people of Montana."
Schweitzer said he agreed the medical marijuana law was written broadly with unanticipated results, but that had to be balanced with the medical needs of Montanans.
"I believe the proper resolution of this unanticipated outcome is not outright repeal, but amendment to serve the original intent," he said.
Many Democrats and a few Republicans have said the marijuana industry needs to be regulated, not done away with, and that there is a legitimate need for people to have access to the drug.
Leaders from both parties say something needs to be done to rein in the state's sprawling medical marijuana industry that now has over 28,000 legal marijuana users.
A measure to overhaul the medical marijuana industry by ratcheting up restrictions on the drug was sent to a committee of senators and republicans Wednesday to determine the final version of the bill.
It may be this Legislature's last chance of acting on the issue with the end of the session drawing near.
Senate Bill 423, carried by Senate Majority Leader Jeff Essmann, R-Billings, had a tumultuous passage through the Legislature. The last minute regulation bill was amended and rewritten several times and in the end, the Senate and House passed two entirely different versions of the proposal.
Essmann said the governor's veto of repeal would increase the pressure for lawmakers to compromise and pass an overhaul.
"We need to come to a resolution on this issue." he said.
The committee of lawmakers from both chambers will meet over the next few days to try and hash out the differences between the measures.
My Gov. did the right thing today.
Gov. Schweitzer vetoes repeal of Montana's medical marijuana law
Gov. Schweitzer vetoes repeal of Montana's medical marijuana law Associated Press The Billings Gazette | Posted: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 12:09 pm
HELENA - Gov. Brian Schweitzer vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have repealed Montana's voter-approved medical marijuana law, saying it would have gone against the will of the people.
That left House and Senate conferees one last gasp at coming up with a compromise proposal to tighten regulation of the booming industry with eight working days left in the session.
Of the 15 states and the District of Columbia that have medical marijuana laws, almost all have struggled with how to adequately regulate a drug that the federal government deems dangerous and addictive but said it would not prosecute as long as users follow state law.
But the Montana Legislature took the unusual step last week of passing a bill sponsored by House Speaker Mike Milburn, R-Cascade, to completely overturn the 2004 ballot initiative that was approved by Montana voters.
Milburn and other Republican legislative leaders say the drug cannot be regulated safely because the drug attracts criminal gangs and addicts the state's youth.
Schweitzer announced his veto of the repeal bill on the Capitol steps along with 16 others he called "frivolous, unconstitutional or in direct contradiction to the expressed will of the people of Montana."
Schweitzer said he agreed the medical marijuana law was written broadly with unanticipated results, but that had to be balanced with the medical needs of Montanans.
"I believe the proper resolution of this unanticipated outcome is not outright repeal, but amendment to serve the original intent," he said.
Many Democrats and a few Republicans have said the marijuana industry needs to be regulated, not done away with, and that there is a legitimate need for people to have access to the drug.
Leaders from both parties say something needs to be done to rein in the state's sprawling medical marijuana industry that now has over 28,000 legal marijuana users.
A measure to overhaul the medical marijuana industry by ratcheting up restrictions on the drug was sent to a committee of senators and republicans Wednesday to determine the final version of the bill.
It may be this Legislature's last chance of acting on the issue with the end of the session drawing near.
Senate Bill 423, carried by Senate Majority Leader Jeff Essmann, R-Billings, had a tumultuous passage through the Legislature. The last minute regulation bill was amended and rewritten several times and in the end, the Senate and House passed two entirely different versions of the proposal.
Essmann said the governor's veto of repeal would increase the pressure for lawmakers to compromise and pass an overhaul.
"We need to come to a resolution on this issue." he said.
The committee of lawmakers from both chambers will meet over the next few days to try and hash out the differences between the measures.
Danielsgb
Well-Known Member
I started drowning the last of the original four Super Skunks #1. It got too much light on a stretch early, then some nutes out of whack. Oh well.
It was ready and I need the real estate.
It should be drinking a bit more over the next few days as it starts the cure. Before and after pics.
Daniels
It was ready and I need the real estate.It should be drinking a bit more over the next few days as it starts the cure. Before and after pics.
