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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
California: How to get a medical marijuana permit August 9, 10:13 PM · Angela Macdonald - NORML Examiner The golden state offers medical marijuana...
California: How to get a medical marijuana permit
August 9, 10:13 PM · Angela Macdonald - NORML Examiner
The golden state offers medical marijuana protection
and safe access to medicine for thousands of citizens
(Google Images)
If you live in California and you are interested in a medical marijuana permit, you are one of the lucky in the United States. Your state offers plenty of dispensaries and medical marijuana clinics with compassionate doctors. You also live in the one state that allows medical marijuana use for certain mental illnesses.
The state of California medical marijuana program is administered by individual counties. Recently San Diego and San Bernardino counties were ordered to begin issuing medical marijuana I.D. cards. Not all counties have I.D. programs in place yet.
To obtain a medical marijuana permit you can visit one of many clinics in the state. Once you obtain your I.D. card you can visit various dispensaries, co-ops, caregivers, or you can grow your own medicine. Often times, the dispensary will give you an I.D. card specific to their dispensary. The state offers a verification program, where dispensaries can verify a patient’s I.D. card online.
For a list of qualifying conditions in California click here.
August 9, 10:13 PM · Angela Macdonald - NORML Examiner
The golden state offers medical marijuana protection
and safe access to medicine for thousands of citizens
(Google Images)
If you live in California and you are interested in a medical marijuana permit, you are one of the lucky in the United States. Your state offers plenty of dispensaries and medical marijuana clinics with compassionate doctors. You also live in the one state that allows medical marijuana use for certain mental illnesses.
The state of California medical marijuana program is administered by individual counties. Recently San Diego and San Bernardino counties were ordered to begin issuing medical marijuana I.D. cards. Not all counties have I.D. programs in place yet.
To obtain a medical marijuana permit you can visit one of many clinics in the state. Once you obtain your I.D. card you can visit various dispensaries, co-ops, caregivers, or you can grow your own medicine. Often times, the dispensary will give you an I.D. card specific to their dispensary. The state offers a verification program, where dispensaries can verify a patient’s I.D. card online.
For a list of qualifying conditions in California click here.
Monday, January 12, 2009
DON'T WASTE RESOURCES: ID PROGRAM IS OVERDUE
DON'T WASTE RESOURCES: ID PROGRAM IS OVERDUE
Newshawk: http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm
Pubdate: Mon, 12 Jan 2009
Source: Reporter, The (Vacaville, CA)
Copyright: 2009 The Reporter
Contact: letters@thereporter.com
Website: http://www.thereporter.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/472
Cited: Board of Supervisors http://www.co.solano.ca.us/depts/bos/default.asp
Cited: Health and Social Services Department http://www.co.solano.ca.us/depts/hss/default.asp
Cited: Americans for Safe Access http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Americans+for+Safe+Access
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Marijuana - Medicinal)
DON'T WASTE RESOURCES: ID PROGRAM IS OVERDUE
It is hard to believe that a county looking at all possible ways to cut expenses has resources to waste on a losing court battle, but that would seem to be the case in Solano County.
Last week, the Board of Supervisors and the Health and Social Services Department were sued because Solano continues to disregard a state law that requires counties to issue identification cards to patients whose physicians legitimately prescribe marijuana for a serious medical condition.
The law requiring counties to issue the cards was adopted by the Legislature in 2003 to clarify issues raised after voters approved Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. Some 55 percent of Solano County voters joined the majority of Californians in approving that initiative.
And yet Solano County has steadfastly refused to follow state law on the matter.
The last time Supervisors voted on the issue, in 2006, the sentiment was that the board should wait until a San Diego County lawsuit concerning the legality of the state law was settled.
As it turns out, San Diego, which also does not wish to issue the cards, lost its case. The Superior Court upheld the validity of state-issued medical marijuana cards and the state Appeals and Supreme courts declined to hear any appeal. The final rejection came in October.
In August and again in October, the plaintiffs in the newest lawsuit, Americans for Safe Access, formally asked Solano County to establish a medical marijuana ID program. The plea fell on deaf ears, so the organization turned to the courts.
It is hard to imagine that judges are going to find in Solano's favor, considering not only the recent Supreme Court action but also an opinion by Attorney General Jerry Brown and instructions by the state Department of Publish Health, both requiring counties to provide the cards.
But it is easy to imagine that the courts will order the county to pay the plaintiff's attorney fees.
More to the point, it is foolish for the county not to issue the cards, which are specifically designed to help law officers determine who has a legitimate prescription for medical marijuana and who doesn't.
Statewide, 41 counties now issue the cards. Six more -- including neighboring Sacramento and San Joaquin counties -- are expected to implement the ID program this fiscal year. Solano is among only 11 holdouts.
It should stop fighting a losing battle and issue the cards.
