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                               3:00pm and the previous unmentioned second problem

 

          Did I mention that Stash is a robot? No , really. Now this is completely pre terminator operating system but he is. Until about 6:30 or 7pm on one hour of sleep having drove almost all day before we got picked up, he drove......and drove. Without crank or whatever creepy druggie truckers are on. My conclusion exactly readers, must be a robot. I might get one of those security scanners and see if it blows up near him. Hahahahahahahahaha.  All joking aside great job on that haul.

                                                                    1:00 pm Friday(still) Medford, Or

 

        One of the many tasks I am involved in with Ajnag is to reach out various services from collectives to activist groups. My goal being to locate and verify them for our Iphone app Cannabis and Imedicalcannabis.org. Sometimes in this I get to talk to people like Mel from Southern Oregon Norml (SONORML) who I thought was just an activist group. Till I talked them that is.

5:0o am (That boring part between So cal and Nor cal.What's up with all the non happy looking cows? I will not eat your cheese sir!)

    Upon waking up , I realized that we were stopped and everyone was out cold. Not for long as Stash then everyone else was to follow and we hit the road again. Most importantly we had a new passenger, BLUNT! I found myself quite excited as this is the first true ganja I have smoke in awhile other than resin and hash. Though the hash was bomb, it wasn't quite scratching that itch. The obvious follows and within a half hour the back seat was out.  The task of amusing ourselves, was now up to...........ourselves. 

   Now the great part about being involved with Ajnag , is the type of people you get to work with. Real people who are educated, positive, motivated individuals with enough care and morals that I am blessed to call my friends. Yes people out there upons all the 1's and 0's. This is not the easiest path to take, yest as Ajnag has shaken off some dead weight it has become was less stressful. Well, needless to say conversation flows like wine in Rome. A good thing as I do not sleep well in a car at all. (hence the whole Twin Peeks thing in Part 1).

                                                                  12:00pm North Hollywood

    Having just arrived to my new place of residence only an hour before, I hurried out to the front of the condo to meet up with Devin and Stash. It was the witching hour and the destination was Seattle , Washington for Hempfest 2009. It was nice to finally be on the road after a day of not being to sure if we would make it down from the San Bernadino Mts. Getting off the mountain is not the easiest thing without a car or ability to fly. Soooooo, four of us packed up into a new Mazda 626 which happened to be loaded to the brim with equipment and other various mysteries of the world (Dev packs like that crazy Mormon family on TV. Looking back the whole process was rushed and under thought on my part. Having should have left five hours before, we were left with a predicament and a situation , the latter not presenting itself right away. Devin has forgotten his vape bags for his volcano and is on a strict not smoke diet. Stash being at the helm and quite aware of the time refused to turn back the vehicle. Manifest Destiny! I had shotgun because my tall ass would not fit in the back , leaving Anelise and Dev to hold up the  back. Taking off the energy in the car was tense as we all felt under medicated and rushed. I personally not having medicated in a few days, well I wanted to use a box of kittens for fuel for my inner fire of pure fury!!! Not really but , it was not cool. Luckily there was HASH! Good stuff I hear....... Energy is a funny thing when it comes together. When it is all right at the universe shines upon us, four people can take a less than agreeable situation and turn it into lifelong memories, great ones at that. My point being, much gratitude for hash. my recollection of the next five hours is mostly a dreamlike montage reminiscent of what I remember of the Twin Peeks TV show (WHT ...who....what...huh....???). I do not sleep well in a car, add some serious concentrate and I feel like I have been roofied , except I can find my pants.

                                                                       Next up 5:00am (that weird part between nor cal and so cal where the cows do not look like those happy cows from the commercial)

 We kinda got off at a late start... but driving up the 5 at night time is probably the best way to do it. Unfortunately the vape. bags had gotten left behind.... but we stayed positive and decided to make some medicated pudding. (( yes in the car ))   About an hour went by and we all fell asleep.... It was a very looong drive. Nothing but dirt and farms.   dirt. farm. dirt. farm. dirt. farm. Then we finally reached Oregon.  8]  Logan remembered there was a norml in southern oregon, so we checked it out with our "cannabis app" over dev's i-phone.  We were there in less than 5 min. The people at Southern Oregon Norml were very welcoming and pleased to hear that they were located with an i-phone. They gave us a tour of the building, introduced us to some of the local patients, and told us their stories.

