NEVADA - we need support NOW for AB235

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If you are a Nevada resident, please follow this link and voice your opinion for AB235.



Select AB235 from the list, click the "for" option, and enter comments if you wish. You must fill out your address in order to process the form.

Please do not spam the form as that will be counter-productive. One response per person will be sufficient. Only current NV residents should respond. Please do not use a fake address -- the responses to this form are taken seriously and are sorted by constituency. This is one of the few ways we have as Nevadans to actively participate in our current legislative session, so please don't do anything to screw that up.


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AB235 revises the laws regarding the medical marijuana program in Nevada. Currently, it is somewhat expensive and you must apply for a state registration card in order to participate under the program. This proposed legislation would make registering optional, and would only require that you have written documentation from your physician that you are a medical marijuana patient.

The bill is necessary because the people that will be helped most by medical marijuana are not likely to have the time to wait for the state to approve their application, nor are they likely to have the hundreds of dollars required to even apply.
 
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Thanks for posting. It needs everyone in Nevada's support!!
 
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outdoorhydro

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As a citizen of Nevada, I encourage you to support AB235.

Regulations should be in place for patients to safely and legally obtain cannabis when prescribed by their doctors. If any registration process is needed, it should be for the sale and production of cannabis, not for individual patients to obtain approval for the government before medicating.

The current registration process for cannabis patients is long, expensive, and ultimately unnecessary.

Consider the recent news stories abound of sensitive data being leaked, not only from supposably secure government databases, but also the corporate world. In April of this year Sony admitted its entire database of 77 million subscribers' names, addresses, email addresses had been compromised in perhaps the biggest privacy breach of all time. This is Sony, a company whose annual profit rivals the entire Nevada state budget.

What sense of security does this offer Nevada citizens who are being asked for their private health information and being subjected to background checks before using cannabis?

Cannabis patients have a lot more on the line than PlayStation gamers. The federal government still considers the possession of a single cannabis plant to be a felony, despite a stream of studies supporting the medical benefits of cannabis and the overwhelming approval of voters in Nevada and other states. What happens if this database is compromised or confiscated? I can't imagine any benefits are worth this risk.

Leave the matter of a patient's health between him and his doctor and not his legislature. Please support AB235. It is a step in the right direction and Nevada's patients desperately need it.
 
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MIway

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There was a lot of talk about regulating the dip's... been outta the loop for a bit... what's the skinny with that? Anything ever come to fruition...?
 
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Everyone in NV should be all over this thread that's an awesome bill and huge leap forward for patients rights.
 
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It's a shame the bill was killed in committee. The committee chairwoman, April Mastroluca, claimed they didn't have time for it.

"We've been told that [the state Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services] will not hold a hearing, so we've been trying to put some pressure on. If that doesn't work, there may be other options available," says Dan Burdish, chief aide to Amargosa Valley Republican Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, whose measure, Assembly Bill 438, could establish the state's first-ever network of providers who could grow medical marijuana for patients. Burdish says committee chairwoman April Mastroluca, a Henderson Democrat, has said there's not enough time remaining in the legislative session to give a hearing to his boss' bill, or to a competing measure to from Las Vegas Democratic Assemblyman Paul Aizley. Mastroluca did not respond to several requests for comment. via: http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2011/04/15/news/local_news/iq_43522760.txt
Oh well maybe next session.
 
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