Daniels
gumball
Well-Known Member
I've been trying to keep up with the repeal and I seen that he vetoed it last night, that is awesome. He seemed to be reasonable about it. You cant just stop an initiative because it is poorly regulated. We all know how many government initiatives would need to be thrown out if that was the case.
The garden looks great, almost time to kill the tard!!!
The garden looks great, almost time to kill the tard!!!
Danielsgb
Well-Known Member
You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back. - Beverly Rubik
Power is not alluring to pure minds. Thomas Jefferson
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isnt thinking. - Gen. George Patton
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
Which government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.- Benjamin Franklin
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. - Robert Frost
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber - Plato
Liberal a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Cornelius Tacitus
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. - Andre Marrou
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. - Robert Heinlein
The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. - Robert Anthony
Some great quotes I saw.
Power is not alluring to pure minds. Thomas Jefferson
If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isnt thinking. - Gen. George Patton
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw
Which government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. Goethe
It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.- Benjamin Franklin
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. - Robert Frost
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Georg Wilhelm Hegel
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber - Plato
Liberal a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws. - Cornelius Tacitus
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. - Andre Marrou
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. - Robert Heinlein
The Christian Right is neither. ~Author Unknown
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity. - Robert Anthony
Some great quotes I saw.
Danielsgb
Well-Known Member
I had to add this from a site I love. I am truly sad and embarrassed from this. Just know most of us are sane.
http://montanafesto.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/highlights-from-lowlifes-montanas-62nd-legislature/#comments
Highlights From Lowlifes: Montanas 62nd Legislature
This legislative session it seems Montana is ALWAYS in the news. Weve made The Colbert Report, Anderson Cooper 360″, Huffington Post, New York Times, CNN, and according to Speaker Milburn, he was interviewed by the Swedish World Federation Against Drugs on a radio show. We have yet to confirm this interviews existence with anyone other than Speaker Milburn, but he assures us that it exists, and naturally, we believe him. After all, he is the one who informed us that Montana is now known as a source country, just like Columbia because of our massive marijuana exports. Although the session isnt quite over, as leadership needed a vacation, here are a few highlights from Montanas 62nd Legislative session.
Special thanks to Hiedi Handford of Montana Connect Magazine for editing and uploading the 300+ testimony videos. Other legislative testimony can be viewed on her YouTube channel here.
http://montanafesto.wordpress.com/2011/04/15/highlights-from-lowlifes-montanas-62nd-legislature/#comments
Highlights From Lowlifes: Montanas 62nd Legislature
This legislative session it seems Montana is ALWAYS in the news. Weve made The Colbert Report, Anderson Cooper 360″, Huffington Post, New York Times, CNN, and according to Speaker Milburn, he was interviewed by the Swedish World Federation Against Drugs on a radio show. We have yet to confirm this interviews existence with anyone other than Speaker Milburn, but he assures us that it exists, and naturally, we believe him. After all, he is the one who informed us that Montana is now known as a source country, just like Columbia because of our massive marijuana exports. Although the session isnt quite over, as leadership needed a vacation, here are a few highlights from Montanas 62nd Legislative session.- ‎Im going to ask that we take a minute here and reflect upon our own hypocrisy. Rep. Rob Cook R-Conrad. INDEED.
- If Jesus Christ himself were here today he would be an opponent of this bill, Harris Himes speaking against a bill to abolish the death penalty. Yes, Rev. Himes, if you were in the chair, he may indeed approve.
- Its poison, a kind of poison, its kind of like taking arsenic with Valium in it it will make you feel good until it kills you. Thats the truth. Rep. David Howard (R-Park City) speaking about medical marijuana. And we all know marijuana kills . how many people annually? Thats right Rep. Howard, ZERO.
- It is God himself who said homosexuality is an abomination and he has various punishments for it .. they will surely be put to death. Rev. Harris Hines in testimony supporting discrimination of gays. Again, that death thing.
