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$6000.00 a month salary to ruin it for everyone but your own dispensaries, was it worth the public shame Mr. Brown?
Boycott Josh Stanley & Matt Brown and every other dispensary mentioned. sleep with dogs you get fleas!;)
Dear Senator Romer,
I am writing to tell you how deeply you personally have shaken the strong belief I had in Government's willingness to listen to the people and to try and make right sometimes bad laws that are passed in the name of the People but that it wind up hurting the People. That strong belief was forged by your father Governor Roy Romer in 1991 when he stepped in personally and got immediate results in my Workers Compensation Case. Workers Compensation was a hot issue at the time after a News story broke with different a video of a guy jet skiing while collecting Workers Compensation. The State Legislature in a knee jerk, we have to act quickly mentality ( much like their mentality regarding MMJ today) a very bad law was passed that penalized truly injured workers by making it very much harder to get Workers Compensation, but also drastically reduced that compensation when once the court ruled in their Favor.
At the time I worked for Boulder Community Hospital, I was injured the 1st time in 1989 and was sent to a unit of BCH at the Mapelton Center called Occupational Health. They refused to order the proper tests needed and I went through years of non-treatment other then physical therapy and large doses of anti-inflammatory drugs. I was re-injured in 1990 while performing CPR on a patient again I was never given the proper tests but instead was refereed to a psychiatrist because they said the pain was in my head. I went through another year of this meanwhile my condition worsened and got to a point where my left arm was rendered useless. I had costant numbness in that arm lost 50% of it's strength, and I was in agonizing pain. I finally took the matter into my own hands. I waiting for Occupation Heath Clinic to close and went to the emergency room and saw Dr. John Carter and begged him for a MRI. John told me that he would catch allot of heat for ordering an MRI but at this point he concurred that something was veryobviously wrong even to the untrained eye. I had the MRI done that evening around 7:00PM, I received a call from the physician at the Clinic Dr. Branstein at 8:00AM. The good doctor informed me I needed to find a nuero-surgeon in 3 days. I asked what was the sudden urgency and he told me that my disc between C5 & C6 was completely ruptured and had crushed my spinal sac completely and that if it moved another millimeter I would become quadroplegic. I had the surgury and was discharged to my home where I lived alone in the Mountains.
This is where your father comes in, between the two injuries I had working at the Hospital BCH had changed their Workman's Compensation Insurance Carrier and now both insurance companies were refusing any responsibility for either injury. Therefore they refused to pay any of my wages while recovering from surgery ( Yes the hospital had me working full time before the surgery with a ruptured disc ). My lawyer at the time Mark Simons called me and told me to apply for any type of public assistance, food stamps, welfare because this was a very bad scenario and could be held up in the courts for well over a year. At his point I turned to my State Representative Dorothy Rupurt who listened to my story and agreed that the State had gone way overboard on the new Workman's Compensation Law and it really hindered any legal recourse by legitimate injured workers as myself by drastically changing the rules in favor of the insurance companies. And perhaps there shoulad have been more focus on going after & punishing the people that were committing fraud and other crimes instead of overhauling the system. She gave me your fathers number. I dialed it and Governor Roy Romer answered it I was in shock that I had gotten directly through to the Governor. I repeated my story to Gov. Romer and he also agreed it was very bad legislation that had unintended consequences that none of them foresaw. He assured me he would do what he could for me and would work hard to restore workers rights when injured.
The next day I received a call from my attorney Mr. Simons, he said " I don't know what happened but I just received a call from Boulder Community Hospital. They are not accepting any responsibility for your injury but they have to agreed to pay your wages until this is settled in court, I have never had this happen before". I told my attorney I thought I knew why but I would keep that to myself for now. Your Dad saw a law that he was pressured into signing because of being caught up in media hype. And most likely intoxicated by that media hype as much as the other legislators were. But he recognized it was bad and helped those individuals he could help and worked hard to try and fix the unintended consequences on that Law. And allthough we never got the worker's rights back and have one of the worst Worker's Compensation Laws in the Country I always respected Governor Romer for admitting he was wrong and trying to right the wrongs. And the fact that he took the time to listen to a EKG Tech that was injured on the job to me was impressive and I have never forgot it. He never talked down to me or told me what he thought I wanted to hear, he just spoke the truth and followed it up with action. There were many things Governor Romer did that I disagreed with, but I have an appreciation to him I can never repay. Not only getting me paid when the "Big Corporate Money" was against me, but inspiring me to be active and speak to my representatives, write my President when I agree and disagree with their policies. But you have soured that belief that Goverment is for the people. And really have opened my eyes to the fact that Government today in the 21st Century is for Big Money and Big Corporations. And that you folks ( Politicians) are to busy putting cash in your pockets or stroking your own ego to be bothered by your constituents the citizens of Colorado.
