Quote Originally Posted by redtails
I agree with your proposal, except for #2 to an extent...Do you know how many hundreds of thousands of us have drug convictions, let alone any felonies? What about second chances, that's why people are released afterall instead of kept in jail/prison or killed. I myself have 2 possession charges, paraphenalia, and a DUI from weed just because I was a stupid kid and was unlucky. All are misdemeanors except the DUI because yeah motor vehicles and impairment can kill. Since then I've "grown up", but the blemishes are still there. Now I don't really want to dispense/deal or really even smoke it much if at all because that's a shady area for me & I'm not one of those that NEED to smoke, but I LOVE growing and would love it to be legal so I can become a caregiver for someone that needs it and be able to grow again. Just my 2 cents, your proposal just seems a bit too strict but government always throws in nice loopholes anyways...
yes, but on the same note,its a PROVEN FACT that generally people who are convicted of felonies involving drugs generally will fall back into the wrong end anyway. as far as a "caregiver" situation goes, unless the person your caring for lives in your home and you are DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR CARE , it isnt going to fly anyway as the counties are changing their tunes in that respect. IMHO if a person has been convicted of a drug offese or felony, they have no business working in or owning a dispensary, ESPECIALLY if their felony was the result of a DRUG CONVICTION. in that situation, that looks like all they are doing is trying to find a legal way to do what they got convicted for anyway, which if im not mistaken, most drug felons arent allowed to even be AROUND drugs,period. same as someone convicted of a felony cant own,possess or even legally live in the same house with an accessible firearm. furthermore, in most cases,after a certain amount of time, most felony convictions can be exponged from a persons record if they have not gotten into any other trouble since.

illegal pot dealers pot dealers are "businessmen"?....i guess so are meth lab operators, meth dealers, crack and cocaine dealers,ect right?.....ILLEGAL IS ILLEGAL, PERIOD. doesnt make any difference if you "did your time", if your a convicted felon, you have LOST CERTAIN RIGHTS, thats the law. most convicted felons i know own their own businesses, and thats good for them, but it doesnt change the facts at all, they were convicted of a felony. if you think youve "done your time" and everythings everything, wh dont ya head on down to the nearest courthouse, pick up the papers and petition the court to expunge your record? doesnt matter how ya try to sugar coat it. what needs to be done is any and all connection with illegal activity needs to be taken completely out of the industry. if that takes rejecting convicted felons from working or owning dispensaries then so be it. i will tall you this. if california voters had the inclination at the time they passed 420 and 215 that the street level dopeheads were gonna come out of the woodwork and break the law under the premis that they were being "legal now" they wouldnt have ever passed shit. the problem is that all of these drug convicted felons are now playing legal when there not. all you have to do is read the damn papers and postings online, and youll see , just like the link i posted that thousands of these so-called dispensaries are operating illegally and being operated by known felons and drug dealers. problem is, when the initiatives passed, every pothead in california thought "h, fuck!..im gonna get a recommendation!" because there were no actual regulations put into place to regulate whos doing what. what i find funny also ( and the main reason i brought the whole felony thing up) is that its generally the dispensaries that have COINVICTED FELONS either owning it or working there that are grey-area getting busted and shut down. for the most part, all of the guys i know who are on the level and HAVENT been convicted of something are the ones who are operating on the level and NOT getting hammered. whats that say to ya?

i emailed a whole list like the one i posted to the shasta county board of supervisors. it wouldnt suprise me if before its done at least a few of my ideas werent implemented.

redtails, do you have a drs recomendation?....you mentioned in your post you dont "need" to smoke.
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