#Currently unlisted but I might publish it

[grinkcore]

SHITTY TMG RECORDINMG (MINUS THE FIRST SONG IM SORRY :^[ ) This was a bitch and a half to wrangle lol

[taintedbenevolence]

INTRO PAGE / PLEASE READ

— ❝ my beloved, weeping angel... sing for me — sing for me until your throat burns from calling out my name. ❞

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INTRODUCTIONS ABOUT MYSELF !

NAMES. Please refer to me by names such as Veris, Aeros, or Azu. If you'd like to refer to me by any nicknames, message me! I'll let you know whether I'm fine with it or not <33

PRONOUNS & PREFERENCES. My pronouns are she / her, so please refer to me as such! As for preferences, I'm currently straight.

MBTI. My MBTI is ISFP-A. A bit of an ISXP, but I'm closer to an ISFP than an ISTP, although I identify with traits from both.

ENNEAGRAM. My Enneagram is 4w5.

ZODIAC SIGN. I'm not all into signs, but, for any of you who'd like to know, I'm a Pisces, born on February 23rd.

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About Me !

WHAT DO I DO? I'm a writer and artist. I love music, art, and writing, and as such, I am quite happy to settle here.

BLOG'S PURPOSE. This blog was created so that I could share my written works, characters, and headcanons, amongst other things that are unlisted.

FIND YOU WHERE? Other places where you can find me (or where you may know me from) are Wattpad and Quotev. If you know me from either of those places, you should be acquainted with my writing.

MY SCHEDULE. I don't follow a schedule in particular, so please don't expect me to be posting / writing on a specific day of the week. I'll be posting when I feel like it.

NSFW. Please know that there will be explicit content in this blog, so for any minors who are following me, if you're not comfortable with such posts, just carry on and do not interact with those posts. Block the tags vanilla.cream and saccharine.affinity if you don't want to interact with nsfw content.

AM I WELCOME? Ageless, 18+, minor, and other sorts of blogs are welcome here, but I'll reiterate: if you are a minor, do not interact with nsfw content.

BYF. If you have zero content in your blog or you have no indicative that you are a real person, I will soft-block you. So please, put something in your bio / header / profile that lets me know you are an actual person.

REJECTION. I have a right to not answer your ask if it bothers me or if I do not agree with it. There will be dark content here, but there is also a line to cross. So if I do not answer your ask at all ( WITHIN THE SAME YEAR IT WAS SENT ), you know why. It is very rare that I do not answer an ask at all. If you are not sure whether Tumblr ate your ask or if I won't ever answer it, send it TWICE. If I don't answer still after two months, you know I have discarded your ask.

YANDERE. There will be yandere content in this blog, although it won't be all. I won't say whether it'll be the majority or not, I am merely stating that it will be present. If you are not comfortable with such topics, move on, and do not interact. Block the tag cranberry.ichor if you don't want to see yandere content of my blog.

ZERO SPOILERS. Do not give me spoilers regarding any series I list I am in, and if you are messaging me / sending an ask about a series unlisted, do not include spoilers. Unless I explicitly state otherwise, do not send anything that might be considered spoilers. With that set aside, feel free to discuss anything you like with me, whether it be ships, theories, or any particular headcanons you'd like for me to indulge in by writing for them.

GIVING A NUDGE. As I stated earlier, I don't follow a particular posting schedule, and as such, I will ask you don't rush me if you request anything. However, if a ridiculous amount of time has passed by (let's say, around 4 weeks or so) and I still have not published an ask you sent, feel free to nudge and ask if things are alright. As long as you're not nasty about it, I'm more than happy to give my reasoning for the time taken and why I'm not posting.

Side blogs - 1. @moonlitcravings ( full yandere blog ) 2. @tears-of-raindrop ( no smut blog )

C.AI account - 1. INCXRNADINE

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𓆩⟡𓆪 Fandoms 𓆩⟡𓆪

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chainsaw man [csm] vanitas no carte [vnc] pokémon [pkmn] honkai impact 3rd [hi3] haikyuu!! death note assassination classroom tokyo ghoul [tg] final fantasy xv final fantasy vii rebirth twisted wonderland

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wuthering waves [wuwa] genshin impact honkai: star rail [hsr] persona 5 [p5] fire emblem: three houses [fe3h] angels of death [snt] attack on titan [snk]

Important Note!

OC CONTENT. I'll be writing OC content here, so, do expect that. If you want me to write about my OCs, feel free to ask about it. I'll be willing to write depending on the request. I also write AUs, so, go wild.

