Santa Cruz area

[LedZeppelin]

Hey everyone! I'm from the Santa Cruz area and I'm looking to get legal. I suffer from chronic headaches that I've had most of my life. I've been to countless doctors and had multiple MRIs. I just have a few questions:

1. How do I go about getting a copy of my medical records? Do I just call up a hospital and ask them for it? I've been to multiple doctors all around CA and multiple departments - what place do I call to get a copy of all of my records?
2. How much does it cost for a first-time checkup from medicann?
3. Since I'm only 20 and still in college at UC, is there any way for my college/parents to know about my MM card unless I tell them? I know that doctor-patient confidentiality is handled rather strictly among doctors, so I probably have nothing to worry about.
4. Does anyone know of any good dispensaries in the Santa Cruz-Bay Area-Sacramento area?

Thanks! :)

[Jasonincuritiba]

1. Just ask for a copy of your medical records from your most recent doctor, or go to college go to the campus health center and have the doctor write you a note say you have (insert medical condition). If you are taking any prescription drugs for your chronic headaches, just bring in the bottles to your MMJ doctor.
2. I think it was under $200, you can ask when you make your appointment for the exact amount.
3. There is no way for them to find out unless they find your Medicann card, everything is strictly confidential.
4. I like the Santa Cruz Patients Collective the best but I have only been there and Greenway Compassionate Relief.

[LedZeppelin]

Thank you very much! :D

By the way, do you know how much MM usually costs at the Santa Cruz Patients Collective and Greenway? I know prices vary as per quality, but how much would say an 1/8 cost? What about an ounce?

Thanks again. :)

[Jasonincuritiba]

Greenway only sells 1/8ths and larger, 1/8th of Erkel was $60. They do sell what they call "Old School" which is pretty low grade for pretty cheap.
SCPC sells grams, 1/16ths, 1/8ths, and up. 1/8th runs between $55-60 , I definitely think SCPC has high grade strains as they claim.
Oz where pretty pricey at SCPC with the cheapest running at $450, you don't get the dealer buy more pay less discount.

[kvSCstoned]

Get a copy of your medical records. Schedule an appoitment at medicann if the doc feels you have a valid reason for medicinal cannabis she will write you a script. $125 for appt at medicann on seabright. i got mine renewed 2 weeks ago

Greenway is good for edibles. They sell 1/8s only like above poster said 45-65 1/8

SCPC sells half eighths and eighths better quality then Greenway IMO

Check out the california norml site

canorml.org

[painretreat]

Any info about the WAMM festival there on the 27th?? :thumbsup: PR

[permastone]

If you go up to the bay area the dispenceraries are all over the area from S. F. to Santa Cruz. Go to down town Santa Cruz.

[skunkgrower]

u can go up to oakland to nor cal health with no records tell the dr your probs tell him u dont want to take pain meds and u most likely get ur script for 125 then go around the block to the ocbc pay 25 get your card and u are leagal 1/8s in oakland between 40 to 50

[medpotcrisis]

u can go up to oakland to nor cal health with no records tell the dr your probs tell him u dont want to take pain meds and u most likely get ur script for 125 then go around the block to the ocbc pay 25 get your card and u are leagal 1/8s in oakland between 40 to 50

You'd be stupid to pay $125 for what would essentially be a worthless piece of paper (i.e. not legally valid). Check out the California Medical Board's Guidelines for doctors that recommend Medical Marijuana:


Welcome to the Medical Board of California - Medical Marijuana (http://www.mbc.ca.gov/medical_marijuana.html)

These accepted standards are the same as any reasonable and prudent physician would follow when recommending or approving any other medication, and include the following:


History and good faith examination of the patient.
Development of a treatment plan with objectives.
Provision of informed consent including discussion of side effects.
Periodic review of the treatment's efficacy.
Consultation, as necessary.
Proper record keeping that supports the decision to recommend the use of medical marijuana.


In other words, if physicians use the same care in recommending medical marijuana to patients as they would recommending or approving any other medication, they have nothing to fear from the Medical Board.

