215 Card Fees Raised
The Eureka Reporter reports the fee medical marijuana patients pay for their identification cards has nearly doubled over the last year. It now costs around $75 to get your get out of jail free card. This supposedly due to increasing administrative and maintenance costs.
This is precisely the reason a number of Libertarians opposed Prop 215 in the first place: Why should people, especially those who are critically ill, have to deal with a bunch of bureaucratic BS just to make themselves feel better? They were certainly correct in that sense and it will likely only get worse.
Myself? I agreed with their reasoning but felt that might well be throwing the baby out with the bath water; like being against tax cuts because you insist on abolition of the income tax. I think marijuana certainly needs to be decriminalized, not legalized. Once legalized it will just end up like a cash cow for government and bureaucrats and that won't be good for anyone involved except government and bureaucrats. We need to just take laws against possession and cultivation off the books and leave it at that. That might not happen, though, at least not any time soon.
posted by Fred Mangels @ 8:36 AM
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Here's a list of the ten most dangerous jobs in Oregon based on the percentage of on the job injuries.
1. Building motor vehicles
2. Sawmill
3. Building manufactured homes
4. Foundry work
5. Police officer or deputy
6. Building trailers
7. Plumbers & HVAC installation
8. Home centers
9. Bike messenger
10. Logging
That's from OSHA's Oregon numbers. You like to play with your numbers and data, professonal drivers are in the top 10 national most dangerous jobs, but that includes Bus drivers, truck drivers, pizza boys, etc etc. I don't see you lining up to be a police officer, it's much easier to sit at your desk and bitch about it online. I wonder how "dangerous" that job is. Must be up there with Nelsen Family and shut-in.
you can apply for hardship and get the license fee waived
So what it boils down to is this, you want a body count, where I'm using injuries. We are also using data that is old, some even outdated (I'm sorry, but in this modern age, 6 years is a long time). With modern body armor, car safety, and training, you are less likely to take a round and die, then you were 15 years ago. So does that make the job safe? I do find it funny that you complain about "frivolous complaints" yet you seem to be bugging the FBI an awful lot. I guess "frivolous complaints" are other people's problems, but yours are serious.
Noel, what in the hell is your point again anyway? Make pot legal and the World will be a shiny happy place? Is that it?
Here is the link to the story Fred.
http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=7993
Or you can just click HERE
That's ok, Noel. You boys fight it out amongst yourselves. Happens all the time.
The number of valid cards currently on issue is 242, she said.
Wow, that's alot of cards for this area, not. What gives? I did like this though:
Since the card program started in 2000, approximately 868 cards have been issued, with many being duplicates.
"Hey man, like have you seen, my, um, party coupon, man?"
Thanks. Where'd you find that link? I must have missed it.
Sometimes all the stories aren't linked to the front page.
Leonidas must agree with Noel for the most part. "Decriminalizing" pot is only another word for legalizing it. The govt will convert its use into a cash cow in any event (it's what they do). Having said that and also having anecdotal exposure to law enforcement across the nation and other nations as well as 15 years on the streets of Los Angeles County as a cop, I am here to tell you that law enforcement agencies in Humboldt County are a JOKE!
noel said in the first comment: "Legalizing pot, homelessness (AKA trespassing)and other victimless crimes would be very dangerous... to law enforcement."
"Trespassing" (section 602 PC) is NOT a victimless crime. I didn't keep stats but I have been shot at and had 3 colleagues shot dead on the job as well as a partner shot in the abdomen. These were not like "accidents" which cause death or injuries in other occupations.
Noel Adamson is mentally ill, and should not be using or around pot. Noel, you should also not be around other humans, but go back to planet Carpface, where you belong.
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