Vitolo
Vaporist
MinnBobber...@Vitolo ,
WTF is happening in AZ????
I just saw an update with 53% against your cannabis prop
It's a crime that those anti mj ads with blatant lies were allowed to air---with statements like in CO, schools were not getting mj tax money as promised...... BS
Hope the vote turns around
I do not vote at all, and neither does Patty. I will not get into a discussion about it... it causes too much friction, but we have never voted, and still will not EVER vote.
Most AZ residents are against it, for various reasons. I do know why my Doctor (an MMJ Doctor) is against it.
This 1st one is not my Doctor..
If there are to many unanswered questions, if we are spending more time going HUH, WHAT, Does that say what I think it says... Then maybe just maybe we should take the time to write said law correctly. Clearly there is a huge community that is backing the legalization of cannabis, SO why not do it correctly the first time. I am all for the progression, but once this law is passed there is NO changing it. There is NO going forward. Lets be frank.. for those of us 'for cannibas', clearly NO laws have stopped us before, if we are adament about getting said cannibas. We've gotten it. So, waiting just a year longer or so, really isn't going to make or break us. WHAT is wrong with taking the time to do it RIGHT the FIRST FUCKING TIME!
I'm actually against this law... but not for the reasons that the ridiculous campaign ads talk about. I think this campaign will probably encourage many people to vote for it
My last (maybe) post on why I chose TO VOTE NO ON 205... again I'm not a lawyer and I'd like conversations to remain a little more intelligent then calling me (or anyone else) stupid - unless you back it up. And no... I'm not getting paid by anyone - especially discount tire!!! Cheers to getting out and voting tomorrow - vote educated!
VIRUTAL ELIMINATION OF FUTURE SMALL BUSINESS and FREE ENTERPRISE - Current dispensaries have paved and secured their green (Marijuana and $$) highway
Virtual Eliminate of Free Enterprise
There will be more jobs if prop 205 passes but there won’t be ANY new businesses until 2021. 2017-2021 all the licenses for recreational marijuana will solely be given to CURRENT medical marijuana dispensaries. In 2021 The Department of Marijuana licenses and Control may begin to accept new applications for marijuana establishments, but if they have greater applications than allowable, any application that is from a previous medical marijuana dispensary will be chosen first over any new folks that are competing for an application - this is forever.
Laws of licenses for cultivation are also skewed towards current medical marijuana dispensaries. It will be a tiered system. Only the highest tier, allowing UNLIMITED marijuana production, will be given to the current dispensaries - everyone else will have restrictions.
As physician and someone that believes in small business I will not support this. There are many talented people that didn’t have the $150,000, the luck of the lottery system to ‘win’ the opportunity of a medical marijuana dispensary, and people that aren’t even born yet that will have a major disadvantage in the future business of the marijuana industry. Simply because the laws strongly support the current dispensaries. Like any business dispensaries across the board vary in quality and service. This has been a great frustration. Lives have been saved and radically changed for the better with help from many dispensaries. There has also been situations where MEDICAL cannabis has contained mold, fungus, bugs, situations of poor information and people ripped off (80 year old woman with stage 3 lung cancer that bought $2100 of concentrated hemp oil believing it was a cancer cure comes to mind). Even if every current dispensary was perfect - they should not be immune to competition - immediately and the in future.
Competition will allow the best to rise to the top.
VIRUTAL ELIMINATION OF FUTURE SMALL BUSINESS and FREE ENTERPRISE - Current dispensaries have paved and secured their green (Marijuana and $$) highway
Virtual Eliminate of Free Enterprise
There will be more jobs if prop 205 passes but there won’t be ANY new businesses until 2021. 2017-2021 all the licenses for recreational marijuana will solely be given to CURRENT medical marijuana dispensaries. In 2021 The Department of Marijuana licenses and Control may begin to accept new applications for marijuana establishments, but if they have greater applications than allowable, any application that is from a previous medical marijuana dispensary will be chosen first over any new folks that are competing for an application - this is forever.
Laws of licenses for cultivation are also skewed towards current medical marijuana dispensaries. It will be a tiered system. Only the highest tier, allowing UNLIMITED marijuana production, will be given to the current dispensaries - everyone else will have restrictions.
