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Green Leaf <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
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What’s Inside,<br />
Strain Reviews: Ace High and Tomahawk by Green Point Seeds 6<br />
Visionary Healing 9<br />
Goldman Saacks: Patients to Protest Dispensary Opening 14<br />
Galaxy Gnail Review 17<br />
The Green Mile 20<br />
The Emerald Cup 24<br />
Rolling Debate 26<br />
We Could Lose This 36<br />
Cannaball Event 39<br />
Mass State House Smoke Signals 42<br />
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Strain Review<br />
Strain Name:<br />
Ace High<br />
Genetic Lineage:<br />
Ohio Lemon G x<br />
Star Dawg<br />
Sex: Regular<br />
Type:<br />
Mostly Sativa<br />
Flowering:<br />
63 - 77 Days<br />
Height:<br />
Medium-Tall<br />
Area:<br />
Indoor & Outdoor<br />
Ace High<br />
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When you think of Ohio, whats the 1st thing to come to mind? Does cannabis come to mind? Well you should of your looking at this<br />
strain! Lemon G is one of the most famous strains out of The Mid-West along with the “Death Star” (Sensi Star x Sour Diesel) and Indiana<br />
Bubble Gum. This Lemon G strain should be renamed “Consuela” from Family Guy because the smell and taste is Lemon Pledge all the<br />
way! This is definitely the strain for all those Lemon Terpene lovers out there. Not many people have the cut, and wasn’t circulated at all<br />
really. Lemon G was hoarded by whoever had it at the time. It was a heavily guarded, well sought out strain from most people wanted at<br />
time. According to Archive Seed Bank, apparently there are 2 different cuts of Lemon G floating around. The widely circulated one is the<br />
Sativa version, which supposedly is Skunk Misty x Indica Lemon G. The growth structure of the Lemon G are incredible. Tall, stretchy, and<br />
massive looking buds, but the flowers grow pretty airy, making it look like more than it is. The growth structure of this strain isn’t why it<br />
is so popular. It’s the aroma and flavor. The smell coming off this is INCREDIBLY LOUD! Incredibly reminiscent of Lemon Pledge, and<br />
Lemon Heads Candy, with slight hints of Lemongrass, and Lemon Peels. Its an incredible Lemon overload! For concentrates, if you like the<br />
citrus terpene profile, you’ll be doing back flips for this. Because the Lemon G is incredibly dominant, if it were to be used for concentrates,<br />
alone, Lemon G is almost too overpowering. Some people mix about 10% Lemon G with other flavors, just so the lemons wont drownedout<br />
the other flavors present in the concentrate. The effect of the Lemon G are very sativa-esque. Happy, clear-headed, focused, creative, and<br />
energetic, but not too Sativa for all those people who don’t like the paranoia, racy, speedy, borderline psychedelic strains.<br />
When Lemon G meets Star Dawg, expect to find some impeccable phenotypes that will be hard to narrow down. The Star Dawg would<br />
fill out those loose buds on the Lemon G making them tight, but keep an eye on certain phenotypes that will want to keep stretching. It<br />
will also give the Lemon G-dominant phenotypes an acrid, sharp, pungent chemical cleaner aroma that should blend well. Make sure you<br />
use all of your super cropping techniques and definitely use a trellis to maximize on the space you have. Smell and taste should range from<br />
astringent, acrid, lemon chemical cleaner, nail polish, paint thinner, and yellow sharpie markers. You will have fun watching these grow,<br />
and watching how different some can be. The Lemon G might dominate most phenotypes, since sativa traits come through more than the<br />
Indica does in the hybrid strains, so if you find a Star Dawg-Dominant phenotype, Keep her around! The males from this cross should be<br />
worth looking into as well, so if you find a good male, try and keep it or collect pollen for future projects<br />
@T_H_Caeczar_
Strain Review<br />
Strain Name:<br />
Tomahawk from Green Point Seeds<br />
Tomahawk<br />
Genetic Lineage:<br />
Gorilla Glue #4 x Star Dawg. {(Sour Dubble<br />
x Chem Sis) x Chocolate Diesel} x (Chem 4<br />
x Tres Dawg)<br />
Sex: Regular<br />
Type:<br />
Mostly Sativa<br />
Flowering:<br />
63 - 77 Days<br />
Height:<br />
Medium-Tall<br />
Area:<br />
Indoor & Outdoor<br />
Get ready to be the most popular kid on the block all over again! With this cross<br />
of Gorilla Glue #4 from Josey Wales, to this Male Stardawg, there are sure to be<br />
many phenotypes worth keeping, depending if your leaning more towards GG4<br />
or Star Dawg. Gorilla Glue # 4 is a cross of {(Sour Dubble x Chem Sis) x Chocolate<br />
Diesel}. Superb resin content, and spectacular bag appeal. When she’s grown<br />
well and trimmed nicely, it looks like it was rolled in sugar! So many visible<br />
cloudy trichome heads that are sticky to the touch, hence her name. Her terpene profile is incredible as well. If I were to describe the GG4 aroma, it<br />
would have to down the lines of Soap/Detergent/Piney/Chem/Cocoa Butter. Slight nose tingle upon getting a big whiff. The room reeks of nothing but<br />
skunky weed when you crack open the jar. The flavor of Gorilla Glue is incredible. Rich/Creamy/Chem/Cacao with a slight hint of some diesel coming<br />
through on the back end. Alone, Gorilla Glue #4 test incredibly high in THC too. Might be a “1-Hitter Quitter” for the occasional cannabis consumer.<br />
She can easily reach 24%-32%THC as seen on @GGStrains and @RB26CA Instagram page. Gorilla Glue #4 definitely lives up to the hype it has<br />
received over the past 2 years. If you let her do what she wants, she will give you everything you want. Look, smell, taste, effect, and yield from both<br />
the flowers and the oil. If you like making extracts, this will be something you always want to run. With no less than 20% returns, It will definitely be<br />
worth your time for sure. She is a well rounded strain that belongs in every garden. This strain will be sure to replace some of those old OG strains that<br />
are getting played out everywhere<br />
It your a fan of the Sour Diesel or Chemdog Terpene profile, you’ll love what the Stardawg Male does to the Gorilla Glue #4. The aroma, flavor, and<br />
effect all homogenize well together as if these two strains were meant to be together. An exquisite representation of these two powerhouse strains<br />
clashing together to make this one prestigious strain. The all-around, great tasting, dank smelling, heavy-hitting Gorilla Glue #4 crossed to the Legendary<br />
Chem 4-Dominant Star Dawg, give the Tomahawk some large-yielding buds with less internode spacing than just Gorilla Glue #4. It will also<br />
