Enemy of the State
Posted March 18, 2016 by Skunk Pharm Research,LLC in Projects.
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Ladies and Gentlemen,
Where does gross ignorance stop and personal agendas and corruption start? How are we to tell the difference when the conflicting interests are so blatant?
Recent changes in Oregon’s Cannabis laws this week have made unlicensed extractions a Class B Felony; until permits have been issued by the Oregon Health Authority and or the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
OHA Medical processors applications are not expected to be available until April, 1 and the licensing process itself is expected to take several months because the people who make the rules are drug warriors who are still fighting the evil weed…
The only segment of the market this affects currently are medical patients; who until now, had safe access to their medicine.
Where did our rights to use medical cannabis, which us Oregon taxpayers voted for, and what provisions have been made by the rule makers to meet our medical needs until the rule makers find it convenient to issue license’s?.
The many Oregon “extract” companies now have to switch to using methods trivially defined as “concentrating” rather than “extracting”.
The basic breakdown of what is a “concentrate” VS “extract”
A “Cannabinoid concentrate” means a substance obtained by separating cannabinoids from
marijuana by:
(a) A mechanical extraction process;
(b) A chemical extraction process using a nonhydrocarbon-based or other solvent, such
as water, vegetable glycerin, vegetable oils, animal fats, isopropyl alcohol or ethanol; or
(c) A chemical extraction process using the hydrocarbon-based solvent carbon dioxide,
provided that the process does not involve the use of high heat or pressure; or
(6) “Cannabinoid edible” means food or potable liquid into which a cannabinoid concentrate,
cannabinoid extract or dried marijuana leaves or flowers have been incorporated.
So Dry sift, bubble hash, glycerin tincture, pot butter, ISO ALCOHOL and ETHANOL are considered concentrates and therefore legal to make at home without a license. However
the last two items on the list are by International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry’s definition, hydrocarbon solvents.
() “Cannabinoid extract” means a substance obtained by separating cannabinoids from marijuana
by:
(a) A chemical extraction process using a hydrocarbon-based solvent, such as butane, hexane or
propane;
(b) A chemical extraction process using the hydrocarbon-based solvent carbon dioxide, if the
process uses high heat or pressure; or
(c) Any other process identified by the commission, in consultation with the authority, by rule.
Soo… Wait they classified CO2 as a hydrocarbon-based solvent?
That certainly opens the door for a gross ignorance defense, because, CO2 obviously does not contain HYDROGEN!!! What do the rule makers think the letters CO2 stands for?
But wait, there’s more! There appears to be more than gross ignorance going on here. If we were legislating based on safety; it would be logical to put alcohols (IUPAC defined as Hydrocarbons) into the “extract” category, while removing CO2, which is not flammable or a hydrocarbon to the “concentrates” category.
Still explosions during prohibition are a matter of public record, so I don’t think the bill that Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed was ever intended to be about safety…
It specifically excluded alcohols that are quite flammable and have a track record of blowing up, while including CO2 which has an excellent safety record and is NOT FLAMMABLE!.
So why would they exclude alcohol and include CO2? One could only conclude that there is someone profiting from this nonsense.
So lets follow the money; who would make a profit from removing BHO and CO2 oil from the shelves?
I know of only one, the OLCC, because they profit from the sales of 190 proof everclear that all the extract companies are buying up right now! It has also given the drug warriors a tool to start throwing people in jail again which again the OLCC profits from.The OLCC is headed by the Klamath County District Attorney (aka: chief drug warrior) who’s career is advanced by prosecuting people for drugs crimes and peddling booze. How can that not be a conflict of interest and what are a District Attorneys hands doing on OMMP patients medicine? Didn’t Oregonians convey that measure 91 was NOT SUPPOSED TO AFFECT THE OMMP? But that was the OLCC’s rules commitee’s first order of business! They refused to move forward with making rules for adult use until the OMMP was thoroughly gutted! Transparency in Oregon’s government means more that openly rubbing abuse in our faces!
I think its high time to show the OHA and the OLCC the door where Cannabis is concerned! We should demand a new non biased regulatory authority that will make rules based on public safety, not profit and prejudice!
I encourage all of our Oregon Pharmers to start flooding the OLCC 541-210-8280, OHA 971-673-1234, and our State representatives with phone calls!
Joint Commitee on Marijuana legalization
Member Senator Lee Beyer 503-986-1706
Co-Chair Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick 503-986-1718
Co-Vice Chair Senate Republican Leader Ted Ferrioli Capitol Phone: 503-986-1950 District Phone: 541-490-6528
Member : Senator Jeff Kruse Capitol Phone: 503-986-1701
District Phone: 541-580-3276
Co-Vice Chair : Senator Floyd Prozanski Capitol Phone: 503-986-1704
District Phone: 541-342-2447
Member : Representative Peter Buckley Capitol Phone: 503-986-1405 District Phone: 541-488-9180
Member : Representative Ken Helm 503-986-1434
Co-Chair: Representative Ann Lininger 503-986-1438
Member : Representative Andy Olson Capitol Phone: 503-986-1415
District Phone: 541-967-6576
Co-Vice Chair : Representative Carl Wilson Capitol Phone: 503-986-1403
District Phone: 541-476-7896
let them know that we aren’t going to put up with their shenanigans anymore!
