Tell CA Governor Brown to Veto Bad Bills
August 28th, 2011Posted by Don Duncan
There are two bills on the Governor’s desk that will severely limit safe access to medical cannabis in California. Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is calling on supporters to contact Governor Jerry Brown today and ask him to veto SB 847 and AB 1300 to protect local access in our communities.
Can you take a few minutes right now to call or email Governor Brown? ASA’s online action center makes it easy!
Senator Lou Correa’s (D-Santa Ana) SB 847 requires that medical cannabis cooperatives and collectives be located at least 600 feet from any residential zone or use. This will force patients’ associations to the outskirts of most cities – if they can find a location at all! Assemblymember Bob Blumenfield’s (D-Van Nuys) AB 1300 explicitly authorizes cities and counties to ban cooperatives and collectives. That means access can be eliminated in some communities altogether! That is not what voters intended when they adopted Proposition 215 in 1996, calling on lawmakers “to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana.”
These bills passed through the legislature easily. If we do not make a good show of opposition at the Governor’s office, he will sign SB 847 and AB 1300 into law. Research conducted by ASA and years of experience in implementing our state law show that sensible regulations reduce crime and complaints around cooperatives and collectives. Tell Governor Brown we can work with lawmakers to adopt better laws than these.
Please act today. The bills could be signed at any minute! Thank you for helping.
August 29th, 2011 at 5:35 am
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August 30th, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Governor Brown,
Please Veto the bills SB 847 and AB 1300 . They only hinder the 215 law passed by the people. We can work with lawmakers to adopt a better option than what is on the bills SB 847 and AB 1300 . We do not need more red tape. There are simple solutions. Please do not pass these bills. Work for the people not against us!
August 30th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
So much effort goes into getting medicinal use passed in each state and so many more states to get in passed in. We can not afford to be taking steps backwards. For the sake of all patients nationwide, Please make the call!
Changing things at the federal level will make this all so much easier.
Tell your Congressional Representatives -
It is time to “Change the Schedule of Cannabis, Cannabis Laws, and Drug Czar Laws”
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This petition uses laws passed by Congress to point out that by their laws, the laws must change.
If you haven’t asked your representative and senator to support policy change, what are you waiting for? Sign the petition then send a email.
Every year 1.5 million people are sickened or severely injured by medication mistakes, and 100,000 die.
According to a 2007 study by Furberg and colleagues, 4 of the top 10 deadliest drugs are the strong opiate painkillers like oxycodone.
The fifth deadliest drug is acetaminophen, available one over-the-counter. It can cause irreversible and sometimes fatal liver damage in doses that are not much higher than the effective dose. Roughly 400 deaths and 42,000 hospitalizations occur each year due to acetaminophen overdoses.
Darvon and Darvocet, a mild opiate drug have been found to be no more effective than aspirin— yet they can cause heart damage.
86 million people suffer chronic pain. According to the National Institute of Health (NIH) more than 1/3 of Americans suffer a chronic pain condition at some point in their life. In a 1998 guide on directions of pain research by the NIH, and still in today’s economy as noted in a NIH January 2010 document, the economic impact is 100 Billion Dollars a year.
Not one person has ever died from cannabis in the entire history of the plant! Cannabis is a proven anti-inflammaory. Inflammation causes diseases of all sorts.
If the body is low on cannabinoids, just as with any other deficiency, the body does not function correctly since the endocannabinoid system regulates all other systems in the body. Misinformation has done much damage over the last 73 years as has the war on a plant and those who use it. Cannabis has continually been shown to be a remarkable anti-inflammatory which could be of great help to the 86 million people that suffer chronic pain. No one ever died from cannabis/marijuana though much suffering has taken place from the prohibition of it. It is time to end this travesty.
Lack of cannabinoids – can cause cancer, digestive ailments, migrains, fibromyalgia, just to name a few. We are now generations into cannabinoid deprivation and the health consequences are showing.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:27 pm
[...] Yeah enjoy it while you can, I live in cali and frequently enjoy quality nugs from my pick of dispensaries, but these new laws are going to change all that. Follow the link send the letter, one bill was just signed into law today or yesterday, say bye bye to safe access for medical patients, the government is going to force us back to the black market, where they make the big bucks putting us behind bars. http://safeaccessnow.org/blog/?p=1819 [...]
September 1st, 2011 at 10:34 pm
I am a medical cannabis user, and this law would be unfair to me, and the thousand other medical users. This is treating people who need medicine as criminals. Making someone travel miles from medicine is not only cruel but insensitive, Some of need cannabis for our pains or problems. I hope you do the right thing and realize that we are not criminals but law abiding citizens who are not trying to abuse the system.
September 3rd, 2011 at 3:23 pm
good day Governor…………………….
why lose the tax revenue……….it would be huge
just think of the hwy repairs sorely needed….etc etc etc….
and why not have the same rules as Alcohol,….must be 21 yrs
September 6th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
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