- The most important reason to repealing medical marijuana is that marijuana and its usage is offensive to God Rev. Harris Himes. Himes may want to check out Genesis 1:29
- He (Dr. Carlton Turner) told us hed take almost any of the other drugs- crank, heroin, methamphetamines under clinical conditions- but he wouldnt take marijuana. Every time theyd done a human test on it, it scared him half to death. Rep David Howard admits FEAR motivates him to lie?
- Ill never have my brother back, we need to save others peoples brothers. Rep James Knox, fighting tears as he pimped his brother for marijuana repeal while inadvertently advocating nanny state government.
- My birth mom told me had abortion been legal, I wouldnt have been calling her. Rep James Knox testifying on house floor on an abortion bill, making a great case for post natal abortion.
- Open Cow, Open Woman, Rep Regier compares women to cows. This one defies all explanation.
- Theres new ways to kill you know, in prisons, they take little pieces of paper. They take their blood, their saliva and do blow darts on the guards, there are new and unique ways to kill. Rep Janna Taylor. Im not sure what Taylor is getting at here.
- I also voted no on this bill, the body should know that the people who run ponzi schemes, they dont have any money of their own . I couldnt imagine standing in front of my constituents in Park City, where none of them make more than $35,000/yr to say were gonna come up with a scheme to get back up to 25,000 of what people have lost investing . Rep. Dave Howard who thinks his constituency is poor.
- Two wrongs dont make a right- Sen. Verdell Jackson referring to victims of rape and incest. While Im not a fan of abortion, I wonder if Sen. Jackson would feel differently if he had been raped.
- ‎The only way Id be supportive of that (Dept. of Ag regulating medical marijuana) is if they treated marijuana as a noxious weed. Sen. John Brenden (R-Scobey). I grew up in this senate district and I can tell you, nobody up there gives a damn about medical marijuana. Brenden is a bit noxious himself.
- Across the street from the church was a bevy of good-looking young ladies going in and out of this place they were growing marijuana across the street . I didnt know such good-looking women were interested in horticultural prospects Rev. Harris Himes. Where do we find these guys? Himes is made for mockery!
- I got a medical marijuana business who moved in next door to me and its been craziness ever since. You see em them behind their shop, behind the commercial building, they got their arms outstretched, theyre trying to fly. I find people sleeping in my vehicles in front of my business. A month and a half ago they buried a van. Austin Kaufman, Billings.
- Rep Ken Peterson: If women would make better choices they wouldnt get cervical and breast cancer. So defund family planning already.
- If you act gay in public, Rep Ken Peterson wants your felon ass in jail for a decade. Ten years in prison will teach you how to be straight, right?
- Steve Zabawa in SB 423 hearing: Marijuana is illegal! The state of Montana is gonna get arrested! Zabawa is no stranger to illegal activity, he does sell cars for a living. He also hires most of his employees from the Alpha House, a halfway house for men returning to society after being imprisoned for major crimes. Several of his current sales and management staff are felons, actually. A couple of them defrauded the federal government by filing false FEMA claims after Hurricane Katrina. After serving time, Zabawa hired them back!
- Sen. Ed Walker saying, I dont believe it can be reformed. It needs to be repealed. There are times the voters get it wrong, and that is what happened in 2004. I wonder if we may have also got it wrong in 201o when you were elected, Ed. Just sayin.
- Montana is now considered a source country, same as Columbia.- Speaker Mike Milburn (R-Cascade) I wonder why anyone would bury a van filled with marijuana if that is the case. So many questions.
- Sometimes the most compassionate answer you can give is no you dont need this, Senator Rowlie Hutton (R-Havre) said. When you love someone you are willing to do an intervention. I love this state, and its time we do an intervention, concluded Hutton, who wants to take away medicine from the ill. Compassionate indeed.
- The people who use medical marijuana for legitimate uses, theyve been had. I think they probably feel like the dog who gets in the car and as theyre driving they realize they are going to the vet instead of the park. They got in with the wrong crowd, testified Sen. Edward Walker (R-Billings). The wrong crowd, Sen. Walker, spends time with you and your buddies at that creepy temple under the rims.