produce a remarkable terpene profile all on the heavy, dank, putrid, pungent side of the spectrum. You definitely will need a good carbon filter for<br />
this strain because of how much this plant will smell before, during, and after harvest. You can expect the aroma and flavor to range anywhere from<br />
Gasoline/ Oil Spill/ Kerosene/ Diesel/ Petrol/ Acetone/ Bleach/ Ajax/ Under-The-Sink Chemicals to Halitosis/ Morning Breath/ Decay/ Dry Socket<br />
with slight hints of vinegar. They all sound like offensive, foul odors, but when it comes to cannabis giving off those specific aromas, products like this<br />
move QUICK! Most phenotypes will most likely finish around week 9, some might even go longer to about week 10, some even to week 11 due to the<br />
amount of Sativa that is in her. BE PATIENT! Let her go as long as she can to get the maximum potential from the Tomahawk. Sour Diesel, Chemdog,<br />
and Gorilla Glue fans should all rejoice, because when this comes around, we all will have a new favorite to brag about! Tomahawk!<br />
@T_H_Caeczar_<br />
J7
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Visionary Healing<br />
by Eddie Funxta<br />
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Visionary Healing<br />
I want to give a little background into the root of my work, as it explains the direction that I aim for… Health. I’ve been a medical cannabis<br />
breeder since the early 2000’s in Southern California. Helping people with many devastating diseases and ailments such as AIDS, Cancers,<br />
Epilepsy, Schizophrenia, Multiple Sclerosis, and Wasting Syndrome. To chronic illnesses like back pain, migraine headaches, hemorrhoids to<br />
ulcers. Understanding how cannabis helped decrease the burden of their symptoms, if not cure them and give them back a quality of life we all<br />
seek. I looked into more plant research and human health. Always believing in ancient medicines and spiritual shamans. I felt the information<br />
following and calling me. Nowadays, My steps from helping the sick, have turned into helping people from Getting sick! Cannabis was<br />
just a tool in the arsenal that mother nature has gifted us with understanding, with years of research. Now I stumble upon centuries old knowledge<br />
of a magical medicinal healer in the forests all over the world known as “The Mushroom of Immortality” or Reishi Mushroom (Ganoderma<br />
Lucidium). Reishi Mushroom is a polypore or “Conk” type mushroom growing off of rotting hard woods. Research keeps stacking up on the<br />
benefits that this fungi carries. First and foremost its a cancer and tumor killer! Prominent in Ovarian Cancer Research, a Natural Killer Cell and<br />
Lymphocyte Cell builder and supporter. These cells kill off bad cells that feed and build ailments and disorders in our bodies.<br />
What about chronic illnesses that hinder our daily lives? Reishi Mushroom treats, if not helps cure, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), Viral infections<br />
such as Influenza, Swine Flu and Avian Flu. Reishi’s a powerful Respiratory healer, helping Lung problems such as Bronchitis to Asthma.<br />
Reishi also helps with treating Insomnia, High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol. It’s a Heart health helper thats for sure! Research has<br />
shown that healthy oxygen uptake leads to proper cell replication and smoother blood flow, leading to less ailments.<br />
Adding Cannabis to Reishi extracts was a no brainer in my work. Making special custom recipes per patient has really showed me the<br />
power of natural healing! Organic Mushrooms and Organic Cannabis… My belief to future healing of our planet and her beings!<br />
I’m going to touch on a few other medicines that I truly believe in. Provocative to say the least, but extremely helpful in todays world of mind<br />
tyranny, and societal stresses. These diverse compounds and chemicals are known as Tryptamines, Psychedelics, and/or Entheogens. Many can<br />
be grown, known as “Teacher Plants” that have been documented for centuries. Shamans and Ancient Civilizations believed in these “visions”<br />
sent from other worlds, as information to help mankind.<br />
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landscaped into our yards. Dimethryltryptamine or DMT is found in ALL living things. Known as “The Spirit Molecule” colliding<br />
spirituality and science together. Brewed as tea in the jungles of Peru, mixing the bark of a tree and the leaves of another to make Ayahuasca.<br />
This powerful antidote has cured many ailments such as PTSD, Alcoholism and nicotine dependency. Thats the just the noticeable part, fixing<br />
their all around spiritual outlook is unmeasurable. Their feelings of compassion and love for themselves and everything around them<br />
can only be explained as, a warm embrace of Mother (earth). 5-MeO-DMT extracted from the Sonoran Desert’s Bufo Alvarius Toad, is the most<br />
powerful entheogen documented. 5-MeO-DMT is produced in our Pineal Gland, which is believed to be where melatonin is<br />
produced to induce sleep and our natural knowledge of seasons. It is released during traumatic near death experiences, and at death. This chemical<br />
is released in our brain and sends us into the after life. The Bufo Alvarius Toad has venom glands located on its neck and shoulders. When<br />
squeezed, a white milky substance is harvested and dried which can be vaporized or smoked. My experience can be easily<br />
explained as 50 thousand hours of therapy in 20 minutes! 5-MeO-DMT almost replicates serotonin, the happy chemical in the body, meaning it<br />
absorbs relatively fast into the body with little to no residual effects. I work with Dr. Gerardo Isaac M.D. OB/GYN of the Bufo Alvarius<br />
Foundation in Quintana Roo, Mexico. My Shaman. He has helped me with many tools for understanding in my work in the healing of myself<br />
and others.<br />
Cannabis, Mushrooms and Herbs for the body. Bringing in Tryptamines and Visionary Entheogens along with a healthy counseling of<br />
understanding to heal the mind. Psychedelics are in the early steps of legalization, just as cannabis was when I was a teenager. I know this is the<br />
future of mental medicine… from the past!!<br />
I’m Eddie Funxta…Thank You For Your Mind!<br />
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GOLDMAN SACKS<br />
Patients to Protest Dispensary Opening<br />
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Mike Crawford is a medical marijuana patient, the host of<br />
“The Young Jurks” on WEMF Radio, and the author of the weekly<br />
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Medical marijuana patients in Massachusetts have fought for<br />
years for more cannabis dispensaries. Though voters approved<br />
such facilities in 2012, there are still less than half-a-dozen statewide.<br />
