By "Radical" Russ Belville on March 3, 2009
Senate File 293
An Act creating the medical marijuana Act including the creation of compassion centers, and providing for civil and criminal penalties and fees.
All right, Iowans, it’s time to get on those phones and start calling your reps. (That sound you hear in the distance is Stasher RevRayGreen hootin’ and a-hollerin’) We’ll have an official NORML alert with the pre-written letter up at our Activists Alerts shortly.
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I am the host of the NORML SHOW LIVE and The NORML Stash Blog. I'm married, live in Portland, Oregon, and I am a registered medical marijuana caregiver in this state. I've worked days as an IT geek and nights as a professional musician. Previously, I have been the host of my own political talk radio show on satellite radio. I've been the High Times "Freedom Fighter of the Month" for my work producing Oregon NORML's TV show, "A Cannabis Community Forum", and for helping to institute Portland's wildly successful medical marijuana cardholders meetings, where we help sick and disabled Oregonians acquire cannabis plant starts, learn gardening, and understand the medical marijuana law. I've dedicated my life to bringing an end to adult marijuana prohibition and re-legalizing cannabis hemp, and I'm honored to be chosen by NORML to be our daily voice.
To whom it may concern. I want this here for public record. I am one of the original 5 children that the 1979 marijuana bill was written for and was written to protect these same five children for life. 2 of them died using the pill form. I know the other boy and I lived due to this prescription. I am unsure though if he is still alive today. We were cancer prone our bodies could not stop cancer production on it’s own. One of the cannabinoids was found to stop cancer production and in this first study they learned cannabis was a neuro protectant and antioxidant. I am in full support of this bill being expanded but demand to be grand fathered in under my current rights per the 1079 bill. What you are offering is less then we were protected for. This 1979 bill was to protect us for life not until you decided to rewrite it. I think it is wonderful Iowans are waking up to realize this is a viable treatment. I have been in cancer studies for over 30 years. When I was 14 my spleen was taken out due to cancer I really have no filtering system or immune system. However the cannabis replaced this on a constant basis and why I am still alive today. This is why I lived and Aids people die from just a weakened immune system. Should you change this bill and diminish my rights in anyway, you will force me to die, which this 1979 law protected from happening. I request any legislator who works on this topic to contact me via email to open a dialogue on this topic to ensure my rights are grand fathered and protected from change under the current bill, and the boy/man who may also still be alive to protect his rights at the same time. We had freedom which you are seeking to regulate. I at the same time will not give up my current rights so you can regulate others. This is sad to me that you would change the freedom that was given and realized at that time was necessary for those with cancer and so on to heal. I will fight this bill on all levels if I am not grand fathered in. I think it amazing you want to open it up to ensure others gain the same benefits however not at the risk of eliminating or regulating those who came before and this bill protected from such actions. I am in full support of the bill with a grandfather clause… DrRevLynn@aol.com
Morphine is legal for medical use but Marijuana is not????
Just home from work HYPED !!!!!!!!
Go get em Rev. Were pulling for ya and all Iowans….Russ, your right, I think I hear the Rev ‘ah-hollerin
i’ve been spreading the word and jousting the prohibitionists all morning. the prohibitionists are pissed! they have been calling our representatives and telling them to not support this bill. We need to drown out their feeble attempts to stop this bill. C’mon Iowa this is a call to arms. fight for your rights!