Democrats Selling Out On The Mmj Law In Montana.

[greenbuddha]

Senate Votes To Repeal Medical Marijuana LawPosted by CN Staff on March 30, 2011 at 15:46:47 PT

By Charles S. Johnson, Missoulian State Bureau

Source: Missoulian

 

Helena, MT -- After a long debate, the Senate voted 37-13 Wednesday to repeal Montana's medical marijuana law and replace with one with greater restrictions to make it much harder for people to get cards in the future authorizing them to use it.

 

Before passing Senate Bill 423, the Senate named the state Department of Labor and Industry as the licensing authority over what will be called "therapeutic marijuana."

 

That task was assigned to the Public Service Commission in the original version of the bill, but moved to the Department of Agriculture during the debate and finally to the Department of Labor and Industry.

 

Before SB423 moves to the House by Wednesday's revenue bill transmittal deadline, however, it faces a final Senate vote later today.

 

Before that vote is taken, the Senate must agree to suspend its rules, a move that requires a two-thirds' majority vote, or 34 of the 50 senators to concur.

 

That gives some negotiating leverage to the Senate's Democratic minority, some of whose votes will be needed to suspend the rules. The Senate has 28 Republicans and 22 Democrats.

 

At a caucus of Senate Democrats earlier in the day, some senators were suggesting that the Democrats not go along with the vote to suspend the rules unless they got something in return such as Republican support for a $97.8 million bonding bill.

 

"I'm trying to get a deal," said Senate Minority Leader Carol Williams, D-Missoula, at the caucus.

 

Source: Missoulian (MT)

Author: Charles S. Johnson, Missoulian State Bureau

Published: March 30, 2011

Copyright: 2011 Missoulian

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Senate Votes To Repeal Medical Marijuana LawPosted by CN Staff on March 30, 2011 at 15:46:47 PT

By Charles S. Johnson, Missoulian State Bureau

Source: Missoulian

 

Helena, MT -- After a long debate, the Senate voted 37-13 Wednesday to repeal Montana's medical marijuana law and replace with one with greater restrictions to make it much harder for people to get cards in the future authorizing them to use it.

 

Before passing Senate Bill 423, the Senate named the state Department of Labor and Industry as the licensing authority over what will be called "therapeutic marijuana."

 

That task was assigned to the Public Service Commission in the original version of the bill, but moved to the Department of Agriculture during the debate and finally to the Department of Labor and Industry.

 

Before SB423 moves to the House by Wednesday's revenue bill transmittal deadline, however, it faces a final Senate vote later today.

 

Before that vote is taken, the Senate must agree to suspend its rules, a move that requires a two-thirds' majority vote, or 34 of the 50 senators to concur.

 

That gives some negotiating leverage to the Senate's Democratic minority, some of whose votes will be needed to suspend the rules. The Senate has 28 Republicans and 22 Democrats.

 

At a caucus of Senate Democrats earlier in the day, some senators were suggesting that the Democrats not go along with the vote to suspend the rules unless they got something in return such as Republican support for a $97.8 million bonding bill.

 

"I'm trying to get a deal," said Senate Minority Leader Carol Williams, D-Missoula, at the caucus.

 

Source: Missoulian (MT)

Author: Charles S. Johnson, Missoulian State Bureau

Published: March 30, 2011

Copyright: 2011 Missoulian

Contact: oped@missoulian.com

Website http://www.missoulian.com/

URL: http://drugsense.org/url/1K5u8xY5

 

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With the latest polls showing that only 42% of the US population support a 2nd term for Obama in 2012 and with his Disappoval running at 48 %, Democrats are likely to be in big trouble come our next Fed election.

 

It is likely that in order to get the HUGE youth turnout Dems will need for Obama to win and to stop the bleeding in the House and Senate ballot initatives proposing the Legalization or Decriminalization of MJ will be initiated by "undercover" Dem operatives. I see this especially as likely in Wash, Oregon and Calif....plus a lot of other states.

 

Ironic ? Yeah, but politics makes for strange bedfellows !!