But when the long-awaited Patriot Care opens for business<br />
in Lowell this week, the occasion will be met with protest.<br />
For relevant intents and purposes, this leg of dispensary-related<br />
dissent in the Bay State broke out last month after Adam Vaccaro<br />
of Boston.com published an article titled, “Medical marijuana<br />
lobbyist to oppose pot legalization push.” The piece revealed that<br />
a hired gun named Daniel Delaney, who is registered with the<br />
Commonwealth to represent the interests of three Patriot Care<br />
dispensaries (one of which is in Boston), started a campaign<br />
called Safe Cannabis Massachusetts to oppose the Campaign to<br />
Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol initiative that will appear on<br />
the ballot in November.<br />
A DPH-registered nonprofit expecting to open three locations<br />
in Massachusetts, Patriot Care is owned by Columbia Care, an<br />
industry behemoth that boasts “leadership … from renowned<br />
businesses and organizations including Goldman Sachs, Staples,<br />
PepsiCo, and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institutes.” Led by former<br />
Goldman investment bankers, the company operates more than<br />
a dozen medical marijuana dispensaries in five states besides the<br />
Commonwealth.<br />
In speaking to Boston.com, Patriot Care spokesperson Dennis<br />
Kunian praised Delaney while denying that the dispensary is<br />
involved with the anti-legalization campaign. “He’s doing this<br />
independently of us,” said Kunian of lobbying efforts. “Although,<br />
if he’s doing it, he’s pretty darn smart, and it’s something we’re<br />
going to be taking a look at.”<br />
In any case, public records for the Safe Cannabis website show<br />
that yet another Patriot Care contractor is tied to the anti-legalization<br />
campaign as well. The domain is registered to Greg<br />
Czarnowski, whose name recently appeared in my email inbox<br />
with an invite, on behalf of Kunian, to the Patriot Care grand<br />
opening this week. Asked about this coincidence, Kunian replied<br />
in an email:<br />
Greg is an outsourced contractor working for me on a number<br />
of events for both Columbia Care and Patriot Care among other<br />
things that he does for me … He is a terrific web designer and<br />
3 years ago I introduced him to Dan Delaney who has been our<br />
lobbyist in Ma. since the very start. We are not involved in any<br />
of Dan’s other activities, other than his work for Patriot Care.<br />
We have not donated to Dan’s drive to oppose the Ballot issue as<br />
it is written, nor will we donate in the future. As hard as people<br />
in the recreational area have tried, they will find no link between<br />
what Dan is doing for Patriot Care other than helping us<br />
get open in Mass.<br />
Kunian assures that his company has “no voice in the recreational<br />
issue positive or negative and will always continue to<br />
stay our own course.” Delaney claims the same, saying that<br />
Czarnowski designed the anti-legalization campaign website,<br />
but he says those jobs are independent of any work for Patriot<br />
Care.<br />
“This CRMLA Initiative is MPP (Marijuana Policy Project),<br />
Washington, DC boilerplate that did not consult all of the stakeholders<br />
in the Commonwealth such as law enforcement, municipal<br />
groups, and property owners,” Delaney says regarding<br />
his rationale for creating the opposition campaign. Delaney says<br />
he’s seeking input from all stakeholders, including anti-marijuana<br />
Mayor Marty Walsh as well as those in the medical marijua<br />
na community, and expects that it will take $2,000,000 to defeat<br />
the current legalization initiative.<br />
CRMLA political director Will Luzier says the Bay State initiative<br />
is an improvement over legalization in Colorado, which<br />
is being held up as a failed experiment by the likes of Delaney.<br />
Among other differences, Luzier says cannabis in Massachusetts<br />
will be taxed at lower rates in order to cut deep into the black<br />
market. On the other side of the argument, Delaney doesn’t<br />
like that the CRMLA proposal allows for adults to grow up to<br />
six plants per person or a dozen per household, with only civil<br />
penalties for anyone caught with up to double that amount.<br />
“Even for medical marijuana,” says Delaney, “I think you would<br />
be hard-pressed to find many medical patients needing to grow<br />
24 plants.”<br />
Many medical cannabis patients are supporting CRMLA so that<br />
they can grow their personal supply without permits or licensing.<br />
Bill Downing, a controversial caregiver who provides medical<br />
marijuana outside the dispensary system and is currently<br />
facing heat from the Suffolk County District Attorney, wrote<br />
in an email to other local activists, “Patriot Care’s support of<br />
Delaney and potential support of his effort to stop legalization<br />
could have a terrible cost. Many cannabis activists and patient<br />
advocates understand, as I do, that cannabis regulation has great<br />
advantages for patients.”<br />
In response to news that the same people advocating for Patriot<br />
Care are pushing against legalization, CRMLA supporters are<br />
planning a protest outside Patriot Care in Lowell on Tuesday.<br />
Quite the optics there, patients picketing the same dispensary<br />
they backed through the approval process. Delaney isn’t worried,<br />
and denies that he is helping to protect regional dispensary<br />
monopolies; the lobbyist says there’s no good reason for him<br />
to oppose the CRMLA, because if passed, the initiative could<br />
potentially create even more work for consultants like him.<br />
While Delaney will make bank either way, it’s easy to see why<br />
the Patriot Care poobahs who pay him may be concerned. In<br />
Boston, for example, the company stands to dominate virtually<br />
all of downtown — especially if zoning measures recently proposed<br />
by City Councilor-at-Large Michael Flaherty take hold.<br />
Rooted in an unsubstantiated reefer madness and irrational fear<br />
of pot shops popping up on every corner, according to what<br />
Flaherty told reporters, his arbitrary rule would “literally protect<br />
the West End, North End, Downtown, Beacon Hill and some<br />
other neighborhoods from getting another [dispensary].”<br />
All while protecting the interests of Patriot Care and limiting<br />
future access for patients.<br />
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Galaxy Enails Review<br />
By Wayne Burrini<br />
So, it is <strong>2016</strong> and you are no longer a virgin to concentrates. By now you know there<br />
are a few things needed in your dab dojo, your dab station, in order to become a<br />