- Tough DUI laws are destroying a way of life that has been in Montana for years and years, said Rep. Hale. But medical cannabis is WAY too dangerous.
- Homosexuals cant go out into the heterosexual community and try to recruit people, or try to enlist them in homosexual acts, Peterson says. He provides an example: Here, young man, your hormones are raging. Lets go in this bedroom, and well engage in some homosexual acts. Youll find you like it. Peterson hasnt actually seen this happen, he says, because I dont associate with that group of people at all Ive associated with mainstream people all my life. Again, those mainstream people hang out at the LDS temple in west Billings.
- And then we have this beauty. You be the judge.
Danielsgb
Well-Known Member
AMERICANS FOR SAFE ACCESS & MONTANA NORML
MEDICAL CANNABIS
COMMUNITY MEETING
SATURDAY, APRIL 23
Governor Schweitzer has vetoed HB161, the medical cannabis repeal bill, but our work is far from over.
SB423 is a repeal bill in sheeps clothing, and we need to act fast to ensure that this bill is not made into law.
Rather than infringing upon the rights of patients though the passage of SB423, our community must urge the Governor to veto SB423, and champion patient rights by ensuring
the legislature that he will create fair and reasonable regulations through administrative channels.
Join us to protest the passage of SB423 to ensure patient rights are upheld!
Who: Montana Medical Cannabis Community
What: Rally Against SB423
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011 starting at 12p
Where: Outside the Governors Office near the north steps.
1301 East 6th Ave., Helena, Montana 59601
Questions, Comments, Concerns? [email protected] or call 240 393 5504
MEDICAL CANNABIS
COMMUNITY MEETING
SATURDAY, APRIL 23
Governor Schweitzer has vetoed HB161, the medical cannabis repeal bill, but our work is far from over.
SB423 is a repeal bill in sheeps clothing, and we need to act fast to ensure that this bill is not made into law.
Rather than infringing upon the rights of patients though the passage of SB423, our community must urge the Governor to veto SB423, and champion patient rights by ensuring
the legislature that he will create fair and reasonable regulations through administrative channels.
Join us to protest the passage of SB423 to ensure patient rights are upheld!
Who: Montana Medical Cannabis Community
What: Rally Against SB423
When: Saturday, April 23, 2011 starting at 12p
Where: Outside the Governors Office near the north steps.
1301 East 6th Ave., Helena, Montana 59601
Questions, Comments, Concerns? [email protected] or call 240 393 5504
Danielsgb
Well-Known Member
So Today I went to a protest of a Mercedes Benz dealership owned by Steve Zabawa. He is a Rep. for repeal. He is a Mormon who want to make us follow his Morality. We were there for 3 hrs. and had many Honks. I ended up on the local news. Maybe next time an interview.
Daniels
Here is Brother Zabawa
[video]http://www.youtube.com/user/MTConnectMagazine#p/search/0/PMCRpNfZGIk[/video]
Daniels
Here is Brother Zabawa
[video]http://www.youtube.com/user/MTConnectMagazine#p/search/0/PMCRpNfZGIk[/video]
Danielsgb
Well-Known Member
I better add my Dark Rain an f1 cross of Dark Star and Purple Rain to this thread. They will end up showing up in a chamber to be decided later. I also started 2 Dark Star seeds so they should sprout soon.
Daniels
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Danielsgb
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Send in your message. They need to hear your voices.
I got this e-mail today.
Daniels
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: News/Update from PATIENTS & FAMILIES UNITED
To:
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 5:15 PM
[Because we continually update our e-mailing list, this may be your first edition of our periodic news/update about medical marijuana and pain-treatment issues in Montana. By Tom Daubert, founder/director/lobbyist for Patients & Families United.]
· ALERT: Key House & Senate Votes Expected Tomorrow
· Urge House & Senate NO Votes on SB 423 Conference Committee Report
· Next Steps
Key House & Senate Votes Expected Tomorrow, 4/20
In an irony as laden with sadness as SB 423 is with arbitrary and deliberately unworkable and punishing provisions, tomorrow, April 20, will likely be the day on which both the House and Senate vote on a free conference committee report that legislators completed just moments ago.
