9 news sucks again - Criminals to be weeded out of medical marijuana centers

I am saying it's not surprising at all that they have gathered this info. that's what the government does.

Remember the raid on Full Spectrum Labs?

it has been fairly chill as of late.

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Originally Posted by copobo

I am saying it's not surprising at all that they have gathered this info. that's what the government does.

Remember the raid on Full Spectrum Labs?

it has been fairly chill as of late.

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I thought that was resolved as business as usual? My understanding was that when FSL applied for whatever license they applied for, the DEA comes to inspect the facility.

I believe the dea just raided a collective in mendo..

Point being this info mining is bullshit, I don't know about you but stuff like this seems on the verge of Orwellian society. If the Dea used as much funding to eradicate other drugs as they do cannabis, I don't think many would have a problem with what they do, but there is most certainly a man behind the curtain as far as marijuana prohibition is concerned.

Anyone want to play a game of monopoly???:thumbsup:

In many ways, don't we already live in an "Orwellian society"? I don't see how that's uniquely germane to the DEA.

Medical Marijuana,US Government holds key patents for Marijuana as drug treatment,US Patent 6630507

Medical Marijuana,US Government holds key patents for Marijuana as drug treatment,US Patent 6630507

Medical Marijuana,US Government Patent 6630507
On the eve of voting for the passage of medical marijuana and decriminalization of marijuana in several states including California this year.It seems our good US of A Government has been preparing since 2003 to cash in if marijuana is ever legalized as a drug treatment.The USA Department of Health and Human Servicesholds the rights to US Patent 6630507 - Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants

The patent claims that "Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia."

The patent was obtained in October of 2003.
Cannabinoids, for those who were wondering, are a group of chemical compounds found in marijuana that are also referred to as terpenophenolic compounds. One specific cannabinoid compound found in cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol, more commonly known as THC. This substance gives marijuana its psychoactive effects.The US government may hold this patent, but that will not stop their officials from consistently denying the benefits of medical marijuana. An FDA spokesperson, for instance, has claimed that "smoked marijuana has no currently accepted or proven medical use in the United States and is not an approved medical treatment." It makes you wonder why the U.S. government is so unwilling to admit that marijuana has some valid medical properties. It seems unlikely that there is a popularity issue, especially when 65% of Americans believe that doctors should be allowed to prescribe marijuana .
Since one part of the government applied for the patent of medical marijuana, and another part of the government approved that patent, it seems logical to conclude that the federal government knows that marijuana has some valid medical drug treatment properties.

Just wondering if this makes any difference ?


Q: If my record is expunged, do I ever have to admit that I have a criminal record?

A: In most states, and with some limited exceptions, after your records are sealed or expunged, you may truthfully say that you were never arrested, charged, or accused of a crime. In the eyes of the law, the entire incident never happened. In most respects, a sealing or expungement restores you to the status you occupied before being arrested or charged.
You should be aware that the federal government doesn't have to honor the expungement, nor does an expungement of a conviction necessarily relieve a person from having to disclose it in an application for public office or on some professional license applications.

Their big thing is "If you lie, we will deny." Even if it isn't technically lying, they want to know EVERYTHING and telling them more shows you have nothing to hide.

Matt Cook's favorite email right now is: Disclose, disclose, disclose! If they find something, you're sol.

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State for Congress:

Taken from http://www.capitolhillblue.com/Aug19...ss1-081699.htm

Numbers from 1999:

* 29 members of Congress have been accused of spousal abuse.
* 7 have been arrested for fraud.
* 19 have been accused of writing bad checks.
* 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses.
* 3 have been arrested for assault.
* 71 have credit reports so bad they can't qualify for a
credit card.
* 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
* 8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
* 21 are current defendants in lawsuits.
* And in 1998 alone, 84 were stopped for drunk driving, but released after they claimed Congressional immunity.

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Now--now--you know the laws only apply to the citizens and not the politicians--LOL.

But--realistically--previous-hard-drug offenders/rapist/burgarlar's/assaulter's etc. really should not be owners nor employees of medical marijuana centers.

If we want this to work in Colorado-criminal-records for dispensory owners and their employees have to be clean as a whistle--just like in other industry where money (like casino's) is involved.

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Just wondering if this makes any difference ?


Q: If my record is expunged, do I ever have to admit that I have a criminal record?

A: In most states, and with some limited exceptions, after your records are sealed or expunged, you may truthfully say that you were never arrested, charged, or accused of a crime. In the eyes of the law, the entire incident never happened. In most respects, a sealing or expungement restores you to the status you occupied before being arrested or charged.
You should be aware that the federal government doesn't have to honor the expungement, nor does an expungement of a conviction necessarily relieve a person from having to disclose it in an application for public office or on some professional license applications.

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Yes--because for certain they will find it. So disclose it--and tell them it was exponged. Not telling them will raise a lot of eyebrows and they may deny your application because of it.

Here's a for instance. Casino's on all employees have to have a criminal background check. My husband is 60+ in years. He was working on a casino in secure areas so they asked that he get a license to work in those secure areas. He went into apply thinking nothing of it. And the lady behind the desk said--"sir" I am certain you probably don't remember this but you were arrested when you were 17 years old over a minor offense. No charges were brought--nor did he even have to go to court over it.--LOL. He admitted he remembered it when she mentioned it too him--but was shocked that they can go back that far with a push of a button. They went ahead and issued him a license.

"Smoking marijuana in a society which has declared marijuana illegal makes you a criminal, subject in many states and also federally to imprisonment as a felon, and everyone who smokes marijuana under the present system is (or quickly becomes) aware of the dire consequences of this innocent act. Even if you arenâ??t ever arrested, jailed, tried or imprisoned, you still live under constant fear of being busted by the ubiquitous narcotics police, you are subject to having your phone tapped, your person and possessions (starting with your home) pawed over and ripped apart by these goons and their uniformed accomplices, your privacy subject to violation by the police at any moment of the night or day. And if you do fall into the clutches of the police and their associates in the prosecutorâ??s office and judicial chambers and jails and penitentiaries, you are thrown into a world you would never have thought could exist in the kind of country youâ??d always thought America was. For the courts and the jails are the carefully-disguised cesspools of American society â?? only those who are branded as criminals ever find out how hopelessly vile and perverted these institutions are. And in the past few years thousands and thousands of young people who would otherwise have gone through their lives as my parents did, believing in the garbage and lies dished out by the â??legalâ?� authorities about their wonderful justice and their noble penal institutions (they call them â??correctional facilitiesâ?�), are being exposed to the grim realities of American life by virtue of their use of the killer weed marijuana."
(John Sinclair 1971)