Call Kate Browns office
(503) 378-4582 and educate her about what she has signed and how sleazy and unprofessional the arrangement appears from this perspective!!
Pharmer Joe
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3-21-16
To the question of what is Graywolf’s reaction to all of this, it is, “Whoooooa! What just happened?”
Taking away established OMMP patient resources, with no provisions to cover their medical needs, bears public explanation.
Unless it can be shown that it was through ignorance, and is immediately corrected, I suggest it bears public investigation.
Let’s start with, “how can the medical needs of the OMMP patients be so casually brushed aside?” Are illustrious rule makers ignorant of the medical properties of cannabis, or do they just not believe them?
If they are ignorant, let’s educate them, but if they don’t believe, what are they doing on a board making medical decisions, because that ship has already sailed and it is a matter of international record that cannabis does in fact work for what OMMP patients daily use them for!!!!!!!
My next would be how are such grossly uninformed decisions being made, even if they are honorable and well intended?
Clearly someone is grossly uninformed to believe CO2 to be a hydrocarbon, and not know that it is so inert as to commonly be used in fire extinguishers to put out fires.
It appears to be an issue of perspective to me, and if life has taught me nothing else, it is that believing is seeing, and that the fish trap exist only because of the fish.
Looking at it from a medical perspective, how much sense does it make to deprive OMMP patients of the medicine that has proven effective for them and so what is the fish being sought?
Certainly not the rights, best interest, or medical needs of the OMMP patients and what this intermittent cut off gain for the overall picture?
I can see from a District Attorney’s perspective how OMMP blurs the battleground for their war on drugs, includes some abuse, and be highly concerned about the number of hydrocarbon extraction explosions starting to mount.
The fish trap however makes a rookie mistake of classifying CO2 as a hydrocarbon, when an average middle schooler can correctly identify as one carbon and two oxygen atoms, with no mention of hydrogen.
It also ignores that virtually all SCFE systems are professionally built because of the extreme requirements, and that there are SCFE CO2 machines that are certified as safe for use in other medical states, and all states for extracting other materials. SCFE CO2 extraction wasn’t invented by the cannabis community and is used internationally for extraction of a panoply of different food and pharmaceutical products.
Does this arm wave fiat include shutting down all of those operations as well, and laying off those folks???
The fiat further groups all hydrocarbon extractions together, ignoring that again there are professionally designed and built hydrocarbon extraction systems certified to meet ASME, NEC, IBC, and NFPA by 3rd party Registered Professional Engineers, certified by OR, WA, CO, NV, and MD.
Are rules makers unaware that it is the indoor open blasters that are blowing thing up, not the professionals using closed loop systems and operating them professionally.
That leaves open the question of what exactly is the District Attorney’s fish trap designed to do?
It certainly throws a monkey wrench into medical concentrate supplies. Is that by intent or ignorance and poor design?
It opens the door to fill the jails and confiscate the property of felons, who are otherwise good citizens, but former OMMP patients attempting to make their own concentrates, because their supply was cut off.
If they are a high dosage cancer patient, it is a life and death issue!
Alas, it does an extremely poor job of reducing the number of conflagrations, because those folks will not be professional, nor are they likely to have the resources to use professionally designed equipment for extraction or subsequent finishing.
It blocks the development of an Oregon micro-brew type cannabises businesses, to play to big pharma, and makes the targets clearer for a war on drugs.
One aspect that Pharmer Joe touched on, that I see as highly germane, and that is that we now have the head of the OLCC, with no medical credentials, involved in OMMP, and given the decision to exclude hydrocarbon and CO2 extractions, while allowing alcohol. that begs further analysis as a conflict of interest.
Lets therefore look at the issue from the head of OLCC’s perspective and examine the fish trap.
As Pharmer Joe noted, it clearly improves the bottom line at OLCC by dramatically increasing the sales of 190 proof.
But wait, lets peel that onion! So far only the ghastly price of highly taxed 190 proof has been mentioned, which I see as only the tip of the iceberg, because the assumption is made that it will be mostly recycled, but brothers and sisters I suggest you educate yourself regarding the Federal restrictions, and building codes for operating an ethanol still.
Apply for a permit to operate an ethanol still to emphasize my point. A set up for More accidents, raids, confiscations, and citizens in jail, but also more dependence on fresh OLCC supplies.
I guess in summary, it is too hard to tell poor research from perspective and ulterior motives and agendas, but the results are so horrific, that I’m actually floored that Governor Brown would tolerate such an obvious conflict of interest, in her, “transparent government”, or the indifference to the abuse of so many Oregon voters.
Let’s start by giving them all the benefit of the doubt, by educating them and giving them an opportunity to correct their mistakes. I agree with Joe that the best way to do that, is to call and write them, so they hear your voice and the sounds of reason.
That is what I’m doing!!
GW
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