The SB 423 conference committee report puts the finishing touches on a bill we call repeal in disguise and that others have called the black market bill a bill literally intended to get as close to repeal as possible. Well, mission accomplished.
SB 423 would stick Montana with the very worst medical marijuana law in the country. It is filled with arbitrary and extreme requirements intended to make it virtually impossible for patients with chronic pain to become legal and to make it extremely unlikely that any approved patient will have reasonably reliable and consistent access to medical-grade cannabis. Any physician making more than 15 recommendations within a year gets investigated, and pays for all the investigations. Chronic pain patients need two different physicians to do a complete exam unless they have proof of the etiology of their pain. Probationers are banned from eligibility, no matter how dire their medical need for cannabis. Federal medical privacy rights go out the window as local law enforcement is notified of every patients status. No one can grow for more than three patients, and people cant grow cooperatively or efficiently at shared locations. You grow either for infused (non-smokeable) products only, or for bud not both. All growing and production must be free. You can never possess more than four mature, flowering plants and up to 12 seedlings (no taller than 12 inches, after which they magically become mature and flowering), nor more than one ounce of cannabis. Labs for quality control are essentially banned.
SB 423 is literally designed to fail patients not to work as voters intended.
(By the time floor votes on the conference committee report are held, a copy of the new bill should be available via the Legislatures webpage. The conference committee adopted more than 160 amendments over the last several days.)
Urge House & Senate Members to Vote NO on SB 423
A recent poll by Mason-Dixon found that 87% of Montana voters want either no change or regulatory reform of the medical marijuana law. Montana voters DONT want repeal in disguise.
And, while most agree that the law needs to be fixed, legislators SHOULD NOT accept SB 423s punishing provisions simply because legislative leaders have not allowed alternatives to survive.
Please take a moment to send your own email to all members of both the House and Senate. You can copy and paste your personal message, which will be delivered to all 150 legislators, here:
http://www.montanadrugpolicy.org/alert/40
Next Steps
If the conference committee report passes both the House and Senate, the bill will then go to the Governor for consideration. If his office formally receives it while the Legislature is still in session, one of his options will be to issue an amendatory veto, in which he could propose changes to SB 423 in a take it or leave it move. But if the Legislature has shut down by the time the bill gets to the Governors office, then his only choices would be to veto or accept the bill (with or without his actual signature).
Its not too early to urge the Governor to Veto SB 423 unless he is willing and able to transform it into regulation that will actually work for legitimate patients.
Heres a site from which you can easily send your message to Governor Schweitzer:
http://www.montanadrugpolicy.org/alert/39
[Founded in early 2007, Patients & Families United works to support Montanas medical marijuana patients, regardless of their medical condition, and pain patients, whether they use medical marijuana or not. If you dont want to be on the mailing list for these periodic updates, please email to tell us at [email protected]. Visit our website for background and information of use: www.mtpfu.org. We welcome feedback of any kind, including stiff, honest criticism, but we reserve the right to remove from our mailing lists anyone who makes a habitual practice of sending threatening or irrational flames.]
www.mtpfu.org
I got this e-mail today.
Daniels
From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: News/Update from PATIENTS & FAMILIES UNITED
To:
Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 5:15 PM
[Because we continually update our e-mailing list, this may be your first edition of our periodic news/update about medical marijuana and pain-treatment issues in Montana. By Tom Daubert, founder/director/lobbyist for Patients & Families United.]
· ALERT: Key House & Senate Votes Expected Tomorrow
· Urge House & Senate NO Votes on SB 423 Conference Committee Report
· Next Steps
Key House & Senate Votes Expected Tomorrow, 4/20
In an irony as laden with sadness as SB 423 is with arbitrary and deliberately unworkable and punishing provisions, tomorrow, April 20, will likely be the day on which both the House and Senate vote on a free conference committee report that legislators completed just moments ago.
The SB 423 conference committee report puts the finishing touches on a bill we call repeal in disguise and that others have called the black market bill a bill literally intended to get as close to repeal as possible. Well, mission accomplished.
