Arizona official refuses to expand health conditions for medical marijuana

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• Engaged Voter posted at 1:39 pm on Fri, Jul 20, 2012.

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  "Because marijuana has not been subjected to any high quality, scientifically controlled testing for any of the petitioned conditions, we find no convincing evidence that marijuana provides a benefit,''

  Gee, no evidence because no testing has been done...REALLY?! WOW!

  The dumbing down of America is complete.

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• PeacefulCat posted at 6:35 am on Fri, Jul 20, 2012.

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  The only evidence that marijuana relieves stress that Will Humble and the ADHS pain and depression pill pushers are going to recongnize is streets full of people demanding this war on hemp and humanity end. Will Humble and Jan Brewer should spend the rest of their lives in prison for the pain, suffering, crime, death and division their greed has caused.
  ARIZONA VOTER PROTECTION ACT
  PROPOSITION 105

  Arizona voters battled lawmakers and leaders to finally bring medical marijuana to a vote in 1996. This measure passed with a 65% margin and our State Legislatures overturned that law. This forced citizens to bring Proposition 105 to a vote in 1998. The Arizona Voter Protection Act” prevents our adversarial Governor and Legislature from vetoing or obstructing laws the people initiate and the voters approve. Arizonans had to won “voter protection” from our public servants.

  In 2010 Arizona citizens again forced another vote for Medical Marijuana and won in spite of an all out assault by our Community Leaders, Government and the Arizona Republic to defeat this law with a media scare campaign of misinformation.

  Then Governor Brewer and Will Humble (Head of the Department of Health Services) waged a campaign to sabotage the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act and created an ambush of litigation to stop medical marijuana patients from having legal access to marijuana. Bombs of litigation are exploding from the legal ambush the Washington based group that wrote the sabotage into Proposition 203. Marijuana Policy Project wrote the rules that crippled this law from the start.

  Judge Gama’s ruling has come back from the Arizona Courts regarding Governor Brewer and Will Humble’s attack on the medical marijuana law. His ruling continually defers to the will and intent of the voters:

  MARICOPA COUNTY CV 2011-011290 01/17/2012

  Judge Gama:

  In construing a statute adopted by initiative, the Court’s primary objective “is to give effect to the intent of the electorate.” Fogliano v. Brain ex rel. Cnty. of Maricopa, 2011 WL6056999, at *5 (Ariz. App. Dec. 6, 2011) (quotation and citation omitted).

  The voters passed Proposition 203 informed of marijuana’s therapeutic value in treating a wide array of debilitating medical conditions. Prop. 203, at § 2(B). The voters intended to protect patients with those debilitating medical conditions (and their physicians and providers) “from arrest and prosecution, criminal and other penalties and property forfeiture if such patients engage in the medical use of marijuana.” Id. at § 2(G). The voters contemplated this be done in 120 days.

  We have a governor and the head of our State Health Department pouring through the language of Proposition 203 for any loop hole they can find to continue this sabotage of the law and will of the people. This struggle between the citizens and our public servants shines a bright light on a problem that is much deeper than Corruption, Cancer or the Liberty to use Marijuana.
  

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