WHY DO THEY PASS LAWS AGAINST US

Laws That Apply to us Do Not Apply to Our Legislators,

WHY DO THEY PASS LAWS AGAINST US

Lansing is the place to meet on September 7, 2011.   People and supporters of  Medical Marijuana  will be there to protest new laws and restrictions against licensed growers and users.  

Our legislators are spending their time writing laws restricting licensed growers from economically raising plants.   Marijuana should be recognized as the poor mans medicine.  When the law was created for the allowance to tolerate qualified users and suppliers, there was no system of delivery in place.  The state made no effort to assist anybody.  They left people on their own to find plants or product.  Many people were first time users and did not know where to go for help.

Dispensaries were created without state help, even though the state took $8,000,000.  Some dispensaries like, MACC  (Michigan Association of Cannabis)  pooled recourses and formed organizations to assist, console and inform licensed users.  People had to learn how to grow and harvest.  The state would not assist them, so they turned to the dispensaries, as a safe place to get information and product.  They needed plants and seeds.  Our legislators are working to stop or prevent people from networking, sharing or being able to obtain marijuana.  You can be licensed to use it, but you cannot grow it or get it.

The gathering at the capitol building in Lansing on September 7 will address issues of concern.  People are asked to join in their support of the activity that will began at noon.   If you are unememployed or somehow affected by Michigan economy, please come and visit with us.  We are all affected.

Corporate conservatives are hijacking our state and holding us hostage.  Corporations have no feelings; however, conservatives who run them have their agendas to run.  They call for smaller government to disband the EPA and let them continue creating ocean killing disasters.  The earthquake in Japan did less damage than our last Gulf disaster.   At the same time, they warn us that our state is broke.  We have to cut back on programs.  We need to raise property taxes on our properties that are falling in value.  We have to ignore the fact that most home sales amount to bank deals on foreclosed properties. 

While our state creates new ways to tax residents and give huge corporate breaks, there is still plenty of money, one and a half million dollars in each county to spend searching for marijuana.  There is enough money to purchase new, Dodge Charger police cars; even though they can remanufacture police cars for a third of the price.  That is not saving money for our state.  It does not make us any safer, or feed us any better.  We are still losing jobs in Michigan.  More people move out of Michigan than into it.  The state is becoming known as a retirement community, and there will be a dearth of that.  We can attribute this to corporations and less than altruistic business practices. 

There was no secret about what Michigan people voted for.  We voted for a balanced budget.  A balanced budget does not make cuts for Social Security.   The reason a balanced does not include draining our Social Security funds, is because we put our money there, and for that purpose.

 It could include cutting lavish pension packages for elected officials.   People should not be elected to office, to retire there.  A balanced budget could include doing more to salvage public equipment such as police cars, rather than replace them.  That is called, green technology.  It is also called prudence and common sense.  The only thing our legislators are preserving right now is their life style, and they are doing it at our expense, literally.  

A balanced budget can include quality educations that encourage the arts equally with science.  We did not vote to give corporations more money to drive our state deeper in debt.  We were not voting to elect a plenipotentiary to represent corporations.  Unfortunately, neither candidate had a plan written publically for people to examine.  Maybe that should be a prerequisite for every candidate.

In order to solve the problems that plague Michigan, we have to know what the problems are.

 Number one on the Michigan list is the demand for jobs.  Number two is the redemption of homes lost due to job loss.  Education must come third, because people have to satisfy hunger before they can feed their minds.  Our governor has addressed none of these issues.  We need a governor who will address the issues.  Instead of spending most of the time in Lansing, more time needs to be spent on the bus and visiting Michigan communities that are ailing.  We cannot fix these problems without understanding them first.