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TAGS - when.angels.cry - will mostly be seen on random posts, whether it be answers to anonymous asks or posts about mundane subjects sugar.shot - FLUFF content vanilla.cream - NSFW content cranberry.ichor - YANDERE content saccharine.affinity - DARK content such as smut and yandere, but with content that some may find disturbing. ex: teratophilia, monster fucking, etc.

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[grahamstoney]

I Lied to the Guy from the Phone Company Today

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I Lied to the Guy from the Phone Company Today

OK, I admit it. I lied today. I don’t normally do that; I’m a terrible liar in fact. I’m sure it goes back to when I was a kid and how my mother could always tell when I was lying. She wasn’t the sort of person you wanted to get on the wrong side of. So I’m badly out of practice. But I’m working on it.

Or rather, I’ve actually been working on becoming a more persuasive and powerful communicator. I’ve joined Toastmasters. I’m doing workshops on public speaking, sales and marketing. I’m reading The 48 Laws of Power. This last one is all a bit Machiavellian for me, and if taken literally the laws involve a lot more deception than I’m really comfortable with. But I’m learning. And today it came in handy.

I decided that time to get ADSL2+ broadband is long overdue, but there’s a problem: my phone number isn’t “portable”. A couple of Internet and phone companies with better deals than my current provider told me I can’t switch to them unless I get a new number. I wasn’t all that keen on having to change phone numbers, tell everyone I know and reprint 2000 business cards. So I thought I’d just stick with my current phone company despite the extra cost. I gave them a call, and talked to a helpful sales consultant. Let’s call him Jesse, because that’s what his name was. Jesse was very friendly, and about as helpful as someone could be while explaining that they couldn’t possibly do what I really wanted. Even though I’m an existing customer, they couldn’t transfer the number to their new ADSL2+ equipment in the telephone exchange. So no matter what I did, I needed a new phone number in order to get ADSL2+. My only reason for sticking with them in the first place was the vain hope that I wouldn’t have to change phone numbers, and with this hope dashed I decided I might as well switch carriers as well and get the better deal.

After about 45 minutes of going through the scenarios with Jesse, I concluded that the simplest solution was to get my current phone company to change my phone number, and then switch to the new cheaper guys once that was done. Now Jesse couldn’t do this directly because he was from the sales department. But he could put me through to the service department that could help me. Jesse suggested that to avoid having to go through the whole rigmarole again, I just tell the guy in the service department that I want to change phone numbers because I’m getting nuisance calls. In other words, he suggested I lie.

Jesse put my call straight through to a guy in the phone company’s customer service department, who I’ll call Manesh, because once again that was his name. I liked Manesh, because he engaged in a little small-talk to build rapport with me, and he didn’t pretend that he wasn’t in a call center in India. “How’s the weather over there today?” he asked.

“Good, good, thanks.”, I replied honestly while planning my deception.

“Great, because it was 44 degrees here in India yesterday!”. He seemed a friendly straight-shooter, and I liked him immediately.

“So what can I do for you today?”, he asked cheerfully.

“Well, you see, I’m getting all these harassing phone calls and I’m really over it. So I want to change my phone number please”, I lied. Straight into it. Felt pretty good too, I must say. Confident, and strong.

Manesh took pity on me, and was more than happy to relieve me of these bogus nuisance calls by changing my number. “I’ll even waive the number-change fee, given that it is a case of harassment”, he said. He went on to outline the procedure for police involvement if it continued after the change:

“Oh, I really hope that won’t be necessary, but thanks so much for letting me know just in case.”

Manesh also suggested a silent/unlisted number, at extra charge. Given that I’m not running from any underworld figures and have a fairly mundane life that doesn’t generally make me the target of hatred from strangers, I’d rather not be unlisted. I kind of like the idea that friends, even ones I haven’t met yet, can find me just by looking me up in the phone book. But what about my harassing caller? “Actually, I think it’s some sort of fax machine or modem that keeps ringing me every 10 minutes. So I don’t really need an unlisted number.”, the lie grew.

He was pretty cool with that, and initiated the number change. Then he suggested I could get my old number redirected to the new one. “You can do that? Yeah, that would be great!” I enthused. That way friends who don’t know I’ve changed my number can still get in touch.

