Below is a photo from a magazine for growers in which Bruce Margolin extols the Medical Marijuana & Safety Act (MMRSA).

      Margolin, a licensed attorney, has been the President of LA NORML for several decade.  (Do these NORML chapters even hold elections for officers anymore?  If you’re a NORML member, have you ever seen NORML’s by-laws?  or Articles of Incorporation?  Do you even know what your rights as a member happen to be?)

     What Margolin didn’t mention is that the MMRSA’s provisions that purport to re-criminalize aspects of marijuana possession and cultivation for patients are unconstitutional under Prop. 215.

    Furthermore, Margoloin failed to mention that MMRSA’s efforts to turn medical marijuana into a for-profit business in which non-patients can participate to grow and sell marijuana for a profit are also unconstitutional under Prop. 215 — which is still the law of the land when it comes to medical marijuana.

    The Compassionate Use Act, put into place by Prop. 215, is still the law of the land in California, regardless of the Legislature’s efforts.   The current Legislature’s adoption of MMRSA is just like how states and local governments adopted Jim Crow laws to try to keep blacks in their place, despite the contrary constitutional law ending slavery and discrimination that WE, the PEOPLE, fought and died to put into place.

    So the Legislature is passing Jim Crow-tyupe laws directed at medcial marijuana patients, to encourage anti-medical-marijuana discrimination.  Why?  To help the “industry” f**k over patients, to f**k over the people who need to grow cannabis for themselves and their families’ medicinal need, because they cannot afford to pay $18 a gram (Steve D’Angelo’s  current price?) for the 3 pounds it takes to make Rick Simpson Oil.

    To make MMRSA “Stick” and become constitutional, the Legislature and the industry need Sean Parker’s POS, The Adult Use of Marijuana Act, to pass.  So all these groups like NORML, DPA. MAPP. LEAP. etc., which are being funded by the people who intend to profit from continuing “legalized” prohibition, as well as teh Democratic insiders working with Gavin Newsom, NEED AUMA to pass.

    If you like you Prop. 215 rights, you can kiss them goodbye if AUMA passes.

   But we spent the day in West Hollywood demonstrating and explaining to people how AUMA is a trick to take away everyone’s Prop. 215 rights, and once they got it, they GOT it!

    Spread the word across California:    Sean Parker was one of the billionaire boys who tried to monopolize marijuana in Ohio, and the billionaires got voted down.  If Ohio can kick Parker’s ass, so can California!

Should Pro-Marijuana Voters Vote for the Only “Marijuana Legalization” Initiative on the Ballot, If It’s AUMA?

I just got an e-mail from a good NorCal Libertarian who is trying to make an educated decision about how to vote this November.  He wanted to know where he could get information comparing the various marijuana initiatives that would be on the November ballot.  I had to tell him that there are no competing initiatives that will be on the ballot.  Only The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) still has a chance (time and money!) to get enough signatures to get on the ballot.

    So, should pro-marijuana voters vote for the only “marijuana legalization” initiative on the ballot, if it’s AUMA?

    Heck, no!

    When people think of competing initiatives, they think of things still to be voted upon, between which they can make a choice.  But the real choice Californians will have if AUMA gets enough signatures to get on the ballot (and scores of unhappy people are now sending in letters asking to have their signatures removed, see https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg0atguy4mf924c/Request%20to%20withdraw%20name%20from%20Initiative%20petition.docx?dl=0  is going to be between the still-circulating AUMA and California’s already existing “medical marijuana” law, “The Compassionate Use Act,” which became law in 1996 when the People of California voted for Prop. 215.

    To me, there’s no real choice.  If you like marijuana and want to be able to grow, use and possess it, you’ll start working against AUMA to keep it off the ballot, and, failing that, you’ll be out registering people to vote NO on AUMA in November.

    Why?  Because AUMA is actually a Trojan Horse, designed to take away all Californians’ existing individual rights to grow, possess and use marijuana.  If AUMA passes, it turns our constitutionally-protected rights to grow, possess and even use marijuana without any criminal penalties (or taxes!) into revocable privileges, privileges that the Legislature can revoke with a simple majority vote.

    The Legislature will do that, too, when it comes to the privilege to grow, The reason is simple: elected officials want to extract as much money from us as possible, and you can’t tax stuff that people are growing in their own yards and homes — unless AUMA passes!

