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Senate Bill 0660 (2013) Senate Introduced Bill


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Seems like they want to end the "homegrow" to me.

 

this bill is BAD.

 

 

 

" A Pharma-Grade-Cannabis facility may be FOR profit or non profit. "

 

 

A new registry, no mention of caregivers, current cards must be for forfieted.......

 

This looks to me like they're laying the groundwork to end patients and caregivers growing their own. So, the question I have is, will this end the Act as it stands now?

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   BEFORE

 

 5  ISSUING A CARD TO AN ELIGIBLE PATIENT UNDER THIS SECTION, THE

 

 6  DEPARTMENT SHALL DETERMINE WHETHER THE INDIVIDUAL HAS PREVIOUSLY

 

 7  BEEN CONVICTED OF ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURING, CREATING,

 

 8  DISTRIBUTING, POSSESSING, OR USING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR

 

 9  CONSPIRING OR ATTEMPTING TO MANUFACTURE, CREATE, DISTRIBUTE,

 

10  POSSESS, OR USE A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE IN THIS STATE OR

 

11  ELSEWHERE. IF THE INDIVIDUAL HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF

 

12  ILLEGALLY MANUFACTURING, CREATING, DISTRIBUTING, POSSESSING, OR

 

13  USING A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OR CONSPIRING OR ATTEMPTING TO

 

14  MANUFACTURE, CREATE, DISTRIBUTE, POSSESS, OR USE A CONTROLLED

 

15  SUBSTANCE IN THIS STATE OR ELSEWHERE, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOT

 

16  ISSUE A REGISTRATION CARD TO THAT INDIVIDUAL.  

Is this actually saying that anyone who has ever gotten a simple possession can't get a card?  No matter where or when that possession was?

 

I mean this bill is obviously crazy, being introduced by 2 republicans and all, but is it that crazy?

 

And then you get your magic cannabis at the pharmacy?  Their plan is for Walgreens to have pounds of dank in the back?  

 

So many other things wrong with this bill, it almost seems like a joke.

 

 

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It appears intended to lock in permission for only state authorized and tested cannabis to be bought and sold, and could rule out many of us who presently use this controlled substance for medical purposes from continuing to engage as we have. The requirements are waaay outa line, and I don't see this having a hope in hell.

 

To define "pharmaceutical grade marijuana" in the terms of the bill is to strictly limit availability and add excessive cost. Other, e.g, reporting and security, requirements appear onerous to the point of making it impractical or even prohibitive for medical dispensaries to operate under these rules.

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I have not read it as of yet because it won't fly until the end of this year at 4;20 AM if we all want to keep what we have left in the People's Law 1 we had better start supporting our Law because it may be gone sooner then we think 

Fist thing the Lansing workers that keep telling us they work for us DO NOT WANT ANYONE TO GROW cannabis for are selfs 

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Senate Pushes Hard On Prairie Plant’s Pot Plan

04 Nov, 2013

 

Bill wipes out over 95% of Synthetic Cannabis legislation passed in 2012; introduced on Oct. 31, Richardson’s bill is fast tracked and given a Committee hearing on Nov. 5th

 

LANSING- It’s politics as usual in the state capital, with financial influence pushing bills and carting legislators all over the continent.

The Senate Governmental Operations Committee has posted their agenda for Tuesday, November 5th, and the newly-introduced Prairie Plant Pharmaceutical Pot bill has managed to move to the head of the class. SB 660 was introduced on Thursday, October 31.

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A marijuana garden, in a promotional picture from Prairie Plant Systems

The ink isn’t even dry on the official copy and they are set to push the bill through Committee. Five days from introduction to consideration is, to say the least, remarkably fast. Sponsored by Sens. Randy Richardville, R- Monroe and Roger Kahn, R- Saginaw, the Bill is a 2013 version of last year’s Pharmaceutical Grade Cannabis bill. Pushed by Canadian marijuana manufacturing supergiant Prairie Plant Systems, the proposal would create a series of marijuana distribution centers across Michigan that would obtain their cannabis from a select few enormous growing operations like the ones Prairie Plant operates in Saskatoon.

A big part of the new SB 660 is the destruction of last year’s Synthetic Cannabis Bill. Sponsored by Senator Hildebrand, the bill outlawed the manufacture and sale of K2, Spice, bath salts and other substances that supposedly mimicked the effects of THC. SB 660 wipes out 127 lines of legislation that was signed by Governor Snyder amidst much fanfare, pomp and circumstance. Those 127 lines are replaced with three lines- (3) lines- in order to create a market for Prairie Plant and their products, marketed under the name Cannimed, intended for sale to Michigan’s most sick and ill individuals through big-box pharmacies like Walgreens and CVS.