Oh, but what about that nuisance caller? “Sorry… you won’t want to redirect your old number because then the nuisance caller will still come straight through to you.”, Manesh pointed out helpfully. No, of course not. Well, actually…

A little more deliberation and Manesh mentioned that I could have a recorded message on my old number, redirection, or both. “A recorded message would be great, because I think it’s just a fax machine hassling me. A machine won’t get the message, but other people will be able to find my new number. Yeah, let’s go with a recorded message. Can I change it to redirect the calls later, if the nuisance caller stops?”

“Of course.”

“Great!”

“OK, I’ve put your request into the system as an emergency request because of your nuisance caller. It should be changed within 24 hours. I will ring you back tomorrow to organize the redirection message.”

“You’ll ring me?”

“Yes Sir”, Manesh replied in perfect Indian English.

Wow. I couldn’t believe it. None of this waiting-on-hold-for-hours crap. They were going to ring me. My previous major interaction with this same company 4 years ago didn’t go anywhere near this well: I was moving house and wanted to keep my existing Internet address and phone number; apparently an “unusual” request according to their complaints department to whom I eventually had to go in order to get what I wanted.

This time, I got what I wanted much more easily just by lying. I only had to lie a little though; it’s not that bad, is it? And it saved us both a whole heap of time. But it bothers me that I live in a world where some things just go more smoothly when you lie. It shouldn’t be like that. People should be honest. Other people should respect that. I should get what I want be being straight with people up-front. This should always work in every relationship I have.

Oh-oh; I’m should-ing all over myself again. Life is easier and ultimately less frustrating and/or stressful when I can accept that things are the way they are, not the way I think they should be. Odd that I should learn this lesson once again by, of all things, lying to the phone company though.

[pinksilvace]

5, 7 and 21!

5. How many words do you write per day?

I try to write a consistent 500-850 words per day! I typically track them using the nanowrimo website, so it fluctuates, but I'll set a month for 20k-25k words or so. It's nice that the end of the month has a smaller daily number when I do that.

7. Favourite writing advice?

To Just Do It. It's really hard, and it might stink, but who cares? You can always edit the bad parts out later. Some of my biggest writing sessions have come on days that I thought I wouldn't want to write on at all. You never know until you get started. You never improve until you go.

21. Do you ever want to write a novel/original work?

I actually self-published a work in my junior year of high school! It's unlisted now because it wasn't that great and there are a lot of tweaks I need to make, but getting the work out there was a good experience regardless. There's a second story I've written that I'm currently working on the first edit of.

[borismann]

One feed to rule them all - now cross posting to this blog

Time for another blogging about blogging and Mastodon’ing.

It turns out you can import posts made to Mastodon into your own Micro.blog.

So I did! Both @boris@toolsforthought.rocks and @bmann@social.coop RSS feeds are being imported here.

I also turned off cross posting to Social Coop, because that would cause a time loop ;)

This means that with current settings, you can subscribe to this blog’s RSS feed and get all of my posts across local Micro.blog posts (like this one) and those two Mastodon accounts.

There is a “blog only” feed that I’ll need to figure out around these long posts — but they’ve been in short supply over the past several years!

Blog to Mastodon and Back Again

You can search for and follow the blog directly on ActivityPub systems at @boris@blog.bmannconsulting.com 1.

Screenshot of how the blog profile looks in MetaText on iOS

Erratta

It’s not at all perfect yet.

There is something strange where Markdown is inconsistently parsed.

For this post on the blog, italics were applied, but the asterisks weren’t transformed into an unordered list.

And the URLs were not correctly linked.

And only the first photo was included, not all four.

See [original on social.coop](https://

social.coop/@bmann/109496328943570699).

For Twitter cross-posting (which goes Mastodon -> Micro.blog import -> Micro.blog Twitter cross-posting), this may cause all sorts of things to happen. Sorry Twitter readers!

Feature Requests: Only import public posts

This post is an unlisted reply but got imported.

Ideally only public posts would be imported. This isn’t a cross posting tool, so I wouldn’t get much more complex than that.2

Mastodon RSS

This is a side effect of taking whatever comes out of a Mastodon RSS feed. I’ll have to dig into all of the errata and other items to understand what’s in the feed, how it’s represented, how the content might be escaped or marked up as structured data.

Micro.blog would need to run a whole bunch of parsing tools to handle these cases. At the same time, there’s likely a good case for a shared library here.

And of course — it’s a bit of a hack. ActivityStreams are a different, arguably richer vocabulary which natively contains all this information. Squeezing it into RSS isn’t necessarily the right thing to do.