    There is big, BIG money behind AUMA.  My simple example of just how much money is at stake is this. Between 2007 and now, I stopped using all prescription drugs for my MS and began using only a plant I can grow for myself,  In nine-plus years, I and my health insurer have saved more than $600,000.00 in drug costs alone, not to mention all the money that didn’t go to doctors and MRIs.

    Multiply those savings by the 400,000 people in the US with MS, and the 2 million worldwide with MS, and you’re talking trillions over several decades.  And that’s only one disease.  Marijuana works for a lot of other diseases just as simply, as a whole herb, no processing needed.  And marijuana could wipe out expensive, dangerous and leads-to-another-kind-of-cancer radiation and chemo treatments, too.

    When you realize how much money the pharmaceutical/medical complex is losing and WILL lose as more people find out how good marijuana is for lots of problems, you can imagine the amount of money Big Pharma and Big Medicine would be willing to throw into the campaign to get AUMA passed.

    Earlier I noted that all Californians have a constitutionally-protected right to grow, use and possess marijuana as medicine, and have had that right since 1996. So then why have there been so many arrests and prosecutions in the past two decades? Simple: your elected officials feel they are above the law.

    What’s hard for people to accept, let alone understand, is that elected officials often refuse to follow the law. Just think of Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, ax handle in hand, blocking black students from entering a public school to try to keep unconstitutional segregation alive and well.  Yes, just look what happened when the Civil War freed the slaves and they were granted equal rights.  State and local governments passed Jim Crow laws that were unconstitutional  — but that were enforced against citizens by government-backed law enforcement for more than 100 years!

    The only way to keep a protected right is to understand that you have it, and then to fight for it.  But  who has been helping you understand that you actually have a constitutionally-protected right yo grow, use and possess marijuana?  Not NORML.  Not ASA, Not MAPP, LEAP, or the horribley-misnamed Brownie Mary Democratic Club.

    Yes, the cannabis civil rights movement has been hamstrung by Judas Goat organizations, many of them funded indirectly by people with interests in Monsanto, like George Soros, which have not organized any meaningful uprising by the people who choose to use marijuana instead of prescription drugs, whose civil rights have been blatantly violated for years, without a peep of opposition from the ACLU or the NAACP or any “marijuana-related” organization.

    So, to keep your existing, dishonored-by-your-own-elected-officials, yet still-constitutionally-protected rights under Prop. 215, you must vote no on AUMA.  If you’d like to read my legal analysis of AUMA that shows how it’s set up to allow the California Legislature to take away everyone’s right to grow, you can find it here:4pepper

The Adult Use of Marijuana Act” (AUMA) from Sean Parker is BAD?

Would you like to help spread the word to people who’re not in the “cannabis movement” that “The Adult Use of Marijuana Act” (AUMA)  from Sean Parker is BAD?

     I belong to an online-community, Nextdoor is the free private social network for your neighborhood community.

Nextdoor is the free private social network for your neighborhood community. Over 98,000 communities across the U.S. are using Nextdoor to strengthen their neighborhoods.

   You can post messages about good restaurants, a missing dog, upcoming events, handymen needed, you name it, by joining this group.  So I decided to post information about myself, my use of marijuana, and why I hope my neighbors will vote NO on AUMA,

    The way the LGBT etc. community finally made headway in its civil rights struggles was to get people to COME OUT as queer.  So people who are lawfully using cannabis/marijuana also need to start coming out.

   Here’s what I posted on Nextdoor under the title “Please Protect California Patients’ Right to Use Medical Marijuana Instead of Prescription Drugs”

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   I am sharing this message because my right, and the right of many other people who use medical marijuana instead of the prescription drugs that made them sick, is at stake this year.

    Since 2007, I have used medical marijuana instead of the prescription drugs that made me sick. I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1993, and was a guinea pig for the pharmaceutical industry until 2007.  The things I learned about how prescription drugs are tested for safety and efficacy would shock you!

   Someone just asked me where he could get information comparing the various marijuana initiatives that would be on the November ballot.  I had to tell him that there are no competing initiatives that will be on the ballot.  Only The Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA) still has a chance (time and money!) to get enough signatures to get on the ballot.

