Representative Ryan Yamane, Chair of the House Committee on Health, still has not agreed to hear SB2141, a bill which would make important updates to Hawaii's current medical marijuana program. Please call (808)586-6150 and ask Representative Yamane to "hear SB2141 or waive it". If he chooses to waive the bill, it would be automatically heard by the Committee on Public Safety and then the Committee on Judiciary. Unless the bill starts moving, it will die and these important changes to policy for Hawaii's medical marijuana patients could be delayed for yet another ten years.
SB 2450 / With the state facing a $1.2 billion budget shortfall, Maui Sen. J. Kalani English figured the timing could be right this session to ease up on marijuana.
They say that the will of politicians often lags behind the sentiment of the public. Nowhere is this adage more clear than when it comes to marijuana law reform.
The day before Christmas songwriter and musician Vic Chesnutt took his own life. I was hesitant to write a memorial to him because I was so disappointed and hurt that he’d decided, again, to try to commit suicide.
Last January I proclaimed in the The Hill’s Congress blog: “Marijuana law reform is no longer a political liability; it’s a political opportunity.†Ten months later it appears that an unprecedented number of state-elected officials are heeding the message. Here’s just a sample.
California state lawmakers are scheduled to hear testimony tomorrow in support of taxing and regulating the commercial production and distribution of marijuana for adults age 21 and older.
[Paul Armentano 10/29 update: Archived video of the entire hearing is now available online here. The hearing is three hours long and archived in three separate parts.]
REGIONAL: ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER IMPLICATIONS OF LEGALIZING MARIJUANA
10/27/09 | CBS5 |
A San Francisco assemblyman will chair a legislative hearing in Sacramento Wednesday on the potential ramifications of legalizing marijuana in California.
The most outrageous, loathsome and malicious raid on a medical marijuana collective that I have ever heard of has just happened and it is next to IE in Pomona. I have printed below what I was sent by the patients and advocates involved in the raid - this sounds like something out of San Bernardino, but the Pomona Police Department have made the SB cops look like guardian angels. Â Read it and be shocked enough to do something about it. They are staging a protest Friday beginning at 8:30 a.m. in front of the Pomona Police Dept. at 490 W. Mission Blvd. Pomona, Ca. 91766.
They say that the will of politicians often lags behind the sentiment of the public. Nowhere is this adage more clear than when it comes to marijuana law reform.