seasoned dabber: A rig, a fancy name for a bong that converts, rig, if you will, to start<br />
using concentrates. A nail, a heating element that allows one to vaporize cannabis<br />
concentrates. Most nails are made from glass, quartz, titanium, or ceramic. A dabber,<br />
a tool used to scrape the concentrate onto the nail. A launch pad, similar to a mouse<br />
pad, helps keep the rig from moving. A torch, although I suggest you skip this step and<br />
go straight to an e-nail, an electric nail! An e-nail is one of the ways to make vaping<br />
cannabis concentrates romantic. How so? Firstly, you don’t look like a crack head<br />
using the torch. Instead, your nail is set to the desired temperature and is ready to use<br />
when you are. It will no longer take 30 seconds to light the torch and get the nail to the<br />
perfect temperature for each dab.<br />
There are many brands and types of e-nails. We will be reviewing the Galaxy-Enails,<br />
specifically their “red” package kit. The Galaxy-Enail utilizes state of the art manufacturing<br />
processes providing you with the ONLY Quartz Infused Ceramic Dish and an<br />
all Ceramic Air Pathway.<br />
Each Kit Includes:<br />
One Stainless Steel Enail with Red Ceramic Overlay<br />
One Enail with Quartz Dish<br />
One Ceramic Carb cap<br />
One Ceramic 14/18mm Female adapter<br />
One Ceramic 14mm Male adapter<br />
One Ceramic 18mm Male adapter<br />
One Dab Tool<br />
One LaunchPad with power cord<br />
It is easy to clean!<br />
Automatic shut off after 90 minutes of use!<br />
A three year warranty against manufacturer defects!<br />
Galaxy-Enails is a small West Coast Company that prides itself on making products<br />
from suppliers only in the USA, providing a one of a kind customer service experience<br />
and making products that allows their customers to experience a Journey that will<br />
allow them to Taste their Concentrates the Way Nature Intended.<br />
All that needs to be done is set the Galaxy Enail up to your rig and hit the power<br />
button. Within five minutes your desired temperature will be set and you will be ready<br />
to dab! Now, I have heard all kinds of crazy temperatures people like to dab their medicine<br />
on. Many people prefer different temperatures on different nails. I feel ceramic is<br />
the better nail to use in order to truly taste your concentrate. I have heard as low as 500<br />
all the way up to 710. I personally enjoy 620-640.<br />
More importantly, Galaxy Enails have won me over. The taste of the concentrates are<br />
amplified using the Galaxy Enail and one can truly taste the flavor of the concentrates.<br />
It is a much cleaner taste, so much so I will not use a titanium nail again. The ceramic<br />
doesn’t expand when heated, unlike titanium and most other nails. What I can tell you<br />
is, if you get a Galaxy Enail you are about to consume copious amounts of concentrates!<br />
If you don’t have an e-nail or would like a quality e-nail, it is time. Throw away<br />
your torches, go to GalaxyEnails.com, order your Galaxy Enail, start enjoying and<br />
tasting your terps!<br />
J17
The Green Mile.<br />
Whether due to campaign contributions or pure ignorance, Boston City Councilors restrict patient access and claim otherwise.<br />
BY<br />
MIKE CRAWFORD<br />
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ANDY GAUS<br />
A few weeks ago, on the Boston.com<br />
Morning Show with Kim Carrigan<br />
on WRKO, Boston City Councilor<br />
Tito Jackson was asked by a listener,<br />
“Will you oppose the proposal for a<br />
Boston medical marijuana ban on<br />
new dispensaries within one mile of<br />
an existing zoned site?” The conversation<br />
led to Jackson saying that<br />
some patients are still having difficulty<br />
gaining access to cannabis as a<br />
result of high cost and low accessibility.<br />
The councilor wasn’t sure about<br />
how he would ultimately vote on the<br />
issue, but seemed to understand that<br />
the proposal on the table would hurt<br />
patients.<br />
Others have expressed far less enlightened<br />
viewpoints.<br />
Later the same day, the City Council<br />
considered the zoning proposal,<br />
formally introduced by Councilor<br />
Michael Flaherty, which seeks to<br />
keep new medical facilities — or<br />
future retail stores if marijuana is<br />
legalized through a ballot initiative<br />
in November — from opening within<br />
one mile of an existing dispensary. It<br />
was the first round in the latest series<br />
of clueless Council maneuvers to pit<br />
medical outfits against recreational<br />
shops, precipitating the now-infamous<br />
anti-pot op-ed in the Boston<br />
Globe by Mayor Marty Walsh, Gov<br />
Charlie Baker, and Attorney General<br />
Maura Healey. With some members<br />
expressing concerns and saying they<br />
needed more information, the issue<br />
was delegated to a newly formed<br />
working group set to meet at a later<br />
date.<br />
The ordeal resumed in the Council<br />
chamber on Tuesday, March 1. Since<br />
Flaherty’s amendment to the Boston<br />
Zoning Code was already the subject<br />
of a prior hearing, last week’s<br />
meeting was open to the public but<br />
without an opportunity for people<br />
to offer testimony. On the surface,<br />
that seemed understandable — lord<br />
knows testimony can drag on — but it<br />
made for some frustration. Councilors<br />
conceded that they have no idea<br />
what’s going to be in this upcoming<br />
recreational marijuana initiative.<br />
Meanwhile, marijuana advocates like<br />
Nichole Snow of the Massachusetts<br />
Patient Advocacy Alliance and Will<br />
Luzier of the Campaign to Regulate<br />
Marijuana Like Alcohol, both of<br />
whom know a considerable amount<br />
about the move in play, sat in polite<br />
silence.<br />
This while<br />
councilors<br />
demonstrated<br />
how<br />
much<br />
information<br />
they<br />
lacked<br />
and cited<br />
outdated regulations about dispensary<br />
placement that were changed<br />
months ago by the Department of<br />
Public Health.<br />
Councilor Sal LaMattina of East Boston<br />
urged caution. “The sky hasn’t<br />
fallen in Colorado,” he said, presenting<br />
a chart showing just how restrictive<br />
a mile radius would be in most<br />
parts of the Hub. Likewise, speaking<br />
with audience members after the<br />
meeting, Councilor Mark Ciommo<br />
of Allston-Brighton suggested that it<br />
was, on the whole, time for marijuana<br />
to be legal and regulated.<br />
Overall, none of the councilors expressed<br />
righteous horror at the prospect<br />
of legal recreational marijuana.<br />
Nevertheless, most seemed chiefly<br />
concerned about imaginary threats<br />
posed to residential areas. “I’m not<br />