    Unfortunately, a lot of pro-marijuana voters will vote for the only “marijuana legalization” initiative on the ballot, even if it is AUMA.  They want to legalize marijuana, and haven’t taken the time to read AUMA, which is 62-pages long and very dense.  Since my health depends on marijuana, I always read these things through and through, and AUMA is very, VERY bad for patients  A lot of people in California are using medical marijuana instead of prescription drugs to treat seizures, autism, Alzheimer’s Disease, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer and a lot more .Why?  Because it doesn’t have the side effects that poisonous prescription drugs have.  Prescription drugs are synthetic, made with fossil fuels, which is why they must be given in carefully-calculated doses — they are poisonous!

     So the real choice Californians will have in November, if AUMA gets enough signatures to get on the ballot, (and scores of unhappy people are now sending in letters asking to have their signatures removed, see https://www.dropbox.com/s/xg0atguy4mf924c/Request%20to%20withdraw%20name%20from%20Initiative%20petition.docx?dl=0 )

is going to be between the still-circulating AUMA and California’s already existing “medical marijuana” law, “The Compassionate Use Act,” which became law in 1996 when the People of California voted for Prop. 215.

    To me, there’s no real choice.  If you need medical marijuana and want to be able to grow, use and possess it, you’ll start working against AUMA to keep it off the ballot, and, failing that, you’ll be out registering people to vote NO on AUMA in November.

    Why?  Because AUMA is actually a Trojan Horse, designed to take away all Californians’ existing individual rights to grow, possess and use medical marijuana.  If AUMA passes, it turns our constitutionally-protected rights to grow, possess and even use medical marijuana without any criminal penalties into revocable privileges, privileges that the Legislature can revoke with a simple majority vote.

    The Legislature will do that, too, when it comes to the privilege to grow, The reason is simple: elected officials want to extract as much money from us as possible, and you can’t tax stuff that people are growing in their own yards and homes — unless AUMA passes!

    There is big, BIG money behind AUMA.  My simple example of just how much money is at stake is this. Between 2007 and now, I stopped using all prescription drugs for my MS and began using only a plant I can grow for myself,  In nine-plus years, I and my health insurer have saved more than $600,000.00 (more than one-half MILLION dollars!) in drug costs alone, not to mention all the money that didn’t go to doctors and MRIs and other tests.

    Multiply those savings by the 400,000 people in the US with MS, and the 2 million worldwide with MS, and you’re talking trillions over several decades.  And that’s only one disease.  Marijuana works for a lot of other diseases just as simply, as a whole herb, no processing needed.  And marijuana could wipe out expensive, dangerous and leads-to-another-kind-of-cancer radiation and chemo treatments, too.

    When you realize how much money the pharmaceutical/medical complex is losing and WILL lose as more people find out how good marijuana is for lots of problems, you can imagine the amount of money Big Pharma and Big Medicine would be willing to throw into the campaign to get AUMA passed.

    Earlier I noted that all Californians have a constitutionally-protected right to grow, use and possess marijuana as medicine, and have had that right since 1996. So then why have there been so many arrests and prosecutions in the past two decades? Simple: your elected officials feel they are above the law.

    What’s hard for people to accept, let alone understand, is that elected officials often refuse to follow the law. Just think of Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, ax handle in hand, blocking black students from entering a public school to try to keep unconstitutional segregation alive and well.  Yes, just look what happened when the Civil War freed the slaves and they were granted equal rights.  State and local governments passed Jim Crow laws that were unconstitutional  — but that were enforced against citizens by government-backed law enforcement for more than 100 years!

    The only way to keep a protected right is to understand that you have it, and then to fight for it.  But  who has been helping Californians understand that they actually have a constitutionally-protected right to grow, use and possess medical marijuana?  Not NORML.  Not ASA, Not MAPP, LEAP, or the horribly-mis-named Brownie Mary Democratic Club.

    Yes, the cannabis civil rights movement has been hamstrung by Judas Goat organizations, many of them funded indirectly by people with interests in Monsanto, like George Soros, which have not organized any meaningful uprising by the people who choose to use marijuana instead of prescription drugs, and whose civil rights have been blatantly violated for years, without a peep of opposition from the ACLU or the NAACP or any “marijuana-related” organization.

    So, please protect your friends, family and neighbors’ current and future rights to grow and use medical marijuana.  Vote NO on AUMA.  If you’d like to read my legal analysis of AUMA, you can find it here:4pepper

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PS  I’ve been an attorney since 1982, who worked primarily for appellate court justices doing research and writing appellate opinions.  No one is paying me for my work.

