D.C. Town Hall Meeting to Address Medical Marijuana Program
Tue, Feb 08, 2011 6:43 pm
Washington D.C. voters approved a medical marijuana initiative in 1998. However, Congress hijacked the initiative for over a decade by attaching a provision to D.C. funding bills (i.e. if the District of Columbia implemented the voter-approved medical marijuana initiative, it would lose its funding).
Last summer marijuana for medicinal use became legal in Washington D.C at long last. Unfortunately, residents are still waiting for the program to take effect.
The District of Columbia Patients Cooperative (DCPC) – a non-profit formed “to provide high quality and affordable medical ‘marijuana’ to qualifying DC patients” – along with Americans for Safe Access will host a Town Hall meeting this Thursday, February 10 in order to help frustrated residents better understand D.C.’s medical cannabis program.
According to a DCPC board member, “We have been collecting questions about the medical marijuana program from the public and it’s clear there is a lot of confusion out there. We will cover different topics concerning how the patient registration process will work, as well as the rules surrounding the cultivation and dispensing of the medicine.”
Washington D.C. officials, including Mayor Vincent Gray, have been invited to attend the event and speak to patients. However, none have agreed to be present – including the author of the new medical marijuana law. A DCPC board member explained the frustration: “We’ve begged the city to speak to the community of patients here. It is as if the new administration thinks sick and dying patients can be ignored and treated like criminals for another year. The only thing criminal going on is that we have waited a year for this DC medical marijuana program to start.”














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gstlab3
Feb 21 2011, 1:39 am
PERIOD END OF STORY!!!!!!!!!
AMERICANS NEED TO PROTEST THE BANKRUPTING OF OUR COUNTRY AND THE TYRANY IN WASHINGTON D.C.!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU WANT FREEDOM???
DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!
SHUT THE GOVERNMENT DOWN!!!!!!
WORKERS OF ALL TRADES NEED TO GO ON STRIKE.
ALL STATE WORKERS WILL FOLLOW US WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TRIES TO CUT THEIR SALARIES AND BENIFITS!!!!!!!!
IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN BE READY FOR IT!!!!!
THEY HAVE NO MORE MONEY AND THE LENDERS "CHINA" ARE MAKING US CUT OUR COSTS TO GET MORE MONEY TO PAY THE GOVERNMENT THAT PAYS US!!!!!!!!
THIS WILL NOT STAND FOR LONG YOU BETTER REALIZE THIS!!!!! AMERICAN STATE AND FEDERAL WORKERS ARE MOSTLY SPOILED AND CODDLED LITTLE BRATS WHO WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH REAL WORK AND EFFORT ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY FIND OUT THEY ARE'NT GOING TO BE GETTING TWICE THE NATIOANL AVERAGE PAY ANYMORE!!!!!
IT'S OVER AMERICA!!!!
THE MONEY TRAIN HAS LEFT THE STATION WITHOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU BECAME COMPLACEANT AND LAZY IN PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS FROM THESE CRIMINALS IN YOUR GOVERNMENTS HOUSES.
THE TRUTH HURTS AND I'M HERE TO TELL YOU IT'S GOING TO GET WORSE., A LOT WORSE BEFORE WE CAN SOLVE THE CRIMES OF THE GOVERNMENT AND OUR OWN PEOPLE WHO HELPED IT HAPPEN.
COMMUNISM NEVER WENT ANYWHERE AND IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE THAT TRY AND STOP PAYING YOUR HOME PROPERTY TAX OR THE TAXES ON YOUR CAR OR TRUCK AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR SHIT!!!!
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!
Green Bud
Feb 17 2011, 7:19 am
Benevolent Smoker.
Feb 15 2011, 11:21 am
gstlab3
Feb 13 2011, 8:52 pm
CONGRESSMEN AND WOMEN WOULD VOTE TO CHANGE SHIT SO FUCKING FAST ONCE THESE GUYS GOT INVOLVED IT WOULD MAKE YOUR HEAD SPIN!!!!
A FEW DEAD POLITICIANS WOULD CLEAR THE AIR BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES AND ALL THAT PARTICAN BULLCRAP AND THE POLICE WOULD SEE THEIR DAYS BECOMING SHORTER TOO WHEN THE CARTELLS MOVE IN!!
WE CAN CHANGE THE COURSE WE'RE ON OR WE CAN SIT BACK AND WATCH THE THE THIRD WORLDS PROBLEMS AND CORRUPT BULLSHIT BE REBORN HERE IN THE GOOD OLD USA WITH CRIME LIKE MEXICO HAS RIGHT NOW BUT TIMES TEN!!!!!
WE HAVE TO DECIDE WHO THE FUCK RUNS THIS COUNTRY!!!!!
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!!!
gstlab3
Feb 13 2011, 8:45 pm
SIR PUFS A LOT IS ALSO AN INBREDREDNECKRETARD!!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
LOSER!!!!!!!!!!
FUCK YOU!!! YOU ANTI AMERICAN FREEDOM HATING BITCH!!!!!!!
Grazzy Nole
Feb 12 2011, 12:42 am
An "NO" they don't care about sick people, that's already been proven, cause if they cared more about them people, they wouldn't have time to make sure they get re-elected next term. What we need is a federal mandate issued to conform with the law or go to jail for "abstruction of justice". CAUSE THAT'S THE LAW! And now we need to make the law work for the common man. Plus: By not conforming with the law it's "counterproductive", just think of all the jobs that could be created if the federal government legalize MARIJUANA.
