Timmahh
Well-Known Member
This is the Introduction of the Act I have crafted.
Read it, tell me and others what you think about the language. Let us forego the fact some think Michigan Voters wont Vote for it. So Far no one is screaming for MORE Government Taxes and Authority over ANYTHING! lol
Please read the Act, ask any questions you have about it you may have. But keep in mind, the only reason this can not be on the 2016 ballot is if you and those you know do not sigh the petition to put it on the ballot in 2016 when they are available.
Now the only real question is, If this Was on the 2016 Ballot, would you vote to put it into law.
Lets keep the conversation to that aspect of this. I know many believe it is a Big Step. but baby steps never get you anywhere, especially when there is always a bully there to push you back down.
We need to forget the nonsense of Baby Steps. the MMM Act was our Baby Step and the Bully was there just waiting. Thus this is the only Actual and True Redress we have in the State, as a State.
Over the next month, I think you will come to find the number of those in our own community that agree with this position is overwhelming.
This is only the Introduction, The actual Bill is in the next post.
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DRAFT A
Introduction:
Bring prohibition of any and all cannabis, and any cannabis associations to an end in its entirety, in our beloved state. Return cannabis to the pre 1937 non criminal status, when it was in the disciplines of Botany, Agriculture, and the daily use of the common person, requiring only their free will to do so for any non violent purposes, as they see fit. It is well past time we return cannabis back to when there was no criminality attached to this historically documented, multifaceted use, highly beneficial, and benign plant, in its entirety by ending Cannabis Prohibition in Michigan.
Michigan can do its honorable and responsible part to bring an end to the wasteful, brutal effects from the War on Drugs, and halt the increasing hostility that the War has had on our Michigan families, communities, personal, local, and state finances, not to mention the damage to them, and to the State, in and of itself.
Findings:
Cannabis can be traced back 5000 yrs as documented in historical Chinese records. Its uses are still today, as beneficial as they are as vast. Cannabis has been used as medicine, food, oils, lubricants, textiles, materials like canvas, rope, or naturally antibacterial cloth, fragrances, healing ointments, salves, fuels, fabrics, concrete, and much more. The etymology of the word canvas is derived from cannabis, as that is what canvas was manufactured from, and that canvas was turned into Sails for nearly all sea faring vessels prior to the invention of the steam engine. All the rope on these ships and used on land were made from hemp fibers. Cannabis was a staple of everyday life nearly everywhere on the face of the earth, and was ingested in one form or another by pretty much every man, women, and child since our existence.
From the industrial revolution era, cheap paper, plastics cellophane, and composites have been derived from Cannabis.
(https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/201105/history-cannabis-in-ancient-china)
Henry Ford created a car which utilized hemp throughout where ever possible. Run with a Diesel engine that operated on hemp biomass based fuels, and was lubricated by hemp lubricants throughout.
(http://www.hempcar.org/ford.shtml)
Today, the technology boom has created an array of new exciting technological discoveries like the new nano technologies based on cannabis/hemp. One recent energy study published July 2013, shows cannabis fibers are proving to be 10 times as efficient and conducive to the storage of, transmission of, and electrical throughput of the next best nano material known to day, which is a carbon nanomaterial, graphene. The cannabis fiber has far more nano potential for emerging energy technologies than does graphene with these early discoveries.
(https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/hemp-carbon-makes-supercapacitors-superfast)
From ASME Org., "Graphene, a carbon nanomaterial, is considered to be one of the best materials for supercapicitor electrodes. Graphene is, however, expensive to manufacture, costing as much as $2,000 per gram. Looking for a less-costly solution, researchers at the University of Alberta/National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) NRC, and Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures, led by chemical and materials engineering Professor David Mitlin, developed a process for converting fibrous hemp waste into a unique graphene-like nanomaterial that outperforms graphene. What’s more, it can be manufactured for less than $500 per ton."
The far reaching benefits with Cannabis/Hemp are potentially limitless.