    People promoting AUMA, like Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris, on the other hand, are being “sponsored” by the Drug Policy Alliance.  And who is behind the Drug Policy Alliance?

    According to wikipedia, George Soros has been its major financier, with annual contributions of $4 million.  Soros is also a major shareholder in Monsanto, which would love to add cannabis to its stable of GMO crops — an outcome that AUMA will allow.

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Fear of the Truth.

   Chris Conrad says Letitia Pepper is delusional when it comes to Sean Parker’s Adult Use of Marijuana. He doesn’t explain WHY she’s delusional. So wouldn’t a debate be a great way to demonstrate who’s delusional about AUMA?      Yes, it would be a fabulous way to show just who’s crazy, which is why Chris keeps ducking Letitia Pepper’s challenge to an open, “mano-a-mano” debate on AUMA. A real debate, not a panel discussion, with plenty of time for as many questions from the audience as possible. He won’t agree to it. So please ask him to agree to an open, public debate, not a panel discussion, against Pepper. Here’s his e-mail: Chris@chrisconrad.com

    The reason Chris Conrad won’t agree to an open, public, “mano a mano” debate on AUMA with Pepper is that he will lose, and his handlers won’t like that. They need the vote of the pro-cannabis voters, which is why they are getting “names” from the old days, like Chris and Mikki, to shill for AUMA.

    We are the swing vote, the pro-marijuana voters, and the people behind AUMA need us! But they can kiss our butts, because we are turning our backs on AUMA! 

    
    
    
   

No Fricking Panel Discussion!

  How about we stick with my challenge to Chris Conrad, not with Jason Browne’s sudden attempt to defuse a serious, one-on-one debate? This is my idea, not Jason’s, and there’s a reason I said, “no panel discussions.”     Chris Conrad and Mikki Norris are the well-known people out shilling for AUMA.  

    I am the only person, to my knowledge, who went to the time and trouble (36 hours of specialized legal analysis and writing) to help anyone who can stand reading AUMA to see just how Chris and Mikki are mis-stating what AUMA will do so they can mislead the swing vote, the pro-marijuana voters.

    Chris Conrad has been calling me delusional, and he, and other shills for the corporations,called me worse over Prop. 19. I’ve been calling him a shill for the 1 percent for years now.

    So I don’t want a stinking “panel discussion,” which is why I specifically said, ‘no panel discussions.” Panel discussions are not appropriate for this kind of issue and this kind of personalized fight over good and evil.  

    This is a fight, not a discussion. This is a battle over who will totally control all plants, starting with cannabis.

    Panel discussions are BORING compared to a real debate. The text of AUMA is boring enough.

    What have people been watching with great interest? Not a “panel discussion” of presidential candidates!

    We need a true debate, a grudge match, between Conrad and Pepper. Anything else will be anticlimactic.
P.S. FYI, Jason Browne, I noticed how you picked your cc’d recipients to be heavily in the pro-AUMA camp (e.e., John Lee, Dave Hodges, Granddaddy Mike, the people who showed up for Lanny Swerdlow’s AUMA kick-off at the Brownie Mary Democratic Club party in San Jose. 

     The pro-AUMA people will WANT a panel discussion, because it’s boring and won’t get to the heart of the issues, I know how these games are played, which is why I’m not surprised that you suddenly decided to weigh in and say, “Let’s have a panel discussion.” After seeing your “business model” for CALiberty Alliance, I don’t trust your motives.

    If Chris Conrad won’t debate me, I’ll just put a mock Conrad in a chair, and have someone else read his lines from HIS analysis of AUMA, and debate him in absentia, like the coward he is.

LISTENING TO SUNDAY’S CHILD

Temecula, CA – Tis said, “Sunday’s child is fair and wise.” On Sunday, Letitia Pepper, the leading cannabis defender against madmen like the Gavin Newsom and Sean Parker, whose plan to fool voters into voting for AUMA, the Regulators’ Adult Use of Marijuana initiative is being touted around. So far, word on the street is all the meth heads and heroin addicts are looking to vote it in. That’s comforting to know, isn’t it?