trying to keep people from smoking<br />
marijuana,” Councilor Frank Baker<br />
of Dorchester said. “I just want to<br />
add an extra layer of protection for<br />
the neighborhoods … It should be<br />
difficult to open a pot shop. If it’s<br />
easy, we’ll have them all over the<br />
place.”<br />
And then there was Flaherty, who<br />
claimed that some mom-and-pop retail<br />
stores in Colorado — hair salons,<br />
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been displaced by pot shops that pay<br />
exorbitant rents. The chief intention<br />
of his amendment, the councilor<br />
from South Boston explained, was<br />
to avoid creating a stoner version of<br />
the old Combat Zone. Flaherty also<br />
argued that forcing marijuana retail<br />
outlets (medicinal or potentially<br />
recreational) to spread out would increase<br />
access by ensuring that outlets<br />
would be spread out across the city.<br />
“When this passes — and I don’t think<br />
there’s anyone in this room who<br />
thinks it isn’t going to pass — the action<br />
will be fast and furious,” Flaherty<br />
said. Bracing the body for a vote on<br />
his amendment the following day, the<br />
councilor put forth the notion that<br />
his measure was the only thing keeping<br />
residential blocks from turning<br />
into Red Light districts overnight.<br />
All 13 councilors were present for the<br />
one-mile vote on March 2. Flaherty<br />
announced that after speaking with<br />
some stakeholders and in order to<br />
quell skeptical colleagues, he decided<br />
to adjust the amendment back to a<br />
half-mile. Then Flaherty repeated his<br />
theatrics. “We know this is going to<br />
pass. There will be a mad dash once<br />
that happens … I don’t want to have<br />
another Combat Zone.”<br />
chusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance<br />
filed an open meeting complaint<br />
against Linehan with the office of the<br />
Commonwealth attorney general. In<br />
the complaint it alleges:<br />
The open meeting rules were violated<br />
when the Boston City Council<br />
moved the zoning amendment 0271<br />
to a vote during the meeting, and the<br />
resulting vote therefore cannot stand.<br />
Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance<br />
believes that these open meeting<br />
law violations were intentional.<br />
The City Council was aware since at<br />
least Friday, February 26, Massachusetts-based<br />
cannabis advocate and a<br />
member of MassCann-NORML<br />
<strong>2016</strong> that MPAA was opposing this<br />
zoning amendment. We were denied<br />
the ability to speak or participate in<br />
the political process on several occasions<br />
even after explaining that we<br />
were the primary stakeholder.<br />
turned to the Massachusetts Office<br />
of Campaign and Political Finance<br />
(OCPF).<br />
As it turns out, all the councilors who<br />
received contributions from people<br />
affiliated with Patriot Care, which<br />
currently has three locations planned<br />
for the Commonwealth, voted for<br />
the measure, which will seemingly<br />
benefit the medical dispensary by<br />
drawing a half-mile No Competition<br />
Zone around its coming Milk Street<br />
location in downtown Boston. It’s become<br />
apparent over the past couple<br />
of weeks that Patriot Care is fighting<br />
to put competition at a disadvantage.<br />
According to OCPF records, the<br />
councilors who collected the most<br />
contributions from Patriot Care<br />
are the same ones who introduced<br />
zoning that will ostensibly benefit the<br />
enterprise.<br />
With a vote looming, we attempted<br />
With the half-mile amendment put<br />
to a vote, Downtown Councilor Josh<br />
Zakim told the group that he wasn’t<br />
trying to deny marijuana to anyone.<br />
He called medical marijuana “necessary<br />
and important,” and put forth<br />
the argument that forcing dispensaries<br />
to be apart from each other<br />
would ensure that various parts of<br />
the city are served. Eventually, the<br />
amendment passed, with only Campbell,<br />
Ciommo, and Pressley voting in<br />
the negative.<br />
Following the hearing, the Massa-<br />
The MPAA complaint also noted that<br />
Flaherty’s “amendment was created<br />
based upon misinformation presented<br />
by the creator and predicated on<br />
incorrect and outdated information.”<br />
Whether the meeting was legal or<br />
not, one has to wonder why councilors<br />
would deny stakeholders a chance<br />
to testify. Looking for answers, we<br />
to contact the officials who received<br />
campaign contributions from individuals<br />
associated with Patriot Care.<br />
Councilors Zakim, Matt O’Malley,<br />
and Baker, as well as Boston Mayor<br />
Walsh — each of whom received<br />
between $150 and $300 — did not respond<br />
to our requests for comment.<br />
Councilor Flaherty, who reported the<br />
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most Patriot Care-related contributions<br />
for a total of $850, did<br />
respond, but rejected the notion his<br />
zoning proposal was made as the<br />
result of any donations. In a phone<br />
interview, Flaherty suggested that<br />
his having 4,000 donors proves that<br />
no single contribution — or in this<br />
case, four donations — could sway<br />
him.<br />
“I would note that I did not support<br />
Patriot Care in their zoning appeal<br />
on Milk Street,” Flaherty added. “If<br />
I could be swayed by a donation,<br />
why didn’t I support them then? I<br />
chose to side with the neighborhood<br />
opposition, if you remember, and<br />
money had nothing to do with my<br />
actions in regards to this zoning<br />
proposal.”<br />
I also reached out to Patriot Care<br />
spokesman Dennis Kunian for<br />
comment. He said his group had no<br />
position on the zoning amendment,<br />
and added that Flaherty “came up<br />
with [the proposal] on his own.”<br />
“My wife or I contributed to Councilor<br />
Flaherty,” Kunian wrote in an<br />
email. “We also gave to many other<br />
councilors, city, state, and national<br />
figures along with a number of<br />
causes.”<br />
Lewis, who are overseeing a special<br />
committee on legalization that<br />
just released a controversial report<br />
warning against the pending voter<br />
initiative.<br />
For those trying to protect their<br />
businesses from competition,<br />
it’s seemingly money well spent.<br />
Whether the impediment is stemming<br />
from campaign contributions<br />
or pure ignorance, Massachusetts<br />
politicians seem more interested in<br />
passing additional restrictions than<br />
they are in increasing access for<br />
patients.<br />
Mike Crawford is a medical<br />
marijuana patient, the host of “The<br />
