Open letter to Governor Brown (if you feel the same, contact him, below)

1. SB 847 will make patients collectives that are established but within 600 feet of a residence, have to close.  This ignores their pre-existing rights, stigmatizes patients, and reduces safe access.

2. AB 1300 will allow cities to ban dispensaries.  This will make a patchwork of city rules, and it will lead to “small town thinking” and local rule of an item of state-wide concern that should be governed by state law, not small minds and their belief systems about medical marijuana.

Both of these lousy measures were written by DEMOCRATS (shame, shame) and both passed both houses of the state legislature.  There is only one last ditch chance, the veto and the pocket veto.
Get involved, let’s send the message to the Gov: don’t sign these bills which clearly derogate from State rights!

 

 

Here is a place to contact Governor Brown.

We sometimes need the larger elements of government to protect us from “mob rule.” We need state law to protect medical marijuana patients from the wrath of small minded local politicians and local special interest groups. The last thing patients want is for the State legislature to hand our hard fought medical marijuana rights over to the cities, but that’s exactly what this terrible bill will do.

AB 1300, by a democrat, Bob Blumenfeld, is poorly thought out and yet it passed with an overwhelming majority. Presumably the State Senate sister bill will pass as well, so we need to get the state senate aware of the problems with local rule. We need patients, collectives, NORML, ASA, etc. to wake up on this one!!!!!!!!