  

In our last report, we looked at how old Sean lives. Seems like he knows a lot about poor medical marijuana patients, doesn’t it? Oh wait, he’s a hacker. That’s a thief. Now he’s a hijacker and living like a LeBron. Actually, when you look at the world now it makes perfect sense. Look at the people who support both Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. Look at these twos nefarious records and at how the two major parties are fighting Trump and Sanders, tooth and nail. Evil has become good, black has become white, oop, that hasn’t happened yet. It’s more like whites have become like some Africans [Idi Amin].
How do you deal with this kind of world chaos? You make order out of your section of the woods, and then you hope it spreads like in Daniel 2:35b [rear cover text of Memoirs of Mr. Pete & Mary Jane Green]. On Sunday, Letitia Pepper will address the panel at the High Times Cannabis Cup because she is fair and wise to the trickery of AUMA.

Today a passerby alerted me to the fat cash-filled wallet of a neighbor as he drove by. I know the neighbor. I took him his wallet, talked to him about AUMA and gave him two info packs concerning AUMA complete with DVD vid of this story. Needless to say, the Calendar will be at the Cup a second time. It’s a good start to the weekend, a good deed. R.I.P. John Stone, and thanks, we need all the help down here we can get. Say ‘hi’ to St. Bipsy and SRV for me.

This weekend should provide an interesting backdrop and revealing look into the civil war now being fought by cannabis activists, entrepreneurs, carpetbaggers, real super heroes, and your local Dr. Strange, the man who gave the last name to the female persona everyone seems to be so crazy about, Mary Jane.
Realistically this call is pretty simple, just as Jack Herer called it on page 267 [you know where], “It’s the plant. It’s the whole plant, cannabis, not marijuana, that’s what’s important.”
While various groups fight for various reprieves, redress, and equal rights, others rail against banks, wars, and political corruption. All these fights are tentacles of the kraken. The fight for cannabis involving AUMA is the head of the kraken because with cannabis owned, you can own Mother Nature since cannabis is a plant AND a herb. This has been the plan from the beginning. This was the reason for tempting Eve, the woman, causing a two-fold permanent black mark that has been the bane of Woman ever since.
For more on the Cannabis Cup keep it tuned here. For the complete lowdown about the Garden, see Chapter 20 [yep, yep].

Lanny Swerdlow of MAPP

    I suspect Lanny’s interest in the Libertarians running someone is to take votes away from Sanders so that untrustworthy bitch, Hillary Clinton, can win. Why?     Because Lanny Swerdlow, it appears to me after years of involvement in the marijuana issue and watching him try to shut down discussions about how bad both Prop. 19, and now AUMA, were and AR bad for the 99 percent.  

    It looks to me like Lanny, the creator of MAPP and the Brownie Mary Democratic Clubs, is part of the small cabal (which includes, so it seems to me, NORML, LEAP, ASA and the DPA ) that wants to tax, control and regulate marijuana to keep it valuable to both the 1 percent and to the illicit market that has been used by the 1 percent to fund all sorts of wars worldwide.

    So how do Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton differ when it comes to marijuana? Bernie wants to DE-schedule, while Hillary wants to RE-schedule. Marijuana — a plant! (since the word applies to the whole plant, not just the flowers) — should never have been scheduled as a drug in the first place. Fe-scheduling it lets Big Pharma and the banksters and Wall Street control and make a ton of money from something everyone should be able to grow and use like grapes.

    Bernie is doing very, very well without taking money from the corporations. Hillary continues to take corporate money AND, I suspect, marijuana mafia money, too. I humbly suggest that any Libertarian who wants to free the weed for real consider casting a vote for Bernie this election cycle.

APRIL 07, 2016REPORT BY RESPECTED PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CA UNDERSCORES KEY PROVISIONS OF ADULT USE OF MARIJUANA ACT HEADING TO BALLOT IN NOVEMBER

Measure adopts vast majority of report recommendations, incl. regulatory flexibility, strict oversight, child & environmental protections
APRIL 07, 2016

REPORT BY RESPECTED PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CA UNDERSCORES KEY PROVISIONS OF ADULT USE OF MARIJUANA ACT HEADING TO BALLOT IN NOVEMBER

 
Measure adopts vast majority of report recommendations, incl. regulatory flexibility, strict oversight, child & environmental protections

