I remember when Tulsa was kind of cool showing 'Reefer Madness' at midnight showings; lazer light shows; KMOD kite flys.
I remember when Tulsa was kind of cool showing 'Reefer Madness' at midnight showings; lazer light shows; KMOD kite flys.
I'll just leave this here.
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/medical-marijuana-could-present-tough-choice-gun-o/nsMBs/
By Russell Mills
TULSA —
While thousands of Oklahomans desperately hope to see medical marijuana become legal in the state, many of them may be presented with a tough decision.
Under federal law - which continues to classify marijuana as a Schedule I narcotic - anyone possessing or using marijuana can face a stiff prison sentence for possession of a firearm.
That's something that organizers of the recent petition drive to get marijuana on the ballot in Oklahoma apparently hadn't reckoned with.
KRMG asked Joe Dorman with Oklahomans for Health whether medical marijuana would present a problem for people who, for example, wanted to have a license to carry a handgun under the state's Self Defense Act (SDA).
"With the Self Defense Act, there would be no issue with this as far as state regulations," Dorman said.
But when KRMG reached out to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which handles SDA licenses, we got a very different answer.
In an emailed response to our inquiry, OSBI legal counsel Sunne Day wrote:
Oklahoma law prohibits OSBI from issuing a handgun license to anyone who is "neligible to possess a pistol due to any provisions of law of this state or the United States Code..." (See 21 O.S. Section 1290.10(9)). Federal law, as pointed out in your follow-up email, prohibits any person who is an "unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance..." from shipping, transporting, receiving or possessing firearms. The Controlled Substances Act lists marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance. Moreover, federal law does not provide an exception for medical marijuana use, even if an exception is provided by state law. Therefore, a person would be prohibited under state and federal law from having a handgun license if they are an unlawful user of a controlled substance, which includes medical marijuana.
The issue has received wide attention in the neighboring state of Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal (under state law) as well as medical marijuana.
A recent article on potguide.com notes that the federal law "forces patients to choose between the medicine they need and the protection (or perhaps fresh deer meat) they are constitutionally-promised."
There's a move on in Colorado to protect medical marijuana patients from losing their 2nd Amendment rights.
If it survived the inevitable battles in court, it would present a legal precedent for similar legislation in Oklahoma.
http://www.krmg.com/news/news/local/medical-marijuana-could-present-tough-choice-gun-o/nsMBs/
By Russell Mills
TULSA —
While thousands of Oklahomans desperately hope to see medical marijuana become legal in the state, many of them may be presented with a tough decision.
Under federal law - which continues to classify marijuana as a Schedule I narcotic - anyone possessing or using marijuana can face a stiff prison sentence for possession of a firearm.
That's something that organizers of the recent petition drive to get marijuana on the ballot in Oklahoma apparently hadn't reckoned with.
KRMG asked Joe Dorman with Oklahomans for Health whether medical marijuana would present a problem for people who, for example, wanted to have a license to carry a handgun under the state's Self Defense Act (SDA).
"With the Self Defense Act, there would be no issue with this as far as state regulations," Dorman said.
But when KRMG reached out to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which handles SDA licenses, we got a very different answer.
In an emailed response to our inquiry, OSBI legal counsel Sunne Day wrote:
Oklahoma law prohibits OSBI from issuing a handgun license to anyone who is "neligible to possess a pistol due to any provisions of law of this state or the United States Code..." (See 21 O.S. Section 1290.10(9)). Federal law, as pointed out in your follow-up email, prohibits any person who is an "unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance..." from shipping, transporting, receiving or possessing firearms. The Controlled Substances Act lists marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance. Moreover, federal law does not provide an exception for medical marijuana use, even if an exception is provided by state law. Therefore, a person would be prohibited under state and federal law from having a handgun license if they are an unlawful user of a controlled substance, which includes medical marijuana.
The issue has received wide attention in the neighboring state of Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal (under state law) as well as medical marijuana.
A recent article on potguide.com notes that the federal law "forces patients to choose between the medicine they need and the protection (or perhaps fresh deer meat) they are constitutionally-promised."
There's a move on in Colorado to protect medical marijuana patients from losing their 2nd Amendment rights.
If it survived the inevitable battles in court, it would present a legal precedent for similar legislation in Oklahoma.