Here are some important points to consider when recommending medical marijuana:


Although it could trigger federal action, making a recommendation in writing to the patient will not trigger action by the Medical Board of California.
A patient need not have failed on all standard medications, in order for a physician to recommend or approve the use of medical marijuana.
The physician should determine that medical marijuana use is not masking an acute or treatable progressive condition, or that such use will lead to a worsening of the patient's condition.
The Act names certain medical conditions for which medical marijuana may be useful, although physicians are not limited in their recommendations to those specific conditions. In all cases, the physician should base his/her determination on the results of clinical trials, if available, medical literature and reports, or on experience of that physician or other physicians, or on credible patient reports. In all cases, the physician must determine that the risk/benefit ratio of medical marijuana is as good, or better, than other medications that could be used for that individual patient.
A physician who is not the primary treating physician may still recommend medical marijuana for a patient's symptoms. However, it is incumbent upon that physician to consult with the patient's primary treating physician or obtain the appropriate patient records to confirm the patient's underlying diagnosis and prior treatment history.
The initial examination for the condition for which medical marijuana is being recommended must be in-person.
Recommendations should be limited to the time necessary to appropriately monitor the patient. Periodic reviews should occur and be documented at least annually or more frequently as warranted.
If a physician recommends or approves the use of medical marijuana for a minor, the parents or legal guardians must be fully informed of the risks and benefits of such use and must consent to that use.


In addition, you should be aware that the doctor at Norcal has quite a reputation; his recommendations are not accepted in many locations, and he is currently under probation with the Medical Board for some disgusting things he did to a female patient.

Prohibition Against Treating Female Patients (http://nofemalepatients.com/)

North Coast Journal April 26, 2007 : ON THE COVER : Prescription for trouble (http://www.northcoastjournal.com/042607/cover0426.html)

[DdC222]

Federal Court Rules Against Federal Subversion
of State Medical Marijuana Laws
For the first time, a court has recognized that a concerted effort by the federal government to sabotage state medical marijuana laws violates the U.S. Constitution. While California's landmark 1996 medical marijuana law has mostly been upheld by the state's courts, after the U.S. Supreme Court's unfavorable ruling in 2005 it appeared the sun may have been setting on medical marijuana reform in the federal courts. full story (http://cannabisculture.com/articles/5264.html)

Top Cop Office Releases MMJ Guidelines

Top Doc Office Doing Stake Outs and SWAT raids

The citizens state initiatives rule, over city, county and individual politicops, sorry Jer, your wasting more tax bucks when the budget is cutting off jobs and services as it is. 215 is for the citizens to not be criminalized, it is the Compassionate Use Act not the Medicinal Marijuana Act. For any amount required, private matter between the citizen and their sovereignty. You can call it doctor patient confidentiality but "Health Provider" and "caregiver" are determined by the "patient" Putting healthy users, preventing illness in cages to get sick enough to be quasi-legal is border line wingnut.

No civil society should ever need a law to keep sick people from cages. It's beyond reason to cage someone finding a break from their daily torment getting through the pain and symptoms. Caging anyone for what Nixon's own Commission recommended decriminalizing while he disposed of Science and flat out lied to even include cannabis as a schedule#1 narcotic is criminal. Any "doctor" doesn't see that is not doing no harm and therefore should be removed from any kangaroo medical board.

"The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis."
-- Willie Nelson - Musician, Biodiesel Entrepreneur

215 has been opposed by physician politicians and their AMA blackmail Insurance groups, white powder pushers and everything with a badge since we gathered signatures. It has been abused by every copshop in California at one time or another. This has nothing whatsoever to do with cops. The Media is guilty of spreading hate speech and gossip, along with their talking heads. Trying to incite psychological and/or physical harm on a US citizen, terrorizing citizens with this constant barrage of attacks and defamation. One day the most frail of us have security in knowing their relief is available, the next some elected official or subordinate with a badge needs to make life easier to catch them and cage them. Illegally relieving symptoms and stress? What in tarnation has this society come too? NO ID required, no prescription, no signing your life with the state when they pass the kyndbuds and go straight for the computer records of the patients. It's a vegetable, let it go... DdC

â?�There's some good stuff in there for us to efficiently punish people who are abusing the law,â?�
-- District Attorney Paul Gallego

