Okay all of you patients who are dreading the dispensary laws.. and I know you are many, need to wake up, grow some juevos and start cutting and pasting lawsuits. We need to jam the courts, we need to boycott dispensaries, we need to protest outside of dispensaries, we need to not re-apply for our cards when they expire. Think about it. We will become criminals anyway. I know I myself, my son and many others in my area are on a very low third world income. For over a year we have been forced to invest in our own medication. For the state to sponsor its own private drug cartel is appauling. It is constitutionally wrong both federally ( which will do us no good) and state ( which is a valid point) We cannot wait until we are round up and thrown in jail, or forced to plea to keep our meager assets. We cannot support not one dispensary. Who do you think wrote this little scam into law in the first place. If you are sick of being manipulated by the rich and poweful you need to fight back. Many of us are truly disabled living on as little as 680 a month. How do we survive as it is let alone having to decide if we are going to have shelter, return to opiates or pay for medication we have invested up to several thousand dollars into and time and love? If you don't challange this now you will be arrested. Every county prosecutor is drooling to imprison the sick and poor and I can only imagine how many government officials are vested into the mulit million dollar cartel of state sponsored drug dealing. We are not to be forced to purchase our medications from anyone that is our right under AZ constitution. We are not to be denied equal rights that is the AZ constitution. Basically, stating that just because you live in one place and not another is what makes us criminals is illegal under the states own constitution. I know it is not easy, I know it may be time consuming. We can file 28k lawsuits or pool our funds of 100 or more each and hire a lawyer to file a lawsuit for all. Something. We also need to start gathering signatures we are too late this year but it can be brought to representatives at anytime and they can vote on a stand alone issue. I am desperate. I am tired. I have tried and tried to get to people with no one seeming to care. Your freedom is worth fighting for isn't it? THE FIRST THING TO DO IS BANKRUPT THE DISPENSARIES.. WITHOUT ONE IN YOUR AREA YOUR RIGHTS TO GROW ARE RESTORED. IF THEY REALLY CARED ABOUT US, THE PATIENTS THEY WOULD HAVE REFUSED TO APPLY UNTIL THE LAW WAS CHANGED. ALL THEY SEE IS HOW TO RAPE US AND GET RICHER. ONE COMPANY APPLIED FOR 51 APPLICATIONS AT 5K A PEICE AND FORFEITING 4K EA ONE REFUSED. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE. DO THEY MATTER TO US? NO. SHUT THEM DOWN... RATHER SUPPORT THE MEXICAN CARTEL THEN AZ STATE SPONSORED CARTEL.
Heres my main reason for not wanting the 25mile rule. For the 1st time I went to a compassion club here in town, I donated 20 for a gram of their available med's. I got home and compaired their bud next to one of my home grown med's. As you can see my med's (on the right btw) by far outshine theirs. ABOLISH THE 25mile RULE....and LET OUR PEOPLE GROW!!!!
-- Edited by RX420 on Sunday 26th of August 2012 12:04:08 PM
-- Edited by RX420 on Sunday 26th of August 2012 12:06:05 PM
There's been a lot written about this over the past year +.
As far as filing lawsuites....for what? Nobody has been prevented from anything - yet. My understanding, is that in order to file anything in a way that has any possibility of making an impact, there has to be a denial of the right to grow. That has not happened yet. Nobody has been damaged or denied anything to date.
As for changing the 25 mile rule, that will not happen. It's a voter approved state law. It cannot be amended by state lawmakers. To change any portion of that, requires going back to the voters, who BARELY passed it in the first place. Careful here, the whole thing can be tossed out if the law goes back to the voters to change the terms of what was originally voted upon, and approved.
Your best bet: Hope the State finds reasons and ways to tie up the opening of dispensaries through the legal system. This results in patients still being able to grow, since no dipensaries are open. The MMJ laws in Arizona could be perfect as-is, if they are left alone, and dispensaries are unable to actually open.