It's time to rally the troops and start the "Marijuaa Reform Act". If it's good enough for those 14 states that already have medical marijuana it should be good enough for the entire country to have legalized marijuana, so the government could tax it like beer, wine, and whiskey.
The government has wasted 40 years of our money and it's not done a-bit of good. PEOPLE STILL WANT THEIR "POT". So why not do the common sense thing and give the people what they want. Legalization would mean ever one gets something out of the process. People get their pot, and the tax payers get a better cash flow, everybody wins.
Greenfurn
Feb 10 2011, 7:22 pm
sir puff alot az
Feb 10 2011, 11:42 am
5TArtFrMsEed
Feb 10 2011, 8:35 am
GOOD LUCK D.C.
no problem
Feb 9 2011, 7:04 pm
kinder
Feb 9 2011, 3:06 pm
When people speak and those in power don't listen it's time for a change. At the HIGHEST of levels,and the MILKTOAST americans that we can be i,gotta ask are we really ready to make that change? The war on drugs is a joke
and always will be.And i ain't say'n americans are wimps
but we tend to have our heads up our asses when it comes to
telling the feds......out loud
......GET FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess we feel we have to much to loose.But you can't loose something you never had....E-G-Y-P-T. O.K. bring on the flack.
sir puff alot az
Feb 9 2011, 11:26 am
texas420southeast
Feb 9 2011, 10:40 am
Green Bud
Feb 9 2011, 12:08 am
gstlab3
Feb 8 2011, 9:27 pm
REALLY? 1998???
CONGRESS SUCKS ASS AND CAN SUCK MY BALLS!!!!!!!
gstlab3
Feb 8 2011, 9:24 pm
YOU ALL THIS IS STILL CRAP!!!!
WE ARE ALL BEING HIGH JACKED AND RIPPED OFF AT EVERY TURN BY THESE THIEVES AND CROOKS! CONGRESS MEN AND WOMEN INDEED!!!!!! THE CONGRESS AND THE PRESIDENT HIMSELF HAVE NO MORAL OR ANY OTHER AUTHORITY OVER THE PEOPLE.
WHAT RIGHT DO THEY HAVE DECIDING HOW YOU OR I SHOULD TREAT OUR AILMENTS AND OUR DISEASE AND DYING?!?
THE WHOLE FUCKING PROBLEM IS THE FACT WE ALLOW "THEM" THE GOVERNMENT LAWYERS AND PENCIL PUSHING BEUROCRATS TO TELL US WHAT WE CAN AND CANNOT DO IN THESE PERSONAL LIFE MATTERS TO BEGIN WITH!
IS'NT THAT OBVIOUS TO ALL OF YOU?!?!?"
THEY STALL US, THEY FINE US, TAX US, AND IMPRISON US FOR THIS MARIJUANA BULLSHIT WHEN IT IS THEY WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS SITTING ON THEIR FAT ASSES AND GETTING PAID FOR RUINING MY COUNTRY AND WASTING AND STEALING TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY DAY EVERY FUCKING DAMNED YEAR!!!
OH SURE ENOUGH THOSE COMMUNIST BASTARDS THEY HAVE AUTHORITY OVER ME.,ONLY WITH A HIRED POLICE PIG GUN POINTED AT MY HEAD THEY SURE DO AND AI'NT THAT A BITCH MOVE!!!!!!!????
YEAH IT IS AND I'M SICK OF IT.
FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND PROPERETY OWNERSHIP RIGHTS?!?!?
MY WHITE AMERICAN ASS!!!!!!!
FUCK THE FED!!!!
FUCK THE IRS!!!!!
aka., the secrete internal raping service"
FUCK THE POLICE STATE!!!!
FUCK THE PRESIDENT!!!!!!
FUCK THE CONGRESS!!!!
DO WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS RIGHT REGUARDLESS OF WHAT THESE DIRT BAG PLITICAINS TELL YOU AND DEMAND YOUR RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM ALL GOVERNMENT INTRUSION INTO YOUR HOMES AND INTO YOUR BODIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOVERNMENT CONTROL MEANS YOU HAVE NONE.
LIVE FREE OR DIE AMERICA!!!!!!
DO'NT LET THE TAX MAN STEAL YOUR COUNTRY HOME BY HOME BUISNESS BY BUISNESS TELL THEM TO STOP ROBBING YOU OF MOST OF YOUR HARD EARNED PAYCHECKS !!!!!
STOP THE INSANITY AMERICA!!!!
STOP YOUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENTS EVER INCREASING SIZE AND ITS EVER INCREASING POWER OVER YOUR LIVES!!!!!
FREEDOM IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT AND YOUR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY!!!
THESE ARE THE THINGS THE GOVERNMENT STEALS PIECE BY PIECE YEAR AFTER YEAR.
STOP THEM NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GROW YOUR OWN, FREE YOUR MIND, FREE THE PLANET!!!!!
MARIJUANA MARCH ON THE CAPITAL THIS SPRING!!!!!
4/20/2011 BE THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DEMAND THE RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM GOVERNMENT INSANITY AND TYRANY!!!!!!!!!
GOVERNMENT RUN ANYTHING IS A WASTE OF TAXPAYER MONEY.
WE DO'NT NEED TO GIVE THEM OUR MARIJUANA TO CONTROL ALSO., TO TAX OUT OF REACH FOR THE POOR PATIENTS WHO ARE THE PRIMARY REASON WE DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!
FUCK THE CONGRESS!!!!!
THEY HAVE NO SAY.
WE'RE DONE LISTENING TO DUMB ASSES AND THIEVES!!!!!
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