SB 423 would stick Montana with the very worst medical marijuana law in the country. It is filled with arbitrary and extreme requirements intended to make it virtually impossible for patients with chronic pain to become legal and to make it extremely unlikely that any approved patient will have reasonably reliable and consistent access to medical-grade cannabis. Any physician making more than 15 recommendations within a year gets investigated, and pays for all the investigations. Chronic pain patients need two different physicians to do a complete exam unless they have proof of the etiology of their pain. Probationers are banned from eligibility, no matter how dire their medical need for cannabis. Federal medical privacy rights go out the window as local law enforcement is notified of every patients status. No one can grow for more than three patients, and people cant grow cooperatively or efficiently at shared locations. You grow either for infused (non-smokeable) products only, or for bud not both. All growing and production must be free. You can never possess more than four mature, flowering plants and up to 12 seedlings (no taller than 12 inches, after which they magically become mature and flowering), nor more than one ounce of cannabis. Labs for quality control are essentially banned.
SB 423 is literally designed to fail patients not to work as voters intended.
(By the time floor votes on the conference committee report are held, a copy of the new bill should be available via the Legislatures webpage. The conference committee adopted more than 160 amendments over the last several days.)
Urge House & Senate Members to Vote NO on SB 423
A recent poll by Mason-Dixon found that 87% of Montana voters want either no change or regulatory reform of the medical marijuana law. Montana voters DONT want repeal in disguise.
And, while most agree that the law needs to be fixed, legislators SHOULD NOT accept SB 423s punishing provisions simply because legislative leaders have not allowed alternatives to survive.
Please take a moment to send your own email to all members of both the House and Senate. You can copy and paste your personal message, which will be delivered to all 150 legislators, here:
http://www.montanadrugpolicy.org/alert/40
Next Steps
If the conference committee report passes both the House and Senate, the bill will then go to the Governor for consideration. If his office formally receives it while the Legislature is still in session, one of his options will be to issue an amendatory veto, in which he could propose changes to SB 423 in a take it or leave it move. But if the Legislature has shut down by the time the bill gets to the Governors office, then his only choices would be to veto or accept the bill (with or without his actual signature).
Its not too early to urge the Governor to Veto SB 423 unless he is willing and able to transform it into regulation that will actually work for legitimate patients.
Heres a site from which you can easily send your message to Governor Schweitzer:
http://www.montanadrugpolicy.org/alert/39
[Founded in early 2007, Patients & Families United works to support Montanas medical marijuana patients, regardless of their medical condition, and pain patients, whether they use medical marijuana or not. If you dont want to be on the mailing list for these periodic updates, please email to tell us at [email protected]. Visit our website for background and information of use: www.mtpfu.org. We welcome feedback of any kind, including stiff, honest criticism, but we reserve the right to remove from our mailing lists anyone who makes a habitual practice of sending threatening or irrational flames.]
© 2011 byPatients & Families United
Patients & Families United
PO Box 1471
Helena, MT 59624
PO Box 1471
Helena, MT 59624
Danielsgb
Well-Known Member
Here was one of my letters to them last night..
When you go to vote on the horrible bill I would like each of you to read these quotes.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? Rose Kennedy
As a MS patient I only have so many days to delight in Rose Kennedy's said sunlight. To vote for this bill will make me suffer.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
You are taking away my rights to be my own author through my Multiple Sclerosis.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
The Voting Public is seeing the truth. The lies told this session as fact about Cannabis will have the sun shown on them When re-election comes up these preposterous claims will revisit you.
I say once again. Look at the Grey bill.
When you go to vote on the horrible bill I would like each of you to read these quotes.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? Rose Kennedy
As a MS patient I only have so many days to delight in Rose Kennedy's said sunlight. To vote for this bill will make me suffer.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Buddha
You are taking away my rights to be my own author through my Multiple Sclerosis.
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
Buddha
The Voting Public is seeing the truth. The lies told this session as fact about Cannabis will have the sun shown on them When re-election comes up these preposterous claims will revisit you.
I say once again. Look at the Grey bill.