Dr. Mollie Fry gets 5 ******* Years! MM (http://tinyurl.com/3mbxyf)

D.E.A.th Targets LA.jpg 510x320 (http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/5/5446.jpg)

DEA terrorizes Los Angeles next with their 'museum' exhibit (http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/2008/09/02.html#a3001)
DWR: Tuesday, September 2, 2008

DEA Targets America (http://www.deatargetsamerica.com)

400 agents x $60/hr... (http://drugwarrant.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1213)

Blessed is the Police State? (http://drugwarrant.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4115#4115)
Exporting DEAmocracy

Journey for Justice Pedaling for Pot (http://drugwarrant.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=172)

872,721 marijuana arrests in 2007 Inhaling or Not (http://drugwarrant.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4122#4122)

Marijuana Arrests For Year 2006 â?? 829,625 (http://www.ornorml.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=3123)

Tops Record High...
Nearly 15 Percent Increase Over 2005

YEAR * ARRESTS
2006 * 829,625
2005 * 786,545
2004 * 771,608
2003 * 755,187
2002 * 697,082
2001 * 723,627
2000 * 734,498
1999 * 704,812
1998 * 682,885
1997 * 695,200
1996 * 641,642
1995 * 588,963
1994 * 499,122
1993 * 380,689
1992 * 342,314
1991 * 287,850
1990 * 326,850

Disparity By Geography (http://www.sentencingproject.org/Admin/Documents/publications/dp_drugarrestreport.pdf) Ryan S. King
pdf: May 2008 The War on Drugs in Americaâ??s Cities

By 2003, African Americans were arrested for drug offenses at a rate that was 238% higher than whites, which translates into African Americans being 3.4 times more likely to be arrested for a drug offense than whites.

Table 3- Drug Arrests per 100,000 by Race, 1980-2003

RACE 1980 2003 GROWTH
WHITE 387 658 70%
BLACK 684 2221 225%

Note. that's the Compassionate Use Act
not the Medicinal Marijuana Act...

Safe Access Now Online Handbook (http://www.safeaccessnow.net/fedmmj.htm)
Cannabis Yields and Dosage (Part 1)
By Chris Conrad (c) 2004 , 2005, 2007

HS 11362.5. (a) (http://www.chrisconrad.com/expert.witness/cahscodetext.html#11362.5) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

* has been recommended by a physician
* person's health would benefit
* or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.
* no physician in this state shall be punished,
Dr. Mollie Fry gets 5 ******* Years! MM (http://tinyurl.com/3mbxyf)
* Illegal possession and cultivation of marijuana,
shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver
* upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician
* HS 11362.71. (a) (1) The department shall establish and maintain a voluntary program for the issuance of identification cards to qualified patients who satisfy the requirements of this article and
voluntarily apply to the identification card program.
* "Qualified patient" means a person who is entitled to the protections of Section 11362.5, but who does not have an identification card issued pursuant to this article.
* It shall not be necessary for a person to obtain an identification card in order to claim the protections of Section 11362.5.
* A qualified patient or a person with an identification card
* Any individual who provides assistance
* A designated primary caregiver who transports, processes, administers, delivers, or gives away marijuana for medical purposes
* (a) Subject to the requirements of this article, the individuals specified in subdivision (b) shall not be subject, on that sole basis, to criminal liability.

This 6-inch diameter canister held 254.89 grams (http://www.safeaccessnow.net/images/indcanisterbig.jpg) of federal medical marijuana for an IND patient, a typical monthly supply mailed from the federal cannabis research garden in Mississippi.

An indoor garden: More harvests, but smaller plants

Outdoors: With a typical growing season that lasts from March or April into September or October, outdoor plants have a long time to grow and usually much more space to spread out, so they tend to be larger.

Half the plants grown from cannabis seed are males that are worthless for marijuana.

100 square feet of mature female canopy from seed or clone is harvested at one time outdoors, with a total yield of ±50 ounces (3.1 pounds) of bud to last the entire year.

http://boards.cannabis.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=202936&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1222638881

[TheLastIndian]

My vote goes to scpc. I don't think you'll be disappointed