I do thank you for one thing though, not for bankrupting me and putting me out of business but the fact that you have given me a new mission in life. I am going to work everyday to see that you are not re-elected or elected to any other office you seek in this State or your next. We have formed a group to vote out all of you that voted for this knee-jerk legislation that does nothing to help the patients or the State of Colorado. We will be having a State-Wide Media campaign to counter all the lies and slanted reports in the Media regarding Medical Marijuana and Industrial Hemp' while Your 70 plus page assault on patient rights goes through the courts.And Finally to get complete legalization of Medical Cannabis & Industrial Hemp on the Ballot in 2012, thank you you are a great motivator. Once we defeat this in the courts I look forward to using my 20 years of experience in the Medical field as a EKG Tech, EEGT, EMT-I, CRT & RPSGT to good use as well my years many years cultivating Cannabis and the knowledge I have gained over those year and I wear this badge all you "Drug War Advocates" gave me "Marijuana Possession Felon" with great pride.
Very Sincerely,
Mark Rose RPSGT
Grateful Meds
box 667
Nederland Colorado 80466
303 258 7611:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
Bravo Mark!! I would certainly like to see his reply ( if there is one )
Indeed, Bravo! I wish many others in our community had the ethics and REAL comPASSION like you do! I can't wait to hear back from you when you get my msgs
j
Humm I may have got some bad information.
After calling 8 Rivers they claim to know him but say he is not the owner.
I do believe Wanda is part owner and is also part of the Josh/Matt/Romer love triangle.
If, 8 Rivers has not been a part of this, please do NOT boycott them. We don't need anymore innocent victumes in this situation.
j
I'm not saying boycotting Wanda is the right call, but you can clearly see she was involved with CMMR from that article. She and Scott are good people and I think her only fault in this whole thing is lending her name to an organization she didn't really have the time to oversee.
Let there be no doubt Wanda is a huge supporter of the bill. From the article comments:
>>>Wanda James says:
What do patients want? No regulation? No oversite as to who is selling MMJ? No accounting to the State how much money is passing hands? No over site as to who is growing and moving MMJ?
Before we argue, let's get an exact answer to what patients want, that they didn't get?
Wanda James says:
Well, Bobbie, what patients' constitutional rights were violated?
I am just asking what did the patients want that they did not get? I am a patient and as of today i can buy MMJ from any dispensary in Colorado.
Let's talk facts here people, not emotional responses. The police come into my restauarant every now and then and check to see if my liquor is locked up and my bar is operating correctly.
Did you think that would not happen in this industry? If you did, why would you think that? Name one legal industry that is not regualted. Name ONE! Doctors are regulated, restuarants a regulated. The MMJ business is regulated. I am sorry that this upsets you. But as a society we are all regulated and their will be rules.
And BTW, I didn't throw thousands of dollars anywhere. Let's talk facts, not emotional "gotchas".
Is the bill perfect, no it is not. Is it a start, yes, it is. The business owners are the ones under the gun, not the patients.<<<
She seems to know exactly what the patients want huh? The bottom line to me is she is a businesswoman. To her, how this bill affects patients is second to how this bill affects her dispensary! It's obvious. I guarantee if there were 1-2 provisions on there that Apothecary couldn't meet she'd be doing a complete 180 ;)
I don't think she's a devilwoman as some seem to be claiming. But I also don't think her and her husband care about patients as much as they may claim. Nothing wrong with being a businessman/businesswoman. But it's nice for the patients know that. Some prefer to keep their business with the artisans...
On another note, dispensary owners crafting dispensary regulations (which seems to be basically what happened) just doesn't seem like a good idea to me. What patient/caregiver representation was present at these lobbying/legislation/whatever-the-fuck-they-are meetings? That's where things went wrong it seems
Anybody that couldn't see what these two were up to shame on them. I know from my 1st conversation I had with Josh Stanley waiting to get into the Health Departments emergency meeting last July. From the start he made clear his intentions and what he hoped to accomplish. I told him then I wanted no part of it and that I thought his approach would only hurt the small guy especially the patients. Anybody that signed up with these guys were either conned or let their greed get the best of them!:wtf:Quote:
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The weasels ripped my flesh...
Mark,
Great letter. The sad part is the sorry will more then likely never read it, if he does he will not care. Time will show that after Romers big bill is up in running that only big money backed dispencaries will be in business. I would be shocked to find out that one of this big money making dispencaries did not give Romer a big fat pay check towards his election and this is his way of paying them back
By the way what is Romer email address? I sent him a nasty email to the only one I could find and it came back stating the email address was no good
Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. I had a buddy of mine draw it up for Mile High MMJ Patient Magazine.
Welcome to Mile High MMJ Patient
Our current issue is out now here in the metro area.
Please feel free to email the picture to anyone. Romer will get a copy when we drop off the magazines to the capitol.
heres the whole problem, everybody is taking care of themselves. its the me first attitude and you need only drive down the street to figure it out. you signal, noone lets you in. you look for a parking spot and some c**t rips you off. all i look for anymore is some sanity. i hate to say it but most people dont deserve to live. all they do is f up everything. let real human beings breath air for once you greedy pieces of shit or maybe a good ole fashioned ass kicken is on the way. God knows our EMPLOYEES (politicians, law enforcement, justice system) need a big ole kick in the arse. lazy piece of shit traitors that get paid too much. they really arent necessary anymore.
meded is a hell of a drug...d. chapelle who you fu&*in OJ... AWWW i knew it
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