The most important discovery of the last 50 years in regards to our health and detailed inner workings of our bodies, has to be the discovery every mammal on the planet has an Endocannabinoid System, including Mankind, and have at least CB1, and CB2 receptors so far identified. and others are suspected to be found.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1565857/)
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304395901004547)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9336020)
Evidence:
Recent studies in bio engineering research and development in the medical and scientific disciplines, have shown that cannabis has an intrinsic link to the bodies and minds of every man, woman, and child on the planet, as well as all animals, and seemingly was with us at the beginning of humanity and life as we know it. Contrary to common belief, cannabis has a long proven beneficial, and well documented non harmful interaction with our mind and body, the ability of cannabis to improve and maintain our overall health in every aspect via the bodies Endocannabinoid System, which can no longer be denied.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2241751/)
Just one U.S. Governmental study initiated under the Richard M. Nixon Administration, meant to show the dangers of cannabis, when published in 1974 concluded that THC, the "psychoactive" ingredient in cannabis, was verified to have the illimitable ability to shrink tumors. Today, there is vast corroborating evidence and studies, that show how THC has the ability to attack and kill nearly all forms of cancer, forcing it into apoptosis, which means to commit cellular suicide, while leaving the healthy cells surrounding the cancer cells operating at their best. That is to say, the THC makes the cancer cell shut itself off as it should have in the beginning, when it first started to mutate. This during the same administration that launched the War on Cancer, along with the War on Drugs...
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1159836)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479216)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673842/?tool=pmcentrez)
As shown by Patent #US6630507-Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants , cannabis has undeniable beneficial health implications and benefits for all peoples from newborn infants that receive massive dosages of anandamide, the bodies naturally made cannabinoid via breast milk, to the young and old alike. Even our pets are known to receive the very beneficial healing effects of cannabis when properly used as they too have a functional endocannabinoid system.
(see here: www google com/patents/US6630507)
(for pets: https://www.avma.org/news/javmanews/pages/130615a.aspx)
Conclusions:
The significance of this scientifically documented and verified information shows the paramount importance of cannabis to the health and well being of every man, woman and newborn child, and can not be more overstated.
Due to this irrefutable information, We the People of Michigan hereby call for the immediate repeal of Cannabis Prohibition in all form and manner, and a complete and comprehensive statewide decriminalization of all cannabis/cannabis associations whatsoever in Michigan as outlined herein.
Read it, tell me and others what you think about the language. Let us forego the fact some think Michigan Voters wont Vote for it. So Far no one is screaming for MORE Government Taxes and Authority over ANYTHING! lol
Please read the Act, ask any questions you have about it you may have. But keep in mind, the only reason this can not be on the 2016 ballot is if you and those you know do not sigh the petition to put it on the ballot in 2016 when they are available.
Now the only real question is, If this Was on the 2016 Ballot, would you vote to put it into law.
Lets keep the conversation to that aspect of this. I know many believe it is a Big Step. but baby steps never get you anywhere, especially when there is always a bully there to push you back down.
We need to forget the nonsense of Baby Steps. the MMM Act was our Baby Step and the Bully was there just waiting. Thus this is the only Actual and True Redress we have in the State, as a State.
Over the next month, I think you will come to find the number of those in our own community that agree with this position is overwhelming.
This is only the Introduction, The actual Bill is in the next post.
"
DRAFT A
Introduction:
Bring prohibition of any and all cannabis, and any cannabis associations to an end in its entirety, in our beloved state. Return cannabis to the pre 1937 non criminal status, when it was in the disciplines of Botany, Agriculture, and the daily use of the common person, requiring only their free will to do so for any non violent purposes, as they see fit. It is well past time we return cannabis back to when there was no criminality attached to this historically documented, multifaceted use, highly beneficial, and benign plant, in its entirety by ending Cannabis Prohibition in Michigan.
Michigan can do its honorable and responsible part to bring an end to the wasteful, brutal effects from the War on Drugs, and halt the increasing hostility that the War has had on our Michigan families, communities, personal, local, and state finances, not to mention the damage to them, and to the State, in and of itself.
Findings:
Cannabis can be traced back 5000 yrs as documented in historical Chinese records. Its uses are still today, as beneficial as they are as vast. Cannabis has been used as medicine, food, oils, lubricants, textiles, materials like canvas, rope, or naturally antibacterial cloth, fragrances, healing ointments, salves, fuels, fabrics, concrete, and much more. The etymology of the word canvas is derived from cannabis, as that is what canvas was manufactured from, and that canvas was turned into Sails for nearly all sea faring vessels prior to the invention of the steam engine. All the rope on these ships and used on land were made from hemp fibers. Cannabis was a staple of everyday life nearly everywhere on the face of the earth, and was ingested in one form or another by pretty much every man, women, and child since our existence.
