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Calbunn - This is all somewhat disturbing news, and yet not totally surprising. I'm sure that it is totally open to eventual abuse, but I'm tempted to think that it's also a technique to simply baffle customers with new and improved bullshit. "Sorry sir, but the [totally re-programmable] robot says that you've used this much electricity and you can't prove otherwise. Computers don't lie, so cough up." Yeah, and neither do slot machines... I will be buying a TED meter as soon as I save my pennies.
What it made me think of, however, was a potential solution. You being an electrically oriented sort of dude, can you critique the idea? Basically I'm envisioning an expanded trickle charger for a motorcycle battery. You plug it into an outlet, a timer turns on the charger during user-defined hours and tops up the battery and then automatically shuts of when full (or when it gets more expensive again), your lights draw from the battery instead of the grid itself. I'm sure that voltage conversion comes into play along with a bunch of other issues, but it seems like it would kill two or more birds at once:
-Program it to charge when juice costs the least
-Avoid leaving a trail consisting of sketchy usage patterns
-Use only the electricity you need
-Doesn't have an RFID so it's invisible to the Electric Co
-Draws only a little juice at any given time so it doesn't stand out
I dunno how to deal with the whole RF appliance link issue, but maybe this erases it from the beginning. What say you?
Kathy Haddock, Boulder's senior assistant city attorney, said today that the city was not made aware of the federal letters ahead of time. But she said there's nothing the city can do to stop the enforcement.
"We don't have any standing to come in and stop the feds," she said. "They can do what they want."
Laura Kriho, director of the Boulder-based Cannabis Therapy Institute, said she was not surprised to hear about the feds taking action.
"I expected it all along and I feel sorry for the dispensaries, because they have walked into this trap," she said. "The state has lulled them into a false sense of security."
Kriho warned employees at Boulder dispensaries to consider switching careers, as the state likely will not back them if the feds raid the businesses.
"The feds don't care and the state doesn't care," she said. "The state is not going to testify in their favor.
it won't be long before going offgrid will be illegal and/or heavily regulated (permits, licenses, tax, etc)
Grow-op bylaw programs, which are based on provincial legislation, allow municipal inspectors to enter homes with abnormally high hydro usage - about 93 kilowatts per day or more - and look for evidence of illegal marijuana grow-ops for public safety reasons. Inspectors don't have to find grow-ops, but if they find supposed residual evidence, such as high mould readings, they levy search fees and order repairs. If homeowners don't comply, homes are tagged under the bylaw and effectively condemned as unsafe, and unsellable.
According to proponents, the bylaws have been phenomenally successful in driving pot production out of the Lower Mainland.
My reason for tracking the AZ case here is that once implemented the licensing, databasing, and 25 mile radius restriction for personal growers represents enforcement measures that will rely on those databases but also personal grows are easily monitored and reconciled by Time of Use metering.I don't know why everyone was so excited by the passage of Prop 203 in Arizona.
Passage of this law prohibits you from growing your own if you reside within a 25 mile radius (bullet point 12) of any licensed dispensary. So if this is enforced for all the revenue generating reasons the state has in mind then a licensed dispensary opening up would mean a peak into Time of Use meters to see unusual consumption patterns within the 25 mile radius.
In addition to shutting down the competition asset seizures are shared by the the agencies enforcing the 25 mile radius ban for the personal grower.
Gov Brewer is a champion of states rights. Except when she's not.
At the same time she sued, Governor Brewer halted the dispensary licensing process. The gist of the State’s claim was that state workers implementing the dispensaries could be in jeopardy of federal prosecution, because marijuana is illegal for all purposes under federal law. Governor Brewer tried to stay neutral, asking the federal court to decide whether the AMMA and federal law could co-exist.
In an ironic twist, the AMMA case landed before U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton, the same judge who struck down provisions of S.B. 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, ruling that it was pre-empted by federal law. The S.B. 1070 case is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
My reason for tracking the AZ case here is that once implemented the licensing, databasing, and 25 mile radius restriction for personal growers represents enforcement measures that will rely on those databases but also personal grows are easily monitored and reconciled by Time of Use metering.
AZ Gov Jan Brewer has taken opposite positions as to federal over the states authority relative to the AMMA and the immigration lawsuits.
1-5-12 US District Judge Susan Bolton threw out the AMMA case stating the court would not be giving guidance on the AMMA guidelines, that the state was 'sitting on the fence' and would have to take a position if federal law trumped the new AMMA law or not.
Gov Brewer has until Feb 3 2012 to file an amended lawsuit but Judge Bolton indicated there would not be anything in the amended suit that would create a situation where federal criminal prosecution of state employees who manage the implementation of AMMA licensing would occur so there would be no basis for the court to hear the states case.
http://arizoneout.blogspot.com/2012/01/federal-judge-wont-give-state-guidance.html
I really don't see Gov Brewers position on these two laws as being hypocritical. The January 5th ruling by Judge Bolton seems to set the stage whereby the fed has taken a position that the AZ suit does not rise to the level in which state employees would be prosecuted under federal law for aiding and abetting distribution of a substance found within the Controlled Substance Act. Gov Brewer will further reinforce that position under the amended complaint and the state will have cracked the door to a national federal precedent set for this industry which will include the 25 mile radius restriction of growing your own med.
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