Read more about SB 660′s elimination of the protections from synthetic cannabinoids HERE

Prairie Plant made media headlines when they took legislators on tours of their underground gardens located in old mines in Michigan. Their proposal, at the time, stemmed around cultivating marijuana in those mines; the idea seems to have moved out of the mines and into the countryside. SB 660 contains protections for a Prairie Plant-style manufacturer of cannabis from product liability lawsuits, from criminal charges and removes the ability for local communities to say no to the giant greenhouses.

Prairie Plant has shuttled legislators and, in some cases, staff members through the mines in Michigan and even flown them to the Saskatoon cultivation site. Rep. Michael Callton, R-Nashville, revealed on an interview show last week that he was leaving on Friday, November 8th, to be given the Canadian pot plantation tour along with other notables from the Michigan political arena.

With this kind of money invested in seducing the legislature, it should be no surprise that the bill was placed on the fast-track. Co-sponsor and Senate Majority Leader Richardville shuttled the bill into the Committee he chairs and he alone determines which issues are brought up for consideration, and when.

The bill is opposed by nearly all marijuana rights-based organizations in Michigan, as it was in 2012. “This bill creates a parallel registry system to the one contained in the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMA),” said Jamie Lowell, Chairman of the Michigan chapter of Americans for Safe Access. “It creates a system that is less responsive to the needs of individual patients, and one that is based on a Canadian model that required all home-based cultivation of marijuana to cease.”

Michigan has a dispensary bill in the House of Representatives, HB 4271, which requires marijuana distribution centers to use locally-produced cannabis to sell to legally registered patients under the guidelines of the MMA. Nearly 30,000 individuals are currently licensed to cultivate marijuana in Michigan on behalf of their patients; most of the 130,000 patients registered through the MMA have enjoyed the right to grow their own cannabis for the last five years.

Read the entire bill, SB 660, HERE

The notice from the Senate:

Location Rooms 402 and 403, Capitol Building, 100 S. Capitol Avenue, Lansing, MI 48933 Date Tuesday, 11/5/2013 Time 1:00 pm Agenda SJR V (Green) Legislature; other; federal balanced budget amendment; petition congress.SB 660 (Kahn) Controlled substances; marihuana; sale of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis through licensed facilities; allow under certain circumstances and regulate the possession and use of pharmaceutical-grade cannabis by certain individuals.

And any other business to come properly before the committee.

Chair Randy Richardville
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I am disgusted with this turn of events....that our state legislators would take a few days off to go to Canada to see how Canadians can sell us something and take our money.  It could be MMJ, computers, automobile parts - whatever.

 

We elected these folks to represent our best interests.  Our best interests are to use the resources we have here at home to produce products that we, here at home, consume.

 

I resent that my tax dollars would pay a state-level lawmaker to travel abroad to try to figure out how to allow a FOREIGN corporation to produce products to sell us here in Michigan.  Such efforts should be focused on ... What can we do here in MI to meet our MMJ needs while keeping the money/profit here at home.

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Just sitting in the hallway of the Capitol, waiting for the hearing to begin. Personally, I see it as a shot across the bow to hb 4271... So it should be interesting...

You apparently made it on very short notice. Hell. It's not even on the agenda. Nice work. Please get the news out as quickly as possible.

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it is a favorite bill of Republican leadership in the executive branch and the Senate.  It has support from LARA (my best guess) and PAAM.  Now hear this clearly:  This bill is meant to run parallel to the MMMA, not in place of, as Senate Majority Leader Richardsville pointed out over and over today.  It is also necessary to have the Federal Govt change their name of mmj to Schedule 2.  Then it could be sold in pharmacies only.  They intend to test test test, and label label label.

 

Truthfully in my mind the real threat from this bill is a bit down the road if a bunch of conditions come to pass…. then they potentially could eliminate the MMMA and culitivation.  But the precedent is real and all you need do is look around the country to see that is the case.

 

There were a couple contentious witnesses that really would be well served to quit their diatribe about 2/3rds the way through.  Mental games and calliing out Senators does not win friends or influence.  The other thing that was disappointing was the number of people who ranted off topic until Sen Richardsville had to shut them down.

 

For the record, CPU did not speak, but we did post our objection to this bill on the record…..

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