Young Jurks” on WEMF Radio, and<br />
the author of the weekly column<br />
The Tokin’ Truth, which is produced<br />
in coordination with the Boston<br />
Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.<br />
Andy Gaus is a Massachusetts-based<br />
cannabis advocate and a member of<br />
MassCann-NORML.<br />
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Which brings up a good point about<br />
how much influence dispensaries<br />
are peddling statewide. This isn’t<br />
just a Boston issue. As the inevitable<br />
medical vs. legal battle warms up<br />
in the Bay State, it’s important to<br />
keep in mind that people affiliated<br />
with groups like Patriot Care have<br />
donated to the campaigns of officials<br />
including Sens Vinny deMacedo<br />
and Brian Joyce, Attorney General<br />
Maura Healey, and House Speaker<br />
Robert DeLeo — all of whom oppose<br />
legalization. Also on the receiving<br />
end of such contributions are state<br />
Sens Stanley Rosenberg and Jason
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by Chris Foye<br />
Every person that has ever taken up<br />
the mantel of activist in the United<br />
States has envisioned themselves at<br />
one time or another taking the fight<br />
of reform to our nation’s Capital,<br />
Washington D.C..It’s the Madison<br />
Square Garden of social reform<br />
fighters everywhere. Groomed from<br />
decades of images romanticized the<br />
marches of Martin Luther<br />
King Jr for civil rights; The sit-ins<br />
and walk-outs of thousands of students<br />
fighting the war pigs over Vietnam;<br />
Veterans leading the charge of<br />
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peace and awareness regarding the<br />
seen and unseen scars of war; Our<br />
LGBTQ brothers and sisters fighting<br />
to be considered simply equal in the<br />
eyes of the State. However, this isn’t<br />
some history class I’m talking about,<br />
and it most certainly isn’t some Hollywood<br />
movie, not yet anyway. This<br />
is the fight to end the prohibition of<br />
cannabis. Over this past weekend,<br />
cannabis warriors from all over the<br />
country converged on our Capital<br />
with two goals in mind: reform and<br />
civil disobedience.<br />
Thanks to the coordinating<br />
efforts of the Washington D.C.<br />
based reform group DCMJ, all<br />
roads lead to the White House this<br />
weekend for procannabis organizations<br />
from all over the country. For<br />
one well-known organization, the<br />
Massachusetts Cannabis Reform<br />
Coalition (MassCann/NORML),<br />
that road started in their home state<br />
of Massachusetts, where they are<br />
deeply engaged in the fight to legalize<br />
in November <strong>2016</strong>. MassCann is<br />
certainly no beginner to the fight for<br />
cannabis freedom. The organization<br />
has been the facilitator of The Boston<br />
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Freedom Rally, the largest annual<br />
pro-cannabis rally on the east coast,<br />
for nearly 3 decades. However, with<br />
the possibility of legalization coming<br />
to their state in November, reform<br />
organizations like MassCann are beginning<br />
to ask themselves,<br />
what comes after legalization for an<br />
organization whose sole purpose is to<br />
legalize? One of the obvious changes<br />
in the mission of the organization is<br />
the scope of their reform. MassCann<br />
has plans of expanding their mission<br />
scope to include reform for all of New<br />
England, as well as direct involvement<br />
in federal reform, which focuses their<br />
aim towards D.C after <strong>2016</strong>. So to the<br />
directors of the organization, endorsing<br />
DCMJ’s direct action event at the<br />
White House, #Reschedule420 and<br />
organizing as a group to make sure<br />
MassCann was represented there was<br />
a great first move towards stepping up<br />
onto the national stage. The importance<br />
of rescheduling cannabis can<br />
not be over stated. Under the Controlled<br />
Substances Act, the U.S. has<br />
five “schedules” for drugs and chemicals<br />
that can be used to make drugs.<br />
Schedule I is reserved for drugs that<br />
the DEA considers to have no “currently<br />
accepted medical use.”<br />
Marijuana has been classified<br />
as Schedule I for decades, grouped<br />
together with other substances like<br />
heroin and LSD. Many reformers call<br />
for the out and out descheduling of<br />
cannabis, but whether we re-schedule<br />
or deschedule,many believe either<br />
move is really the first step in completely<br />
eroding any argument the<br />
prohibitionists have left. Most of the<br />
blatant ignorance stems from the<br />
ability to shrug and simply say, “there<br />
hasn’t been enough testing.” So on a<br />
wing and a prayer, and 2 days notice,<br />
MassCann threw together their field<br />
trip, they dubbed, “The Sons of Liberty<br />
Road Trip,” resolute not to miss any<br />
of the fun DCMJ was planning.<br />
It’s not just enough to show up to a<br />
party however, you have to make an<br />
entrance, and<br />
that is what<br />
MassCann set<br />
out to do with<br />
their outing to<br />
the<br />
Capital. Dropping<br />
the funds to<br />
rent a 15 passenger<br />
van and<br />
hotels for its<br />
people, Mass-<br />
Cann set out to<br />
fill their road<br />
trip with activists<br />
from as<br />
many<br />
state NORML<br />
chapters and<br />
other organizations<br />
as they<br />
could link up<br />
within 48 hours.<br />
They first set out<br />
to fill seats from<br />
their own ranks<br />
of Massachusetts<br />
activists, some<br />
of those invited<br />
included military<br />
veteran/<br />
activist Stephen<br />
Mandile, Caregiver<br />
and baker<br />
Mary Beth of<br />
CannaBeth<br />
Consultants,<br />
and Dr. Uma Dhanabalan of Uplifting<br />
Health and Wellness, who was able to<br />
squeeze a last-minute flight into her<br />
busy schedule to show her support.<br />
Hitting the road around midnight on<br />
Saturday April 2nd, MassCann started<br />
its trek down Route 95 for D.C..<br />
Rhode Island NORML was first on<br />
the way south. RI NORML reps Mark<br />
Ward and Arthur McCarthy hopped<br />
in the van early Saturday morning as<br />
the MassCann crew trucked onward<br />
through the night towards its next<br />
pick up in Philadelphia. Sleep was<br />
made all the better by the donation of<br />
medibles by Beast Coast Bacon and<br />
The Hardy Consultants.The van rolled<br />
into the City of Brotherly Love at<br />
about 7am to meet up with an all-star<br />
team of New Jersey and Pennsylvania<br />
activists. New Jersey NORML member<br />
Ricardo Rivera was invited to join<br />
the trip. Ricardo advocates tirelessly<br />
