A few key points that should be highlighted, and shown to the people writing the bad laws!
“Because the Compassionate Use Act (Proposition 215) was adopted as an initiative statute, legislative efforts to address some of the issues surrounding medical marijuana might be limited by article II, section 10(c) of the Constitution, which generally prohibits the Legislature from amending initiatives, or changing their scope or effect, without voter approval. In simple terms, this means that the core right of the qualified patients to cultivate and possess marijuana cannot be abridged.”
And to make Collective grows illegal, is against prop 215
“Qualified patients, persons with valid identification cards, and the designated primary caregivers of qualified patients and persons with identification cards, who associate within the state of California in order to collectively or cooperatively to cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, shall not solely on the basis of that fact, be subject to state criminal sanctions under section 11357, 11358, 11359, 11360, 11366, 11366.5, or 11570.”
The bottom line, Shasta Counties new ordinance that bans collective growing, as well as banning cultivation outright in most locations across the county, is in violation of state law.
But did you know the The United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services has a patent on the use of cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants.
November 2009. American medical association urges the federal government to reconsider its classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug with no accepted medical use.
CU DENVER Study on medical marijuana laws and vehicle accident rates. Nov. 2011.