As physician and someone that believes in small business I will not support this. There are many talented people that didn’t have the $150,000, the luck of the lottery system to ‘win’ the opportunity of a medical marijuana dispensary, and people that aren’t even born yet that will have a major disadvantage in the future business of the marijuana industry. Simply because the laws strongly support the current dispensaries. Like any business dispensaries across the board vary in quality and service. This has been a great frustration. Lives have been saved and radically changed for the better with help from many dispensaries. There has also been situations where MEDICAL cannabis has contained mold, fungus, bugs, situations of poor information and people ripped off (80 year old woman with stage 3 lung cancer that bought $2100 of concentrated hemp oil believing it was a cancer cure comes to mind). Even if every current dispensary was perfect - they should not be immune to competition - immediately and the in future.
Competition will allow the best to rise to the top.
Few last minute points on why I chose TO VOTE NO ON 205... again I'm not a lawyer and I'd like conversations to remain a little more intelligent then calling me (or anyone else) stupid - unless you back it up. And no... I'm not getting paid by anyone - especially discount tire!!! Cheers to getting out and voting tomorrow - vote educated!
IF PROP 205 IS LEGALIZING MARIJUANA THEN WHY DIVERT TAX DOLLARS FOR EDUCATION TO APPOINTING/PAYING A ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AND CREATING AN INTERNAL TASK FORCE??? WHY NOT LEAVE IT TO THE LOCAL POLICE?
The Department of Marijuana licenses and Control
These - are the folks that will be appointed by the Governor and will take over both the medical and recreational marijuana programs. They can amend any of the rules of the medical marijuana program and will take over all the monies. The governing board of this department will consist of the director and the marijuana commission - that consists of 7 members (4 of which have NO financial interest in any marijuana establishments and 3 that DO).The Governor will appoint an Enforcement Officer that will have “all the powers and duties of a peace officer” and create an internal task force for policing illegal activity. If this prop is the legalization of marijuana then why are we OK with creating more policing of marijuana activity? Why are individuals with financial ties to dispensaries allowed to make up almost 50% of the governing body? This is a frighting amount of control. Its too much overlap between the governing board, the making and the enforcement the rules and who they are governing and making the rules for.
IF PROP 205 IS LEGALIZING MARIJUANA THEN WHY DIVERT TAX DOLLARS FOR EDUCATION TO APPOINTING/PAYING A ENFORCEMENT OFFICER AND CREATING AN INTERNAL TASK FORCE??? WHY NOT LEAVE IT TO THE LOCAL POLICE?
The Department of Marijuana licenses and Control
These - are the folks that will be appointed by the Governor and will take over both the medical and recreational marijuana programs. They can amend any of the rules of the medical marijuana program and will take over all the monies. The governing board of this department will consist of the director and the marijuana commission - that consists of 7 members (4 of which have NO financial interest in any marijuana establishments and 3 that DO).The Governor will appoint an Enforcement Officer that will have “all the powers and duties of a peace officer” and create an internal task force for policing illegal activity. If this prop is the legalization of marijuana then why are we OK with creating more policing of marijuana activity? Why are individuals with financial ties to dispensaries allowed to make up almost 50% of the governing body? This is a frighting amount of control. Its too much overlap between the governing board, the making and the enforcement the rules and who they are governing and making the rules for.
I realize I may upset some FC members by my blatant admission of being a non-voter.
Voting is not my "right", or "privilege". It also is certainly not my "responsibility".
I stand by my right as an American to not watch TV news.. read newspapers, or vote.
I am 65 and have never watched TV news once.
I also have NEVER read one single newspaper.
This is my right as an American.
I maintain my right to not give a damn.
We are the elite among the politically apathetic.
Ronald Reagan was president for almost 3 years before I knew he was in office.
I was doorman at a bar, and a client said "Did you know President Reagan is in the Hospital?"
I said "who?"
they responded "Ronald Reagan is in the hospital."
I answered "You mean the actor?"
They were shocked.
I laughed.
I was doorman at a bar, and a client said "Did you know President Reagan is in the Hospital?"
I said "who?"
they responded "Ronald Reagan is in the hospital."
I answered "You mean the actor?"
They were shocked.
I laughed.
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