 

 

How Oaksterdam University Saved my Ass during a Medical Cannabis Raid

So, last weekend I sat through the Oaksterdam University (O.U.) 101 weekend course for the first time (believe it or not). I was really excited to take the course but I never realized how valuable the course was until I found myself in the middle of a multi-agencies task force raid. During the legal wrap up section of the course, Dale Clare, the executive Chancellor of O.U., reminded the class of their Constitutional rights and told the them to assert their rights even when a search warrant is present. Well that’s what I did. After reading the search warrant, I was asked to identify myself but my CA Driver’s license was in my purse, in my room, and I was out front of the house. An officer brought my purse down and another office began going through my purse. I said, loud and clear, “I do not consent to a search”. The officer said, “I have a search warrant”. I said, “I don’t consent to you searching my purse”. He proceeded and I tapped my roommate on the arm and said, “Did you hear me say, I don’t consent to the search?”

The officers stopped looking through my bag and began asking me where he could find my I.D. I explained to him it was in my wallet inside my purse. He pulled out my travel bag for my medical cannabis and began opening it. I stopped him & said, “My ID isn’t in there, it’s in my wallet”. He stopped unzipping my inconspicuous cannabis carrier and began looking for my wallet which he quickly found and got my ID. He however did locate some money and told me he was going to have to take my money. I explained to him that it was all the money I had and if he took it, I wouldn’t be able to eat. He somewhat used that against me to try and get me to give up my rights but I refused and ultimately he did not take my money and I believe that he didn’t take my money because I asserted my rights. And he knew if he took my money, it would be returned to me and it would have looked sloppy on his part for violating my rights. So I still have my money and some meds and my rights. Not too bad considering. Thanks Oaksterdam University for teaching me how to handle myself with law enforcement. That DEA was wrong, Oaksterdam University can really help in these situations.

CALIFORNIA - Organica Collective located on Washington Boulevard in Venice/Culver City, was raided this morning by a joint task force consisting of DEA, Culver City Police, IRS, and Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Organica was also raided last year by DEA and Culver City PD but no charges were filed. AJNAG did a video profile on Organica and interview with the Jeff Joseph, Organica's owner, after the first DEA and Culver City encounter.  Despite U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder's statement to end the raids on medical cannabis facilities, they still continue.  The DEA even went as far as to shoot Jeff's dog at the time of entrance.

William Kroger, Los Angeles' premier marijuana attorney, was at the scene and said, "This will be a wake up call for many.  It shows you where things really are."

Jeff Joseph was raided at his home. He will be held at the Pacific Division 12312 Culver Blvd. 

On friday July 31, 2009 I was harrassed and interrogated and eventually arrested for driving under the influence of marijuana in San Bernardino, CA. The officer, CASTRO found a half gram of properly labeled medical marijuana inside my vehicle after an illegal search, forced me to perform field sobriety tests which i passed. The officer said based on the fact that you smoked marijuana sometime in the day preceeding, you are under the influence of marijuana. I was placed under arrest and booked into the Central Detention facility in San Bernardino. 

There is no scientific evidence that suggests marijuana causes impairment of a level that would qualify for dui in california. The cops know this but they use this as a harrassment tool for legal medical marijuana patients.

More and More patients are being subjected to this travesty and abuse of law enforcement resources.

One argument in favour of legalization I've heard fairly frequently is that recreational cannabis use is also medicinal, insomuch that it reduces stress and anxiety, lowers blood pressure, et cetera. The argument is thus: if cannabis has medicinal benefits, who is to say whether one's "recreational" use of cannabis (as part of a personal health regimen much like seniors take Aspirin daily) is less valid than how a cancer or AIDS patient uses it, and further, because the line between recreational and medicinal use is so blurry from this standpoint, recreational use should be allowed vis-à-vis full legalization.

I should back that statement up a bit. Clearly, a cancer or AIDS patient has a greater need for medicinal cannabis than a recreational user; this is not the argument, these people would clearly be much worse off without cannabis. What's being argued (Albeit less-so in, say, California) is the validity of the assertion that cannabis should be reserved for cases with critical needs, almost as a "last ditch effort" to help people suffering from the worst illnesses known to humanity.

Recently, the guy who runs WeedMaps.com got some flack from the medicinal community when he was interviewed by media and made light of California's lax requirements for medicinal cannabis. The danger of the "recreational as medicinal" approach is that the medicinal lobby has fought tooth and nail for credibility over decades of heartache, and with more and more states opting to allow at least limited medicinal cannabis usage, the last thing needed is for more conservative states to see the medicinal lobby as a Trojan Horse for full-on legalization. This is also part of why many in the medicinal community are against legalization; the U.S. federal government doesn't even acknowledge cannabis has medicinal benefit yet, much less be on board for letting everyone in the country smoke it.