I have been waiting with bated breath to find out if AUMA Adult Use of Marijuana Act, has enough valid signatures. The suggested turn in date was April 26th and today is April 29th. I understand AUMA was the only one to be able to report I think it's 25% of needed signatures ( not sure on that number but is a requirement by the state of California ballot process ). It is exciting!!! We have over 60% public support and the politicians are getting on board including Republicans who formally opposed such. Can you dig it? A business license for pot? I would like to have a seed business. Mostly to promote a heirloom program. We have let too many strains disappear because economics favor some new strain so I would like to "seed save" for future generations and provide seeds in a commercial way to others. I will be heading to my local small business mentoring agency to get started. How about you?? Any business plans come January?
600,000 signatures were submitted today, Also the campaign has started according to the email I received today. I will be doing something just what I don't know yet. I replied I can help. So any Californians that want to get this done you too can help with the advertisement of this initiative. Let me know if you need help finding the site. Now if it turns out to be Prop 19 the third I will really get pissed off LOL Should be really cool with Sean rumored to be spending up to 10 million more to get it through!
I have a 48 page rebutal to AUMA but I can't post it because this site is all fucked up. All I have to say is No on AUMA, it's a bad deal and you'll see that if it passes
I read you! Respect! It Ain't perfect but it's laws better than what we have opposed before! Any bad laws we will resist! Do this and get the Party Started please! Now can you please share your opposition because I would like to read your opinion. Thank You.
I can't help noticing the date on that posting :: 24-Feb-2016 A bit dated. So yes like Prop 19 Version 2 it's sucks in many ways but it;s going to allow us to grow our own and have a business license to grow. Yes we will need to oppose aspects but we can do so from a much better position then we have now. The only real defendants in this case are those who stand to lose because their entire economic lives depend on Marijuana being illegal and to them I say FUCK YOU! Legalize!
um hello, prop 215 already allows me to grow and I don't need a business license to do it. I don't want the mans jackboot on my neck anymore than it already is. I hold a couple of different professional licenses and I can tell you that having a license does not mean shit really, it's just another way to get in your pocket. Did you know that the department of consumer affairs regulates licensing in Ca? Did you know that the Contractors State License Board is a division of them? Did you know that they will give a convicted felon a license to practice their trade, but, when you as the employer hire for that same trade you will be damn lucky if your insurer will insure said felon that you may want to hire. These are the idiots that will be running the show. I'll just be over here doing what I have always done, regardless of what law they pass or don't pass. As long as prop 215 is in place and the supporting CA Supreme court rulings are intact regarding 215 then I say fuck these gold digging mother fuckers and anyone that knowingly supports AUMA. I'm voting hell no.
Hey, I'm medical too but I live in a county where growing your own medical is illegal, well, prohibited. I look forward to a law that states I can grow six plants and this fucked up county can't stop me with their bullshit. It will take out-right legalization to afford us the right to grow our own meds here. Still the war will not be over I am sure. As to the business end I am sure I am in for a rude awakening. It's sad to read that you will not vote for my freedom only yours.
Letitia Pepper is a whacko. Enough said on that counter argument. Just a few minutes on a Google search tell me volumes. True on Prop 19 the second she did do some amazing work and I was against prop 19 but since then she looks to have lost some aspects of her legal mind. The annotation you presented offers some interesting points and yet no one gets everything they want in Politics. It just doesn't work that way. To drone on and on and on as MS Pepper did left me with the point of view that she sees conspiracy everywhere. True that those with money make money, that is always the case and nothing about Marijuana business is socialist. The final and most important point I can make is that it costs a lot to get legalization on the ballot and to advertise it well enough to get a successful vote and AUMA has ten million dollars promised to advertise with. Like it or not it is "do or die" since no other "Gift Horse" is going to show up. We are damn lucky Sean Parker is spending all that money and we dare not fuck this one up because there just might not be another chance. So yes not perfect, lays a foundation that is distasteful to some in the already established industry but in time the consumer will benefit. In the end the people will prosper and that is what I care about. I want the right to have a garden. Six plants has proven to provide enough for me for a year so I am good with that.The right to have a legal garden is the most important step. Remember we have lived under much worse laws and we have overcome them so I say to you we will overcome any bad that this AUMA introduces. Personally? I am hoping for some exciting California Hashs' and that does require large grows to make happen. That indeed is the realm of large commercial farms. So be it! Addendum: The Libertarian fantasy that we all will have 25 foot garden rows and grow our "trees" to take to pharmers market just isn't realistic! No intoxicant is going to be free under Capitalism. Indeed Cannabis value has been made what it is by making and keeping it illegal. It stands to reason once everyone can have a six plant grow the price of weed when the commercial aspects are added in will make the smaller producer struggle unless they provide a superior product and a competitive price. However the winner will be the consumer and I am all for that.