for his young daughter, Tuffy who suffers<br />
from Lennox Gastaut Syndrome,<br />
a rare and catastrophic form of epilepsy.<br />
Fresh off his federal probation<br />
for his Smoke Down Philly antics 2<br />
years prior, PhillyNORML member<br />
and FreedomLeaf editor Chris Goldstein<br />
joined the parade, as well as his<br />
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Philly partners in crime, Panic Hour host NA Poe, and<br />
Marine Corps. veteran/activist Mike Whiter. With so<br />
much activism and cannabis products packed onto one<br />
van, it would have really made for an interesting police<br />
report if some lucky prohibitionist happened to stop our<br />
weed warriors on their way to the White House. But of<br />
course, that thought was far from the group’s mind as<br />
“The Sons of Liberty Road Trip” continued on its journey<br />
to Washington D.C..<br />
Things kicked off at the DCMJ offices at about<br />
1:15pm, located just a couple blocks from the White<br />
House. Activists hustled at rolling out the boasted 51-<br />
foot joint, attempting to move it into position directly in<br />
front of the White House. Right then, the police stopped<br />
the procession of the huge inflatable joint being carried<br />
down the streets by 100s of supporters from proceeding<br />
any closer to the White House. A short stand off ensued,<br />
and for a moment things seemed like they were going to<br />
go south before they even got started.<br />
Rather than head-butt a wall, protesters opted<br />
to appease Big Brother and deflate their giant doobie,<br />
and move the crowd to President Obama’s lawn. With<br />
a beautifully simple PA on a hand cart and powered by<br />
car batteries, DCMJ opened up the mic to any and all<br />
advocates to address the crowd and add in their opinions<br />
to the collective discontent. Among many of the great<br />
speakers that come to D.C. in solidarity, some of the<br />
standout speeches came from the Sons of Liberty crew;<br />
MassCann’s own Dr. Uma Dhanabalan, NJNORML’s<br />
Ricardo Rivera, Philly’s NA Poe and Mike Whiter, all<br />
stirred the crowd.<br />
As the designated time, 4:20, to light-up in<br />
peaceful civil disobedience approached, there was an<br />
ever growing police and secret service presence.<br />
Located just a block away, were dozens of cruisers and<br />
paddy wagons on stand by. But as the bell tolled and the<br />
smoked rose, the sky did not fall. There were no mass<br />
arrests, there were no images to share of young people<br />
being dragged through the street of our nation’s Capital.<br />
There were no arrests at all, as far as I have personally<br />
heard of. There were in fact two $25 dollar fines, as<br />
dictated by D.C. “legalization” laws. However, in the true<br />
spirit of solidarity, NA Poe was seen personally paying<br />
the 2 protestors fines, handing them cash right from his<br />
own pocket. The crowds slowly began to disband after<br />
about an hour of undisturbed peaceful civil disobedience,<br />
and the participants of the event left with the<br />
charge to continue the fight, where ever it may need to<br />
be fought.<br />
Let’s talk about civil disobedience for a minute<br />
before I wrap this up, for it is the focal point of a never<br />
ending debate raging among activists. The argument<br />
revolves around whether or not it is a viable tactic that<br />
helps facilitate change or it’s a counterproductive hypocritical<br />
action that compromises the message of a<br />
movement by breaking the law. Henry David Thoreau<br />
once said, “Unjust laws exist; shall we be content to obey<br />
them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey<br />
them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress<br />
them at once? Men generally, under such a government<br />
as this, think that they ought to wait until they have<br />
persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that, if<br />
they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the<br />
evil. But it is the fault of the government itself that the<br />
remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse.” I have<br />
always tended to gravitate towards Thoreau in his views<br />
of civil disobedience as a catalyst for reform. But it is a<br />
tool of activism and like any other tool, you want to have<br />
the right tool for the job. Sometimes playing nice is the<br />
correct form of action, sometimes demands need to be<br />
made, sometimes reform needs to be taken because it<br />
will never be given. So I’ll leave you with this to reflect<br />
on; 2 days after the massively successful #Reschedule420<br />
protest, the DEA announced, “The Drug Enforcement<br />
Administration plans to decide whether marijuana<br />
should reclassified under federal law in “the first half of<br />
<strong>2016</strong>,” the agency said in a letter to senators”. Coincidence?<br />
I like to think not!<br />
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WE COULD LOSE THIS<br />
by Andy Gaus<br />
For the past few weeks, opponents of<br />
legalization have been piling on. A now-infamous<br />
op-ed by the Commonwealth’s governor,<br />
attorney general, and most powerful<br />
mayor in the Boston Globe. The report of<br />
the state Senate committee on marijuana.<br />
A declaration of the Massachusetts Hospital<br />
Organization. Against, against, against.<br />
Arguments range from the anticipated evils<br />
of Big Marijuana (apparently the only kind<br />
of business that shouldn’t be big) to the dangers<br />
of edibles. But two arguments — both<br />
equally spurious — stand out as candidates<br />
for the Big Lie treatment in the coming<br />
campaign.<br />
1. “Legal marijuana will be more available to<br />
minors.” More available<br />
than the current 100 percent? Well, perhaps<br />
a few minors can’t get ahold of any weed,<br />
but if so, it’s because they have no friends.<br />
Kids themselves, when surveyed, respond<br />
that alcohol is harder to get than marijuana<br />
because it’s sold in stores where they check<br />
ID. But what do the kids themselves know<br />
about what is and isn’t available to them?<br />
Surely not as much as our wise legislators.<br />
BIG LIES Emerge Against Legal Marijuana in Mass.<br />
2. “We already have an opioid crisis, we<br />
don’t want marijuana too.” This,<br />
of course, is also the opposite of the truth.<br />
Cannabis therapy is one of the<br />
principal alternatives to opioids, and the<br />
availability of medical cannabis has been<br />
shown to lower opioid deaths by 25 percent<br />
in states that have implemented medical<br />
marijuana (which, of course, doesn’t include<br />
Massachusetts). This line of falsification is<br />
particularly disappointing coming from a<br />
