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U.S. | Drug WarState of Vermont Only Allows 1,000 Patients to Use Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
State of Vermont pits medical marijuana patients Is the State of Vermont unlawfully bullying
medical marijuana patients by only allowing 1,000 of them to participate in using the new medical marijuana dispensaries in Vermont? Isn't it a violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act to only allow 1,000 severely ill people to participate in a state authorized facility? Just because the state authorized facilities are medical marijuana dispensaries, does that negate the patients' protection under the ADA? No severly disabled person would even consider having to bribe State Police employees acting on behalf of the State of Vermont (the ones who make the decision to issue medical marijuana cards even though they aren't doctors and the doctor has "prescribed" it), but for the fact that the new law of the State of Vermont only allows 1,000 persons to use a medical marijuana dispensary at any one time. http://www.leg.state.vt.us No. 65. An act relating to registering four nonprofit organizations to dispense marijuana for symptom relief. (S.17) It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont: Sec. 1. 18 V.S.A. chapter 86, subchapter 2 is amended to read: Subchapter 2. Marijuana for Medical Symptom Use by Persons with Severe Illness Section 4472. Definitions..... Section 4474f. Dispensary Application, Approval, and Registration(a)(1) (page 25 of 39) (H) (2) (b) The total statewide number of registered patients who have designated a dispensary shall not exceed 1,000 at any one time. The Americans with Disabilities Act, Title III Technical Assistance Manual Covering Public Accomodations and Commercial Facilities November 1993 U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section III-2.1000 General. Title III of the ADA prohibits discrimination against any "qualified individual with a disability." If there become 1001 cancer patients in Vermont, then you cannot discriminate against the most recent one (1) because the State of Vermont decided to allow only 1000 patients to have medical marijuana cards. III-3.6000 Retaliation or coercion. Individuals who exercise their rights under the ADA, or assist others in exercising their rights, are protected from retaliation. III-8.1000 General. The ADA establishes two avenues for enforcement of the requirements of title III: (1) Private suits by individuals who are being subjected to discrimination or who have reasonable grounds for believing that they are about to be subjected to discrimination.; (2) Suits by the Department of Justice, whenever it has reasonable cause to believe that there is a pattern or practice of discrimination, or discrimination that raises an issue of general public importance. The Department will investigate complaints and conduct compliance reviews of covered entitites. Therefore, not only do the medical marijuana dispensaries violate federal marijuana laws, but they violate the ADA if only 1,000 persons in Vermont are allowed to have medical marijuana cards. The Department of Justice can intervene in any civil action under the ADA that any disabled person files if the State of Vermont denies them a medical marijuana card on the basis of discrimination that they will only allow 1,000 people to have a medical marijuana card, which discriminates against all other disabled persons who would otherwise qualify for a medical marijuana card in Vermont. The Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II Technical Assistance Manual Covering State and Local Government Programs and Services November 1993, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section II-3.7100 Contracting. A public entity may not discriminate on the basis of disability in contracting for the purchase of goods and services. (the "goods" being marijuana, and the "services" being the cultivation and growing of marijuana in the medical marijuana dispensary business licensed by the State of Vermont.) Again, you can't limit the number of otherwise qualified disabled persons to receive a medical marijuana card in Vermont. II-2.1000 General. Title II of the ADA prohibits discrimination against any "qualified individual with a disability." etc., I could go on all day browsing these two technical assistance manuals and picking out sections that would be violated if the State of Vermont discriminates agains qualified individuals who would otherwise be eligible for a medical marijuana card if the State of Vermont did not put a "cap" on the limit of patients to only allowing 1,000 persons medical marijuana cards. : All Vermont State Marijuana Laws and Medical Marijuana Laws should be REPEALED. Repeal, repeal, repeal. Why? Because there are so many Federal marijuana laws that it is a fraudulent "double billing" against taxpayers to waste Vermont State tax dollars hounding and stalking people for marijuana when you could simply leave it all up to the Feds. http://uscode.house.gov Search for marijuana laws, spell it two ways, marijuana with a j and marijuana with an h. The federal government has cleverly concealed how many federal marijuana laws there actually are by publishing some laws under one spelling and some under another.
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( usmjp [at] aceweb.com )
Thursday Feb 2nd, 2012 3:58 PM
The new medical marijuana law only allows four
non-profits to operate at any time growing and dispensing medical marijuana in Vermont. They are required to pay the State of Vermont $30,000. a year for the privilege of running a non-profit medical marijuana business. Excuse me, but I'm a little leery of this. It runs against the grain of how I think of a non-profit. Is a $30,000.00 annual fee charged to a non-profit agency just for the privilege of running their non-profit business, an act of embezzlement by the State of Vermont? http://www.leg.state.vt.us/docs/2012/Acts/ACT065.pdf No. 65. An Act relating to registering four nonprofit organizations to dispense marijuana for symptom relief. (S.17) pg. 26 of 29, Section 4484f. Dispensary Application, Approval, and Registration (c) Each application for a dispensary registration certificate shall include all of the following: (1) A nonrefundable application fee in the amount of $2,500. paid to the department of public safety... pg. 28 of 29 (g) After a dispensary is approved but before it begins operations, it shall submit the following to the department of public safety:... (4) A registration fee of $20,000.00 for the first year of operation, and an annual fee of $30,000.00 in subsequent years. Pg. 38 of 39, Sec. 3a. Appropriation. The amount of $108,500.00 is appropriated from the registry fee fund in fiscal year 2012 to the department of public safety for the performance of the department's responsibilities under this act. This doesn't even add up. If four Non-Profit agencies pay the State of Vermont $20,000.00 each the first year, then that equal $80,000.00 They also already paid $2,500. each application fee for a total of $10,000.00 for the four of them; and that adds up to $90,000.00 So, the State of Vermont seems to be planning on accepting enough application fees, and not making any decisions on the applications, until they get up to a total of $108,500.00 with all the $2,500. application fees. In other words, it looks like the State of Vermont is seriously and willfully and intentionally baiting the hook for suckers. |