From the industrial revolution era, cheap paper, plastics cellophane, and composites have been derived from Cannabis.
(https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-teenage-mind/201105/history-cannabis-in-ancient-china)
Henry Ford created a car which utilized hemp throughout where ever possible. Run with a Diesel engine that operated on hemp biomass based fuels, and was lubricated by hemp lubricants throughout.
(http://www.hempcar.org/ford.shtml)
Today, the technology boom has created an array of new exciting technological discoveries like the new nano technologies based on cannabis/hemp. One recent energy study published July 2013, shows cannabis fibers are proving to be 10 times as efficient and conducive to the storage of, transmission of, and electrical throughput of the next best nano material known to day, which is a carbon nanomaterial, graphene. The cannabis fiber has far more nano potential for emerging energy technologies than does graphene with these early discoveries.
(https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/hemp-carbon-makes-supercapacitors-superfast)
From ASME Org., "Graphene, a carbon nanomaterial, is considered to be one of the best materials for supercapicitor electrodes. Graphene is, however, expensive to manufacture, costing as much as $2,000 per gram. Looking for a less-costly solution, researchers at the University of Alberta/National Institute for Nanotechnology (NINT) NRC, and Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures, led by chemical and materials engineering Professor David Mitlin, developed a process for converting fibrous hemp waste into a unique graphene-like nanomaterial that outperforms graphene. What’s more, it can be manufactured for less than $500 per ton."
The far reaching benefits with Cannabis/Hemp are potentially limitless.
The most important discovery of the last 50 years in regards to our health and detailed inner workings of our bodies, has to be the discovery every mammal on the planet has an Endocannabinoid System, including Mankind, and have at least CB1, and CB2 receptors so far identified. and others are suspected to be found.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1565857/)
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304395901004547)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9336020)
Evidence:
Recent studies in bio engineering research and development in the medical and scientific disciplines, have shown that cannabis has an intrinsic link to the bodies and minds of every man, woman, and child on the planet, as well as all animals, and seemingly was with us at the beginning of humanity and life as we know it. Contrary to common belief, cannabis has a long proven beneficial, and well documented non harmful interaction with our mind and body, the ability of cannabis to improve and maintain our overall health in every aspect via the bodies Endocannabinoid System, which can no longer be denied.
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2241751/)
Just one U.S. Governmental study initiated under the Richard M. Nixon Administration, meant to show the dangers of cannabis, when published in 1974 concluded that THC, the "psychoactive" ingredient in cannabis, was verified to have the illimitable ability to shrink tumors. Today, there is vast corroborating evidence and studies, that show how THC has the ability to attack and kill nearly all forms of cancer, forcing it into apoptosis, which means to commit cellular suicide, while leaving the healthy cells surrounding the cancer cells operating at their best. That is to say, the THC makes the cancer cell shut itself off as it should have in the beginning, when it first started to mutate. This during the same administration that launched the War on Cancer, along with the War on Drugs...
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1159836)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11479216)
(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673842/?tool=pmcentrez)
As shown by Patent #US6630507-Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants , cannabis has undeniable beneficial health implications and benefits for all peoples from newborn infants that receive massive dosages of anandamide, the bodies naturally made cannabinoid via breast milk, to the young and old alike. Even our pets are known to receive the very beneficial healing effects of cannabis when properly used as they too have a functional endocannabinoid system.
(see here: www google com/patents/US6630507)
(for pets: https://www.avma.org/news/javmanews/pages/130615a.aspx)
Conclusions:
The significance of this scientifically documented and verified information shows the paramount importance of cannabis to the health and well being of every man, woman and newborn child, and can not be more overstated.
Due to this irrefutable information, We the People of Michigan hereby call for the immediate repeal of Cannabis Prohibition in all form and manner, and a complete and comprehensive statewide decriminalization of all cannabis/cannabis associations whatsoever in Michigan as outlined herein.
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