Archive for July, 2009

What we won, before ‘Moderates’ bartered away our rights

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Here is what the voters of California were told, in the official 1996 Voter’s Handbook, and this is what they believed would happen if they voted “yes.”
From the Prop. 215 Ballot Arguments:
“Proposition 215 does not require a written prescription. Anyone with the “oral recommendation or approval by a physician” can grow, possess or smoke marijuana. [...]

How Radicals Saved The Medical Marijuana Movement

Monday, July 13th, 2009

There is an attempt these days to rewrite the history of Medical Marijuana to peddle the notion that it was the Moderates who authored and passed Prop. 215, California’s historic voter initiative to legalize the medical use of marijuana.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Back in 1995-96, while the initiative was being written, medical [...]