SACRAMENTO—A report called “Regulating Marijuana in California” released today by the respected Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) recommends in general terms and underscores the importance of many of the key provisions that are included in the ballot measure known as the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA), which will appear on the November 2016 ballot in California.
Drawing lessons from Washington and Colorado, where, the report notes, “neither overall (marijuana) use nor use by young people have risen dramatically,” the report recommends any approach to adult-use legalization in California include maximum regulatory flexibility, strong data collection, reporting and oversight, and a restrictive regulatory structure – all of which are included in AUMA.
“We are gratified that the PPIC report aligns so strongly and specifically with the Adult Use of Marijuana Act,” said Dr. Donald O. Lyman, MD, award-winning physician and former Chief of the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Control at the California Department of Public Health, who is the measure’s lead proponent. 
Specifically, AUMA mirrors the PPIC Report in the following ways:
PPIC Report: California should “approach legalization with an eye toward flexibility”. AUMA does precisely that, allowing both maximum regulatory flexibility and the Legislature to amend its regulatory provisions by a majority vote to make any adjustments or improvements necessary in years to come (Section 10).

PPIC Report: California should include a “strong and transparent reporting system” on outcomes. AUMA establishes just such a system, requiring the licensing agencies to submit annual reports to the Legislature and to post these reports publicly on their website. The Bureau of State Audits is also required to conduct annual audits (B&P § 26190, 26191). AUMA provides $10 million annually to public universities to “research and evaluate the implementation and effect” of the new law, and to recommend any needed amendments to the Legislature and Governor. In particular, the universities will study impacts on public health, public safety, the economy, and effectiveness. All reports will be made available to the public. (R&T § 34019)

PPIC Report: California should “adopt a relatively restrictive regulatory model for both the recreational and medical markets.” AUMA does this by mirroring and expanding on many of the regulations contained in the 2015 bipartisan medical marijuana legislation known as MMRSA, ensuring that non-medical marijuana can be tightly controlled, regulated and taxed.

PPIC Report: California should include “robust regulation of the entire supply chain.” By establishing the Bureau of Marijuana Control and building on the medical legislation, AUMA creates a comprehensive system to regulate both medical and non-medical marijuana. The Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) serves as the lead regulatory agency, while Department of Public Health (DPH) will oversee testing and manufacturing for all marijuana and the Department of Food & Agriculture (DFA) will oversee cultivation, mirroring the medical legislation (B&P § 26012).

PPIC Report: “A seed-to-sale tracking system is needed.” AUMA expands the Track and Trace program established in the medical legislation and requires that it include an electronic seed-to-sale tracking system (B&P § 26170).

PPIC Report: “Stiff penalties to suppress the illegal market are essential.” AUMA maintains prosecutors’ abilities to charge those engaged in illegal commercial marijuana activity with felonies, including for diverting marijuana to other states (H&S §11358). AUMA dedicates revenue to both administration and law enforcement, ensuring that law enforcement has the resources it needs to crack down on the illicit market (R&T § 34019).

PPIC Report: “California must set limits on the scale and location of production operations.” AUMA bars licensees from operating within 600 feet of any school or youth center, and empowers localities to expand that radius as needed. (B&P § 26054). Large cultivation licenses will not be issued for the first 5 years that AUMA is in effect. State regulators can issue those licenses after 5 years but only at their discretion and licensees would be subject to similar restrictions on vertical integration as provided in the medical marijuana legislation. Specifically, businesses that hold large cultivation licenses could not also hold distribution licenses. (B&P § 26061)

PPIC Report: “Production regulations might include residency requirements”. AUMA does include a requirement that any licensee must “demonstrate continuous California residency from or before January 1, 2015.” This provision allows California small businesses several years to establish themselves in the market (B&P § 26054.1)

PPIC Report: California needs specific environmental protections. AUMA includes both landmark environmental protections as well as unprecedented funding to restore the lands damaged by illegal grows (R&T § 34019). Marijuana businesses licensees are required to act in compliance with all applicable environmental laws to maintain their licenses, including California’s landmark Environmental Quality Act, Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act. (B&P § 26056.5)

PPIC Report: The report underscores the need for properly labeling, packaging and testing edible marijuana products. AUMA imposes the strictest regulations governing labeling, packaging and testing of nonmedical marijuana products in the nation — designed to protect children from accessing nonmedical marijuana, and to convey warnings and help educate adults about consuming marijuana safely. Labels on marijuana edibles will be as detailed as any food product – including a warning for nuts of other known allergens – and edibles must be sold in safe, standardized “portion” sizes. Packaging must be resealable, child resistant, and not made to be attractive to children. All nonmedical marijuana will be tested by an independent testing service to comply with consumer safety standards. (B&P § 26120).