That issue was brought up to organizers as a reason that I would not sign the petition, responded to with "but we have a line in there stating that a MMJ card can't be used as a preclusion", and with any mention of the requirement of OSBI to enforce federal law in the SDA ignored.
The provision that references persons prohibited under United States Code would have to be removed. One sentence - that's it. Then it would be up to the feds to enforce their own prohibited persons law, but they are prohibited from using government funds to enforce federal laws that conflict with state and local marijuana laws under the omnibus bill that was passed in December 2014.
I also have other issues with the way the petition was done, but mostly the following two:
1) Fails to remove the current $3.50/gram tax. When asked about that oversight, the only replies I've ever received has been "marijuana isn't legal right now, so Oklahoma can't have a tax on it right now".
2) It's an initiative statute. If you're going to spend the money to circulate a petition and campaign for the vote, why take a route that the legislature can overturn within a month of the start of the session, especially given our current legislative and executive branch?
The provision that references persons prohibited under United States Code would have to be removed. One sentence - that's it. Then it would be up to the feds to enforce their own prohibited persons law, but they are prohibited from using government funds to enforce federal laws that conflict with state and local marijuana laws under the omnibus bill that was passed in December 2014.
I also have other issues with the way the petition was done, but mostly the following two:
1) Fails to remove the current $3.50/gram tax. When asked about that oversight, the only replies I've ever received has been "marijuana isn't legal right now, so Oklahoma can't have a tax on it right now".
2) It's an initiative statute. If you're going to spend the money to circulate a petition and campaign for the vote, why take a route that the legislature can overturn within a month of the start of the session, especially given our current legislative and executive branch?
I'm sure they'll get right back to you as soon as their heads clear in their smoky backroom...and Dave gets back with those Cheetos they sent him out to buy.
I know it doesn't actually apply here in OK, but it was just decided in the 9th Circus Court of Appeals in CA that people with a MMJ card where indeed considered prohibited from purchasing a firearm.
If this is appealed to the SCOTUS, and they rule the same, then anyone in the U.S. who has a Medical Marijuana card could be considered a prohibited person.
The lawsuit did not address simple use of Marijuana as a prohibiting factor, as the plaintiff was denied the right to purchase a firearm simply because she had an MMJ card, and was suing specifically on that point.
If this is appealed to the SCOTUS, and they rule the same, then anyone in the U.S. who has a Medical Marijuana card could be considered a prohibited person.
The lawsuit did not address simple use of Marijuana as a prohibiting factor, as the plaintiff was denied the right to purchase a firearm simply because she had an MMJ card, and was suing specifically on that point.
Addictive painkiller profiteer donates $500k to fight cannabis legalization in Arizona
Makers of the fentanyl-based product Subsys are the largest donors to the campaign against Arizona's cannabis legalization campaign.
Insys Therapeutics, which profits off of a painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin, has donated $500,000 to a campaign opposing marijuana legalization in the US state of Arizona.
The maker of the drug Subsys, a sublingual fentanyl spray, said that children are their main concern for fighting Proposition 205, which appears on the ballot this November.
http://www.miragenews.com/addictive...0k-to-fight-cannabis-legalization-in-arizona/
Makers of the fentanyl-based product Subsys are the largest donors to the campaign against Arizona's cannabis legalization campaign.
Insys Therapeutics, which profits off of a painkiller 50 times more potent than heroin, has donated $500,000 to a campaign opposing marijuana legalization in the US state of Arizona.
The maker of the drug Subsys, a sublingual fentanyl spray, said that children are their main concern for fighting Proposition 205, which appears on the ballot this November.
http://www.miragenews.com/addictive...0k-to-fight-cannabis-legalization-in-arizona/
I suspect Soros is pushing for legalization and has donated huge sums of money to legalize marijuana. Recently a guy driving a car crossed the medial and ran thru cable barriers and hit another car head on killing a small child and one parent-possible both. The guy took marijuana and couldn't get high enough because his system was used to the "medication" and he took a couple more controlled substances to get high. He's on the run and wanted by the police at present. Sometimes when a guy gets used to marijuana it doesn't have the effect he or she wants so they take more to get themselves to the high they'd like. Of course, what they do to their own bodies is their own business and it doesn't hurt anyone but themselves so no big deal-except to the car they hit...
We should outlaw pot and this would never happen...oh wait...
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