Just barely passed maybe.. but if brought again under same laws would probably not pass. I as a pateint would not give a crap if I was legal or not if I really understood the impact of being forced to purchase my medication from a handful of rich opportunists or being incarcerated just because of where I am living. As far as keeping dispensaries from opening.. that is a pipe dream. As far as law suits can be filled prior to damage if imminiant damage is foreseen. Which it is. We can sue to show that this is unconstitutional and therefore the law is void. I as is many in this state.. going to become a criminal anyway so I was safer when I was not on some state system. I am too poor and too sick to pay for medication. I struggle to find the 225 min it requires me to have to renew my card each year and the extra 75 a month for my electric to grow my own. I would rather it be illegal for all then only illegal for the poor and sick.
I completely agree. I live in the Prescott area,, we don't have the choices of major metro. In any case due to being poor, which is due to being sick, which is why I was granted a card; I was recently forced to move yet again due to a landlord selling my rental. I was finally at the point of investement and growth to have a perpetual garden of amazing medications, specifically grown for my needs and orgnaically grown for sure. The move or stress of trying to find a place to live at 50 something on less income then most third worlds and no support I was forced to ignore my crop and when I did find a place I was forced to wing it with a small polyroom for now. I lost over half my crop, had to reveg the rest to get them healthy and now three months after first trying to flower I am seeing the preflowers.. So I am having to buy my meds. Twenty a gram is riduculious. Prior to legalization I could find amazing medicine for half that.. and it was better. What I am getting now from others is crap. I have no idea what chemicals where used on or in them and I am sacraficing food and shelter to not have to go back to over 23 prescriptions which left me in a four year zombie state. So what I am saying is that it is not legal if you cannot afford it.. if you grow your own when dispensaries open you are once again a felon drug offense. Removing any foodstamps.. which being ill and on a meager SSDI is the only way I eat except the few meager pots of tomatoes and peppers I drag with me rental to rental. I live like a dog with fleas on the streets of any third world. I have to beg to get help to just live a simple but humane life, (and no I don't have cable TV or a fancy car or new furniture or any real luxury not even AC or central heat) to pay a meager electrical or water bill or to find shelter not filled with black mold or to live alone and not in a retirement home due to my income level. Let alone able to purchase dispensary meds. If you read some of my other posts on the no 25 mile rule etc you will see that I have options for all of us. If no one and I mean basically no one uses the dispensaries they will shut down again allowing us to cultivate. If you protests, if you boycott, if you sit outside a dispensary with the true facts, and persuade others to support true justice then we have a loophole.. If for some reason the laws gets revoked I am not in any worse situation than I will be once a dispensary opens here. I cannot and will not pay someone for the same medication I am more than vested and qualified to produce for myself. I also will not pay the state to have my information and tell me where I can get my meds.. to just arrest me if I do not support this state sponsored drug cartel. I call it this because that is exactly what it is. A few rich, state backed drug dealers controlling the entire states medical supply and costs. I don't mind dispensaries.. in any other state... as long as there is choice. But being told you must support the few or become a prisonor is wrong and if we don't throw a wrench in this game they think we are all too stupid to see what is really going on, well then we are as stupid as they had hoped. Its not just about decriminalzing medication, its about the freedom to make our own choices once decriminalizaton is set. They will say we have a choice... we can choose not to apply for cards, or choose not to use MMJ, but when you are someone like me. Someone who spent years in a Pharmicutical state ( and because of my meds I have lost so much, my teeth, my liver, and for four years I was not able to visit my daughter and my new grandson and a year ago she committed suicide and I will never see her or my grandson again. That is when I weened myself off meds even though I was told by my Drs I would die) So there is no justification to me to support the state or the dispensaries as the law sits. I was able to find meds cheaper and of higher quality prior, I was able to fly under the radar and use my medication in my home without much fear since I am just an older lady who is sick and disabled not causing a problem. Now I am the problem... and proud to be... I will never roll over for greed and power.