and just fyi, the signatures that have been gathered have not been verified and AUMA has not been approved on any ballot yet.
So Blazer, just what is it about AUMA that troubles you? I've read the bill summary and am hashing my way through the details of the actual legislation itself and am not finding anything I couldn't live with. Not saying you're off base, just wondering what I'm missing? The section that gives me chuckles is where LEO got it's big piggie nose into the trough in a big way by capturing 20% of nondirected funds. This alone should be a red flag to any activist group. It's a pay-off to LEO for losing one of it's biggest cash cows. Basically the equivalent of a local mafia Don requiring his cut for allowing your business to take place on his turf. That's the one piece I can find that would keep me from supporting AUMA as it is.
There is a Counter-Argument to what you point out and that is that social services are served by that. Mental health and the ilk are the ones getting that cut. I attended the Gallo Center for the Arts in Modesto California for the "Conversation with the Community about Marijuana." Basically yes the County folks were all about how do we get our hands on the money but the Sheriff was more about how do we provide services and what will the demand on resources be when weed is legal. Perhaps that Piggie nose is pointed in the right direction? Edit: One more thought : Once Weed is legal California LEO is our friend.
You're mistaken about LEO not being bribed off. It's in the bill as proposed that LEO gets 20%. That piggie nose has no business in this discussion about use of tax income from legalization.
rofl. leo is NEVER your friend. There is nothing I support in this bill, absolutely nothing. Like I said, I'll just be over here doing what I always have done. It has been 100 percent illegal to grow outside Sacramento county for two years. If I ever stop growing it will be because I am burned out on it, which is a high likelyhood this year. /monthly_2016_05/100_4461.jpg.7038df1796404a73b4be6635db275b0e.jpg /monthly_2015_09/ck1.jpg.0b472f572ec85aa1a8b617a0af3673ef.jpg /monthly_2015_08/marisol.jpg.796a0ac10af5c1d68e4032da23c8a189.jpg /monthly_2016_05/pkfcvr.jpg.5e5fb9d9f347c3695b8fc2f9daddd0c2.jpg /monthly_2016_01/ck4.jpg.ac769aa2480ec30d70d675b2cf546746.jpg
As I said we will oppose any bad. Colorado is now spearheading a movement to point out that forcing people to grow indoors is using a lot of electric meaning we are polluting when we don't have to because of simple access to the Sun. I agree that the rules that only allow indoors for private Gardens is a "Straw Dog" but we must meow before we can Bark! Think about that. California is not the first in the Legalization Marathon. It is my hope we can be Fourth. Politics is a lumbering beast.
you do understand many communities have outlawed outdoor gardening due to the risk of hone invasion correct? any push to change that is just trying to force small indoor gardens out of the market
Indoor or out, security should be the only issue. I'm positive that a stand of 5 pound trees in the back of my acreage, a mile from the nearest structure where I control the only road access, would be more secure than what I do now. Safer for me and the pup too should rippers target a crop. Prefer a sneak thief to a home invasion. Blazer....hope you don't stop. It'd be a waste of talent old head.
