Legal/Government
CA Senate Bill 420
Oh, the irony of it all:
Introduced by Sen. John Vasconcellos (D-Senate District 13), S.B. 420
expands and clarifies California's medical marijuana law. Among other
improvements, this bill mandates the creation of a state registry and
the distribution of state medical marijuana ID cards. Registration
would be optional, but it would ensure that medical marijuana patients
in less "tolerant" areas of California are protected from arrest. This
legislation passed the Senate Committee on Public Safety by a vote of
5-1 and the Senate Committee on Appropriations by a vote of 7-5. The
Senate vote may take place as soon as tomorrow, and you have the power
to help pass this bill into law.
(from
http://www.mpp.org/CA)
Posted by Mayhem at May 28, 2003 04:32 PM
California's Senate Bill 420 that went into effect on the 1st of January 2004, is a VIOLATION of our California State Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment which set the guides for a PEOPLES' INITIATIVE.
PROPOSITION 215 or Compassionate Use Act 1996 is what Senate Bill 420 claims to clarify, claims to rectify, by setting guidelines and limitations on the very ill people who the law was intended to protect.
Ironically, the unconstitutionality of going about implementing California's Senate Bill 420,undermindes the intentions of the 56%
of the voters, who meant for the COMPASSIONATE USE ACT 1996 to be the final word of THE PEOPLE.
However, that is what Senate Bill 420 has done; undermind the POWER OF THE PEOPLE into the hands of the LEGISLATURES who were NOT authorized by THE PEOPLE to modify, or amend, nor add, nor subtract from COMPASSIONATE USE ACT 1996 or California Health and Safety Code 11362.5.
Well, I for one am FIRED UP as I feel personally attacked. I, Queen Negus Somayah Kambui, do hereby declare CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 420 an UNCONSTITUTIONAL and inhumane law set out to NULLIFY a PEOPLES' MANDATE....i.e. it is THE PEOPLE of the State of California, i.e. THE VOTERS...who have the power to dictate and mandate without interference of legislatures.
The INITIATIVE PROCESS is one by VOTE of the People. Only the VOTERS can reglegate whether or not legislatures can modify or amend ANY INITIATIVE LAW. It is done at the time of VOTING.
PROPOSITION 215, or the COMPASSIONATE USE ACT 1996, gave no such authority to the California legislatures to change ANYTHING.
Therefore, I have decided to go into Court for a STAY of CALIFORNIA SENATE BILL 420.
For one thing, I am a CAREGIVER of people who are afflicted with SICKLE CELL DISEASE, which is a genetic anomaly of the hemoglobin. A genetic blood anomaly akin to people of Nigritian decent.
California's Senate Bill 420 dictates that people such as myself and those I care for, can only have 1 patient, or 1 caregiver OUTSIDE of their own County. This is absurd, unconstitutional, both by Californnia and by U.S. Constitution.
I am Caregiver for people with Sickle Cell all over the State of California and all over the U.S.A. I must insist that California Senate Bill 420 be recinded or repealed.
So, 2 issues prevail.
1) UNCONSTITUIONAL: Violation of California Constitution 10th Amendment.
2) UNCONSTITUTIONAL: Violation of U.S. Constitution.
3) VIOLATION against Americans with Disabilities Act, depriving access to life essential substance, medicine, plants, food,etc.
NIGRITIAN KIEF - Cannabis (medical marijuana) is what we have succeeded in developing as a strain to address the violent episodes of pain and the life threatening complications of Sickle Cell Disease.
So now, am I the only one who will have to approach the VOTERS with a state-wide media campaign about the unconstitutionality of Senate Bill 420? I hope not!
I see a long line of people at the Civil Court to file lawsuit against the State Legislatures, against the Governor, against even the People of the State of California, if they don't wake up and smell the bullshit stinking up our aromatic cannabis fields of Miracle Medicine.
Senate Bill 420 is tantamount to GENOCIDE for people like myself and those I care for.
The duty of the State legislatures and local governments is to IMPLEMENT A DISTRIBUTION as the words of California Health and Safety Code 11362.5 or Proposition 215 i.e. Compassionate Use Act dictate that that distribution is the primary concern for legislatures and law enforcement.
COMPASSIONATE USE ACT 1996 says NO PROSECUTIONS! Do we really need to spell out to these dummies that ARREST is the 1st step to PROSECUTION and that NO ARREST is the gist of what law enforcement need to get across in their departamental and governmental agencies. GUIDLINES need to be put on LAW ENFORCEMENT and on the LEGISLATURES to COMPLY with the Compassionate Use Act 1996. That's it...!! Too Simple, huh?.....not!
