GM refuses to pay States 1284 Ransom

[milehighmediman]

No Probem GM!

NOW it is back to 72 pages and the ammended it again to say the same thing for Primary Caregivers, your conviction must be 5 years or older.

This is like a rubber ball just bouncing all over the place.

Later

[Justabloke]

Rob has a non-profit already, right? Brian Vicente's ballot initiative looks like the most cohesive thing I've seen yet.

I've heard about Brian's initiative but I haven't seen it yet. You got a link RLC?

j

[GratefulMeds]

Dear Linda,


I want to thank you for all your work on trying to come up with some reasonable regulation regarding medical marijuana and the industry it has spawned. But I urge you to vote no on this bill in it's current form. All it will do is drive all of us small (mom &pop) dispensaries, and small caregiver operations out of business. This leaves open the door for big money and corporations like RJ Reynolds to take over the industry. RJ Reynolds has recently Trademarked several Marijuana Strain names (Trainwreck,OG Kush etc.). This bill will also create a black market on steroids that the likes of has never been seen in Colorado. This will only create a justice system nightmare and ruin many many lives. I do not believe this is what the voters intended when the passed amendment 20.
Why are we only punishing drug offenders? It seems as long as you raped, killed, robbed, embezzled or committed fraud over 5 years ago you can be in the Medical Marijuana Industry, but God forbid you got busted with marijuana during a unjust 40 year "War on Drugs". What is the logic here? Please vote no on this bill, please do not force me, the patients and many of my friends to go back underground for our medicine.


Sincerely,

Mark A. Rose RPSGT
Grateful Meds
PO Box 667
Nederland Colorado 80466
303 258 7703
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Thank you for your engagement in the legislative process. I did vote no on this. I believe the bill wasn't ready, so to speak, and that it would be harder to undo than to wait a few more months.
I believe we haven't seen the end of this policy area.
Thanks again.
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On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 6:32 PM, mark rose <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Linda,


I want to thank you for all your work on trying to come up with some reasonable regulation regarding medical marijuana and the industry it has spawned. But I urge you to vote no on this bill in it's current form. All it will do is drive all of us small (mom &pop) dispensaries, and small caregiver operations out of business. This leaves open the door for big money and corporations like RJ Reynolds to take over the industry. RJ Reynolds has recently Trademarked several Marijuana Strain names (Trainwreck,OG Kush etc.). This bill will also create a black market on steroids that the likes of has never been seen in Colorado. This will only create a justice system nightmare and ruin many many lives. I do not believe this is what the voters intended when the passed amendment 20.
Why are we only punishing drug offenders? It seems as long as you raped, killed, robbed, embezzled or committed fraud over 5 years ago you can be in the Medical Marijuana Industry, but God forbid you got busted with marijuana during a unjust 40 year "War on Drugs". What is the logic here? Please vote no on this bill, please do not force me, the patients and many of my friends to go back underground for our medicine.


Sincerely,

Mark A. Rose RPSGT
Grateful Meds
PO Box 667
Nederland Colorado 80466
303 258 7703




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Senate District 26
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[copobo]

we're working our way through our block of folks to call, should be finished this afternoon.

[GratefulMeds]

we're working our way through our block of folks to call, should be finished this afternoon.

way to go, we are also almost there. can you get a hold of cozigzag I will email the info

[GratefulMeds]

Boulder County considers enacting medical marijuana rules - Boulder Daily Camera

[cowgirl1]

Everyone caregivers, patients, dispencaries everyone needs to copy and paste these email address an email your state rep and let them know if they do not untie the hands of the caregivers and allow the caregivers to work with the dispencaries that we together as one will not vote for them and will help anyone that runs for office to get them out.

PEOPLE WE NEED TO STAND TOGETHER. The vast majority of residence of Colorado want legal marijuana.....we control alot of votes and it is time we write these state reps and show them we will stand together and vote them out of office.

In my email to them I just wrote untie the hands of the caregiver and allow them to work with the dispencaries or lose my vote and every vote I can find..

COPY AND PASTE THESE INTO YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS AND EMAIL THEM. Come on people it will not take two mins to fight for YOUR RIGHTS!

If anyone can copy and paste the email address of the state senator please add them so when can write them also.

ALSO A BIG ONE WE ALL NEED TO WRITE AND THAT IS THE GOV...ANYONE HAVE HIS EMAIL ADDRESS????

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

[GratefulMeds]

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 beleif 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 laws 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:

[denverbear]

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 beleif 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 laws 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:

very strong and very insiteful reply...it will be interesting to see if he responds to this letter.

thank you for what you are trying to get accomplished.

[GratefulMeds]

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