Archive for ‘medical marijuana’

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Nov10

Terms to Terminate Medical Marijuana Services: Caregivers v. Providers

by misheel on November 10th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Posted In: medical marijuana, Social Issues

The term “caregiver” is not reasonable for what medical marijuana providers and dispensaries do for their patients.

My mom is a caregiver. She helps people bathe, makes sure they take their meds, lives with them to cook, clean, and do everything else to make her patients’ lives better. But she does not know anything about marijuana, benefits of it, growing it, etc.

Here is the problem I want everyone to consider. Dispensaries and medical marijuana providers can never fill the services that my mom provides. And my mom cannot provide what the dispensaries do for the patients–which is, in most cases, more than just provide medicine, but a host of other services. These are specialized, separate type of services!

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Oct01

MEDICAL CANNABIS — Policy-making in Progress

by misheel on October 1st, 2009 at 4:02 pm
Posted In: medical marijuana, Social Issues

Longmont, CO – Last night, over eighty people from the newly created medical cannabis community (cannabis is commonly referred to as marijuana, a term that was coined in 1920s) from Northern Colorado met to discuss new local governance regarding dispensaries. They included an official from the District Attorney’s (DA’s) office, a local defendant’s attorney, caregivers who grew cannabis, workers and owner of a lab that tests cannabis, and patients.

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