PPIC Report: Colorado and Washington prohibit the public use of marijuana, confine sales to marijuana-only stores, and give local government control over regulating stores in their jurisdictions in addition to state regulations. AUMA does all these things, joining all legalized states in prohibiting public consumption of marijuana, not allowing any marijuana retailer to also sell alcohol or tobacco or to allow minors on its premises, and maintaining strong local control (H&S §11362.3, B&P § 261054, 26200).

PPIC Report: Recommends restricting non-medical marijuana use to adults aged 21 and over, which AUMA does (H&S §11362.1).

PPIC Report: Recommends that California implement strong measures to prevent minors from entering marijuana retail stores, including allowing law enforcement to use underage sting operations to ensure that retailers are complying with the age limit. AUMA provides for law enforcement to do this (B&P § 26140). 

PPIC Report: Recommends strong penalties for licensees which sell marijuana to minors. AUMA provides that selling to minors is illegal and grounds for license revocation (B&P § 26310).

PPIC Report: Recommends a public education campaign to address the issue of individuals driving while impaired by marijuana. AUMA requires this and allocates funds to the California Highway Patrol specifically to educate the public in traffic safety (R&T § 34019).

PPIC Report: Drugged driving prevention will require “training and the development of an accurate, practical test for marijuana that can withstand court scrutiny.” AUMA facilitates this by providing funds to the CHP to work with experts to establish and adopt a protocol to determine whether a driver is impaired by any substance, including marijuana. AUMA also funds training for law enforcement to recognize impairment, and to implement the new protocol (R&T § 34019).

PPIC Report: “California should implement prevention strategies” similar to prevention of other types of substance use and abuse. AUMA provides unprecedented funding to precisely this through the newly established Youth Education, Prevention, Early Intervention and Treatment Account. These funds will be used to educate kids about the dangers of substance abuse wherever they are, and particularly in schools. They will include family-based programs, to help parents educate their own kids and work together to prevent substance abuse (R&T § 34019).

PPIC Report: For youth who do abuse marijuana, “the state should direct them to treatment and diversion programs rather than prosecuting them.” AUMA removes entirely criminal penalties for marijuana possession by children, instead directing them to drug education or counseling and community service (H&S §11357).

PPIC Report: “California should establish recreational marijuana market regulations that adopt most features of the medical market.” AUMA does precisely this, building on the landmark medical marijuana legislation and extending its structure to control, regulate and tax responsible adult use of marijuana, while protecting children, safeguarding local control, protecting public health and public safety and defending our environment and water.

AUMA has been endorsed by the California Council of Land Trusts, Drug Policy Alliance, Marijuana Policy Project, California Cannabis Industry Association, California Medical Association, California NAACP, and national NORML, among others.

You can withdraw your vote…

   Did you know that if you sign an initiative petition, you can withdraw your signature? And if you do, your signature won’t count toward the final number needed to qualify for the ballot? This is very, very easy to do!      We are finding more and more people who signed AUMA without knowing all the gory details hidden in 62 pages of legalese. So we’ve created a form to make it very easy for everyone who wanted to “legalize marijuana,” but who didn’t realize that Sean Parker’s idea of “legalization” wasn’t quite the same as theirs, to withdraw their permission to replace their Prop. 215 constitutionally-protected rights with revocable privileges instead.

    Attached to this e-mail are two files, one a pdf file and one a .docx file. They contain the one-page form an unhappy voter can fill out and mail in to his or her Registrar of Voters, to have his or her signature removed as supporting an initiative.

    This form can be submitted to the voter’s Registrar of Voters at any time before the final initiative petition is filed with each County’s Registrar of Voters!  

    The so-called Sean Parker’s “The Adult Use of Marijuana Act” has certified that it has collected 25 percent of the signatures needed to get on the November 2016 ballot. However, that fact has NO EFFECT on voters’ ability to withdraw their signatures! People can withdraw their signatures by sending in these “Request to Remove Signature from Initiative” forms up until the day that the proponents of this POS initiative do the final turn-in of the petition to each County Registrar of Voters!

    Please help defeat AUMA by sharing this request to withdraw signature form far and wide! Here’s a link to the form that you can post in comments on articles about AUMA, or on Facebook, or in e-mails to your friends!