 

Dr. Jinx

[Croppled1]

Here are elements that the subcommittee asked to be drafted into a bill:

 

• Include parts of an interim committee's bill requiring background checks, fingerprinting and licensing for medical marijuana businesses.
• Add language from New Mexico to require a second physician with experience in serious pain modulation to review any requests for medical marijuana cards by people who say they have serious and chronic pain.
• Require the Department of Public Health and Human Services to report to the state Board of Medical Examiners when a physician has recommended more than a certain number of people for medical marijuana, to ensure they are observing the board's standards of care. That number has yet to be determined. A physician would have to have relationship with a patient for six months and at least four patient visits over that period to recommend the patient use medical pot.
• Restrict the use of telemedicine to recommend that people obtain medical marijuana cards.
• Use the New Mexico model to allow registered cardholders to grow a set number of marijuana plants and seedlings with the help of a volunteer assistant.
• Implement a system for cardholders who are in nursing homes, rental property or other places where they can't grow medical marijuana. They could be allowed to buy it from a nonprofit registered grower who would ship the marijuana to them via a courier delivery system.
• Eliminate all marijuana storefront dispensaries.
• Prohibit all marketing and advertising for medical marijuana.
• Ban the export and import of medical marijuana.
• Limit the cardholders to Montana residents only.
• Require a second physician to review any attempts to authorize medical marijuana for minors.
• Remove the term "medical marijuana" and replace it with "therapeutic marijuana."
• Put in a licensing system for derivative products made from marijuana such as tinctures, oils, butters and other substances.
• Ban smoking of medical marijuana in public places.
• Authorize local governments to set zoning restrictions on medical marijuana businesses.
• Repeal the affirmative defense that now can be used by "qualifying patients" who are caught with marijuana but who don't have medical marijuana cards, although they could be eligible for them

http://missoulian.com/news/local/article_ce412a8a-5400-11e0-bb54-001cc4c002e0.html

 

 

[Croppled1]

Montana Senate Votes to Repeal Medical Marijuana Law

by Phillip Smith, March 31, 2011, 10:44pm Posted in: The Montana Senate voted 29-21 in favor of a bill, House Bill 161, repealing the state's voter-approved medical marijuana law Thursday evening. It needs one more procedural vote to clear the chamber. The measure has already passed the House.

 

 

 

Montana is on the verge of seeing its medical marijuana law repealed.Thursday's repeal vote came after increasingly fractious wrangling among legislators over efforts to regulate—not repeal—medical marijuana in Montana blew up Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Jeff Essmann (R-Billings) had crafted a bill to regulate the industry, Senate Bill 423, and that bill sailed through the Senate on a 37-13 vote. But the Senate twice failed to muster the two-thirds majority needed to suspend the rules to allow the bill to be voted on twice in one day in order to meet a legislative deadline.

 

That left an opening for Senate repeal advocates. After the first vote to suspend the rules on SB 423 failed, Sen. John Brendan (R-Scobey) blew the repeal bill out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where it had previously been stalled on a tie vote after passing the House.

 

If the bill passes on the final procedural vote, it would then go to the desk of Gov. Bryan Schweitzer (D). If he were to sign the bill, that would mark the first time any medical marijuana state has turned back the clock.

 

But Schweitzer's signature is by no means a done deal. In previous comments on the subject, Schweitzer said he wanted to see the state's law reformed, not repealed

 

 

 

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2011/mar/31/montana_senate_votes_repeal_medi

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House Bill 161

http://data.opi.mt.g...lpdf/HB0161.pdf

 

 

Senate Bill 423

 

http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/2011/billpdf/SB0423.pdf

[DayTripper]

Rogue dispensaries and a Cananbis Caravan sealed their fate last year.

After watching Granholme and the other Democrats toss us under the bus on purpose before this last election it was clear to me we couldn't play that game and expect to win; all this does is confirm my suspicions - the Democrats don't want to help us any more than the Republicans do.

 

That's why we need to embrace the law as written and demand the State support us in its implementation. If we don't claim the law allows us to act the fool then we have the law on our side. When we proclaim the law says what it doesn't say we are targets for both Parties wrath and dealmaking.

 

We aren't playing with our peers here - we are playing with narcissists who only care about power and re-election. We have to make them fear the elections, or they will never play fair because they simply don't care about our problems or complaints unless they affect them negatively in some manner.

[JimD]

Two doctors you say? Twice as many signature mills bilking you for 6 months of "visits" is what I see. It is unreal that the drug warrior zealots would rather continue creating legal and monetary hoops instead of doing the simplest and most rational thing.

[+wolfgang]

Hopefully ppl will vote with their brains and not their hearts the next election,BO said he was not going to spend the money or man power against MMJ users,among mnay other broken promises he is no better than Bush in fact with the recent actions with Libya I would call him a dumb donkey and one of our worst presidents ever,who would give weapons to the rebels and THEN find out who they are. Lets vote for someone that has experince next time,not that I think McCain was any better trust me,as far as Im concerned McCain threw us under the bus many times. But let's not vote because they re R or D or pretty or smooth talkers,look at Gary Johnson if he could get enough ppl behind him he COULD have the youth vote.