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Newshawk: http://www.drugsense.org/donate.htm
Pubdate: Mon, 12 Jan 2009
Source: Reporter, The (Vacaville, CA)
Copyright: 2009 The Reporter
Contact: letters@thereporter.com
Website: http://www.thereporter.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/472
Cited: Board of Supervisors http://www.co.solano.ca.us/depts/bos/default.asp
Cited: Health and Social Services Department http://www.co.solano.ca.us/depts/hss/default.asp
Cited: Americans for Safe Access http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/topic/Americans+for+Safe+Access
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mmj.htm (Marijuana - Medicinal)
DON'T WASTE RESOURCES: ID PROGRAM IS OVERDUE
It is hard to believe that a county looking at all possible ways to cut expenses has resources to waste on a losing court battle, but that would seem to be the case in Solano County.
Last week, the Board of Supervisors and the Health and Social Services Department were sued because Solano continues to disregard a state law that requires counties to issue identification cards to patients whose physicians legitimately prescribe marijuana for a serious medical condition.
The law requiring counties to issue the cards was adopted by the Legislature in 2003 to clarify issues raised after voters approved Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. Some 55 percent of Solano County voters joined the majority of Californians in approving that initiative.
And yet Solano County has steadfastly refused to follow state law on the matter.
The last time Supervisors voted on the issue, in 2006, the sentiment was that the board should wait until a San Diego County lawsuit concerning the legality of the state law was settled.
As it turns out, San Diego, which also does not wish to issue the cards, lost its case. The Superior Court upheld the validity of state-issued medical marijuana cards and the state Appeals and Supreme courts declined to hear any appeal. The final rejection came in October.
In August and again in October, the plaintiffs in the newest lawsuit, Americans for Safe Access, formally asked Solano County to establish a medical marijuana ID program. The plea fell on deaf ears, so the organization turned to the courts.
It is hard to imagine that judges are going to find in Solano's favor, considering not only the recent Supreme Court action but also an opinion by Attorney General Jerry Brown and instructions by the state Department of Publish Health, both requiring counties to provide the cards.
But it is easy to imagine that the courts will order the county to pay the plaintiff's attorney fees.
More to the point, it is foolish for the county not to issue the cards, which are specifically designed to help law officers determine who has a legitimate prescription for medical marijuana and who doesn't.
Statewide, 41 counties now issue the cards. Six more -- including neighboring Sacramento and San Joaquin counties -- are expected to implement the ID program this fiscal year. Solano is among only 11 holdouts.
It should stop fighting a losing battle and issue the cards.
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Friday, January 9, 2009
Solano County sued over pot ID cards Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Solano County sued over pot ID cards
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
(01-05) 16:03 PST FAIRFIELD --
A medical-marijuana advocacy group sued Solano County on Monday for its failure to issue identification cards to users of medicinal cannabis as required by state law.
The lawsuit, filed in Solano County Superior Court, said the county is among several in California that have failed to give out the cards, which protect their holders from arrest by state or local police for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
"Solano County cannot simply flout its obligation under the law," Joe Elford, an attorney for Americans for Safe Access, said in a statement.
The group sent letters to Solano County in August and October urging it to comply with the 2003 law requiring the marijuana ID card program, Elford said.
In July, a state court of appeal upheld California's medical marijuana law enacted in 1996, rejecting arguments by San Diego and San Bernardino counties that allowing patients to use the drug with their doctor's approval condoned violations of federal narcotics laws.
Of California's 58 counties, 51 comply with the ID card program, Elford said.
Jo Ann Parker, deputy Solano County counsel, said the county had not yet been served with the suit. But she noted that the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to discuss the ID card program in closed session Jan. 13.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/06/BAAO1541JK.DTL
This article appeared on page B - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
(01-05) 16:03 PST FAIRFIELD --
A medical-marijuana advocacy group sued Solano County on Monday for its failure to issue identification cards to users of medicinal cannabis as required by state law.
The lawsuit, filed in Solano County Superior Court, said the county is among several in California that have failed to give out the cards, which protect their holders from arrest by state or local police for possessing small amounts of marijuana.
"Solano County cannot simply flout its obligation under the law," Joe Elford, an attorney for Americans for Safe Access, said in a statement.
The group sent letters to Solano County in August and October urging it to comply with the 2003 law requiring the marijuana ID card program, Elford said.
In July, a state court of appeal upheld California's medical marijuana law enacted in 1996, rejecting arguments by San Diego and San Bernardino counties that allowing patients to use the drug with their doctor's approval condoned violations of federal narcotics laws.
Of California's 58 counties, 51 comply with the ID card program, Elford said.
Jo Ann Parker, deputy Solano County counsel, said the county had not yet been served with the suit. But she noted that the Board of Supervisors is scheduled to discuss the ID card program in closed session Jan. 13.
E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/06/BAAO1541JK.DTL
This article appeared on page B - 2 of the San Francisco Chronicle
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