Cali Cannabis Consumers - SAVE YOUR JOBS!

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From: Jack Herer
Date: Jan 28, 2008 12:06 PM


Last Thursday the California Supreme Court ruled that employers can fire workers who use medical marijuana even if it was legally recommended by a doctor.


We knew this was going to happen because Oregon did the same thing right at the time we were finishing up the wording for the California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008 (CCHHI). We addressed this problem in our initiative under section 5(b). Here is the wording we have included:

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5(b): "Testing for inactive and/or inert residual cannabis matabolites shall not be required for employment or insurance, nor be considered in determining employment, other impairment, or intoxication."

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Now all we have to do is get this initiative on the ballot to fix this problem. We have until the middle of April to get 434,000 valid signatures. This means we'll actually need about 750,000 signatures all together. We need everyone's help with this. Please visit CCHHI - Home for more information on how you can help.

The only way to reverse the Greenhouse Effect is with Cannabis Hemp. It makes the best fuel on Earth, as well as the best paper, fiber, food and medicines. Californians are smart to use this wonderful plant and should not be threatened with losing their jobs for it.

The average lifespan in the United States is 76 for a man and 78 for a woman. But if you smoke pot morning, noon and night, you will live an average of two years longer than if you don’t. People who smoke pot but don’t smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol will live approximately 8 to 24 years longer than those who do smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. This was proven in studies done by Dr. Vera Ruben on Rastafarians in Jamaica from 1968 to 1974. The Rastafarians lived up in the hills and were the poorest people in Jamaica. Everyone expected them to have the shortest lives but instead they had the longest lives. They smoked pot morning, noon and night. This study cost $6,000,000.00 and was an extremely comprehensive study. If the same study was done today it would cost approximately $125,000,000.00.

We can do something about this if we have all of you helping us. We have about 90 days left so let's get to work!!! Thanks!

Jack Herer

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Calif. Court: Medical Pot Not OK at Work

By PAUL ELIAS; 3 days ago

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ; Employers can fire workers who use medical marijuana even if it was legally recommended by a doctor, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, dealing the state another setback in its standoff with federal law enforcement.

The high court upheld a small Sacramento telecommunications company's firing of a man who flunked a company-ordered drug test. Gary Ross held a medical marijuana card authorizing him to use the drug to treat a back injury sustained while serving in the Air Force.

The company, Ragingwire Inc., argued that it rightfully fired Ross because all marijuana use is illegal under federal law, which does not recognize the medical marijuana laws in California and 11 other states.

The justices upheld that argument in a 5-2 decision.

"No state law could completely legalize marijuana for medical purposes because the drug remains illegal under federal law," Justice Kathryn Werdegar wrote for the majority.

The U.S. Supreme Court declared in 2005 that state medicinal marijuana laws don't protect users from prosecution. The Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal agencies have been actively shutting down major medical marijuana dispensaries throughout California over the last two years and charging their operators with felony distribution charges.

Ragingwire said it fired Ross because it feared it could be
the target of a federal raid, among other reasons.

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority and the Western Electrical Contractors Association Inc. had joined Ragingwire's case, arguing that companies could lose federal contracts and grants if they allowed employees to smoke pot.

The conservative nonprofit Pacific Legal Foundation said in a friend-of-the-court filing that employers could also be liable for damage done by high workers.

Ross had argued that medical marijuana users should receive the same workplace protection from discipline that employees with valid painkiller prescriptions do. California voters legalized medicinal marijuana in 1996.

The nonprofit marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access, which represents Ross, estimates that 300,000 Americans use medical marijuana. The Oakland-based group said it has received hundreds of employee discrimination complaints in California since it began tracking the issue in 2005.

Safe Access attorney Joe Elford said the group will now focus on urging the Legislature to pass a law protecting workers who use medical marijuana.

"We remain confident that there will be a day when medical marijuana patients are not discriminated against in the workplace," he said.

Assemblyman Mark Leno, a Democrat who represents part of San Francisco, said he will introduce legislation addressing those concerns in the next few weeks.

The ruling "strikes a serious blow to patients' rights," he said.

Eleven states have adopted medical-marijuana laws similar to California's: Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.

The American Medical Association advocates keeping marijuana classified as a tightly controlled and dangerous drug that should not be legalized until more research is done.

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We need scientists to start trying thc for any possible appliication

In the future marijuana should be the first thing the doctor offers instead of an addicting opiate or something worse.

The direction should be to find what marijuana can not be used for or applied to.

I think in one form or another this magical plant can answer most if not all our problems as a society today.


Grow weed not greed...



Anybody know who this dude is in the action pic?