governor who has publicly vowed to fight<br />
the opioid epidemic with every tool at his<br />
disposal — except, apparently, cannabis.<br />
We can’t let prohibitionists create the vague<br />
feeling that legal marijuana “just isn’t safe.”<br />
We need to counter loud and strong — and<br />
soon — that marijuana is safer than alcohol<br />
and legalization is safer than prohibition.<br />
And so, to my colleagues at MassCann, our<br />
allies at the Committee to Regulate Marijuana<br />
Like Alcohol and other interested parties,<br />
I offer, royalty-free, the following slogans,<br />
suitable for billboards, bumper stickers and<br />
hand-lettered signs, not<br />
to mention sound bites and protest chants:<br />
MARIJUANA —<br />
SAFER THAN ALCOHOL LEGAL MARI-<br />
JUANA WITH AGE<br />
REGULATIONS —<br />
SAFER FOR OUR KIDS<br />
TAKE MARIJUANA SALES OFF STREET<br />
CORNERS: LEGAL<br />
MARIJUANA —<br />
SAFER FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOODS<br />
LEGAL, REGULATED MARIJUANA —<br />
SAFER FOR CONSUMERS<br />
CANNABIS THERAPY —<br />
SAFER THAN OPIOIDS LEGAL<br />
MARIJUANA —<br />
SAFER THAN PROHIBITION<br />
Polls in Massachusetts have shown majorities<br />
for legalization, but that could be eroded<br />
if opponents create a thick enough smog<br />
of fear and uncertainty. If our side doesn’t<br />
come hammering back with the theme that<br />
legalization makes us safer, our prospects in<br />
November aren’t safe either.<br />
Andy Gaus is a Massachusetts-based<br />
cannabis advocate and a member of MassCann-NORML.<br />
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<strong>2016</strong><br />
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Mass State House Smoke Signals<br />
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By Mike Cann
Is marijuana legalization coming to Massachusetts<br />
sooner than November <strong>2016</strong>? Local advocates hope so<br />
with two new marijuana reform bills filed with<br />
the Mass Legislature as well as a new Marijuana Legalization<br />
Committee just established by the new MA<br />
Senate President, Stanley Rosenberg. Good news are<br />
the house bills; HD3436, An Act to Regulate and Tax<br />
the Cannabis Industry sponsored by Rep. David Rogers,<br />
Cambridge and HD1502 which aims to help legal<br />
medical marijuana patients get access and employment<br />
protection among other things. HD1502 is sponsored<br />
by Frank Smizik, Brookline. As of press time, it has<br />
been confirmed that both bills have been filed, text of<br />
the bills has not yet been released, posted to the State<br />
House website.<br />
Mass Patients Advocacy Alliance which helped write<br />
HD1502 has posted a summary of that bill, which most<br />
importantly hopes to protect legal patients in need by<br />
lifting the arbitrary and cruel caregiver limits that the<br />
Mass Dept. of Public Health enacted.<br />
MPAA’s Deputy Director, Nichole Snow released this<br />
statement to us, “Over the last two years, I have attended<br />
wakes and funerals of patients that were waiting for<br />
safe access since the passage of the Act for Humanitarian<br />
Medical Use of Marijuana of 2012..Through<br />
HD 1502, we are asking to expand patient protections<br />
through ending employment, residential, and education<br />
discriminations. We are also asking to exempt<br />
medical marijuana from taxation and to increase the<br />
amount of patients that caregivers can serve if they do<br />
not have a dispensary open near their homes.<br />
The status of the medical marijuana program is a public<br />
safety emergency. Patients live in fear of losing their<br />
homes or their employment. Some patients<br />
continue to receive substandard medication on the<br />
black market to treat life threatening illnesses. This<br />
makes matters worse by forcing them to be involved in<br />
criminal activity or worse; exacerbating an already dire<br />
health situation.”<br />
“The Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance will<br />
continue to ask Representatives to sign on as cosponsors<br />
to “An Act to protect patients approved by physicians<br />
and certified by the department of public health<br />
to access medical marijuana.”<br />
“It’s not a tough question. Patients deserve these protections.”<br />
“One dispensary is not enough to treat all. We need<br />
caregivers serving more than one patient.”<br />
Meanwhile the Rep Rogers sponsored bill<br />
HD3436 would hope to legalize marijuana for those<br />
21+ with reports that it is a comprehensive bill which<br />
would legalize retail outlets and cafes, allow home<br />
grow provisions, and even hope to grant blanket amnesty<br />
for past marijuana offenses.<br />
All good news, right?<br />
Yes, but then there’s Senate Leader Rosenberg and<br />
Charlie Baker. Rosenberg after announcing his Legalization<br />
Committee went on Boston Herald Radio<br />
making the case that the Initiative process for marijuana<br />
reform is not the preferred way to pass “controversial”<br />
laws, that the Legislature could do it better than<br />
reformers who passed decrim in 2008, medical marijuana<br />
in 2012, with plans for a legalization initiative for<br />
<strong>2016</strong>. New Republican Governor Charlie Baker quickly<br />
responded that he supported Rosenberg’s move to<br />
study legalization but that he was still firmly in<br />
opposition to any bill that would hope to legalize<br />
cannabis. Rosenberg for all his harping about how this<br />
Committee would do better than Initiative process<br />
totally left out (as did the Herald interviewers) that<br />
reformers have only turned to the Initiative process<br />
because after decades of hearings, studies and double<br />
talk at the State House, no new laws. If we had waited<br />
for the state house to get it perfect? We’d still be talking<br />
about decrim, never mind fixing medical<br />
and going legal. It’s been decades since any marijuana<br />
reform bill in Massachusetts has been allowed to pass<br />
Democratic leadership in their various legislative committees<br />
to even allow a final vote on the floor. It<br />
remains to be seen if Rosenberg will help steer either<br />
bill out of Committee should they be introduced in the<br />
Senate.<br />
If there’s any leadership up there, Baker and<br />
Rosenberg will help push HD1502 and finally implement<br />
the medical marijuana as intended the first<br />
time around before Governor Patrick’s Department of<br />
Public Health.<br />
destroyed it.<br />
In <strong>2016</strong>, expect legalization to be on the ballot<br />
on MA and that most local politicians are blowing<br />
smoke signals about it until then.<br />
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