Up Next

I’ve still got 3 conversions of my bmannconsulting.com site underway. It will likely end up being on LogSeq with GitHub Actions publishing.

And finally, my FoodWiki. It’s now statically published TiddlyWiki, also with GitHub Actions.

It doesn’t yet have an RSS feed, but it will, and will likely also get folded into this main feed.

But Why????

Im experimenting, as I often do when these social network and posting systems evolve.

For me, I can have rich posting interfaces on my phone for short microbloggy posts across a number of topics, as well as long form blog posts, and I get one archive. The one archive may be the least interesting - especially if it lightly mangles posts and misses images.

If anyone out there in RSS land hates it, let me know!

The direct link on the web to follow the blog is managed by micro.blog. You can’t really go to a profile page directly. [return]

I help maintain Moa.Party which is a cross posting tool. People would like many different options and toggles, making the interface very confusing. [return]

[finnapnl713]

A Reliable Therapy to Help Clients Cope With the Neurological Disorder Dystonia

"I would not be an excellent attorney unless I prefaced this short article by disclaimers:

1) Marijuana is still a controlled schedule I substance and is also illegal in the eyes in the Federal Government in the United States;

2) This article is never to be construed as legal advice, nor is intended to take the place in the advice of an attorney, and you will talk to a legal professional before taking any actions in furtherance in the subject theme of this informative article. Ok, let's begin.

In the month of November, the State of Arizona passed Proposition wendover weed store 203, which would exempt certain people from controlled substances laws inside State of Arizona. However, it's going to still take a moment before medical marijuana is implemented as policy in Arizona. The Arizona Department of Health Services has released a proposed timeline to the drafting in the rules all around the implementation of Proposition 203. So far, fundamental essentials important routines that needs to be paid close awareness of:

December 17, 2010: The first draft with the medical marijuana rules must be released making it readily available for touch upon this date.

January 7, 2011: This will likely be the deadline for public comment on the first draft of rules stated previously.

January 31, 2011: The second draft with the rules will be released on this date. Once again, it is going to be intended for informal comment as in the draft referred to above.

February 21 to March 18, 2011: More formal public hearings is going to be held in regards to the proposed rules currently, after which it a final rules is going to be published to the Secretary of State making it public about the Office of Administrative Rules website.

April 2011: The medical cannabis rules should go into effect and be published within the Arizona Administrative Register.

It is very important that always during the entire consultation process, your customers submit briefs and/or make oral presentations when permitted. Groups with interests unlike that regarding medical cannabis advocates can also be making presentations, and could convince the State to unnecessarily restrict the substance or those that may qualify gain access to it if you have no voice to advocate in support of patients' rights.

Some key points about Proposition 203's effects

-Physicians may prescribe medical marijuana for patients under certain conditions. ""Physician"" is not defined in ways limited to normal health professionals. Osteopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 17; naturopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 14; and homeopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 29 may all be permitted recommend marijuana because of their patients.

-In order to be prescribed medical cannabis, an individual has to be a ""qualifying patient."" A qualifying patient means an agent who has been diagnosed by a ""physician"" (as defined above) as developing a ""debilitating problem.""

-Debilitating health conditions include:

* Cancer, glaucoma, HIV positive status, AIDS, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, or agitation of Alzheimer's disease or the treatments for these conditions.

* A chronic or debilitating disease or medical problem or its treatment who makes one or more with the following: Cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe and chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures, including those sign of epilepsy; or severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those manifestation of multiple sclerosis.

* Any other medical problem or its treatment added from the Department of Health Services pursuant to Section 36-2801.01.

This last qualifying condition is underlined because it is vitally important in the rulemaking process. Although Proposition 203 allows for your public to petition the Department of Health Services to exercise its discretion to incorporate conditions under this section, bureaucracy is notoriously rare to find to alter any law. The initial discretionary rules for further treatments might be exercised through the public consultations that occur between December and March, though this isn't certain.

It is therefore crucial that, inside the event that incorporating health concerns is recognized as through the consultations, any stakeholder who wishes for the medical problem unlisted inside the initial two bulleted items above to lobby through the public consultation periods for that Department to provide the excess medical problem towards the report on debilitating medical conditions. In order to boost the prestige from a presentations created to justify adding medical conditions under Section 36-2801.01, it may be beneficial to solicit the testimony of sympathetic Arizona-licensed medical doctors who is able to testify in writing possibly at people hearings about why the proposed condition ought to be added. Documents showing that other jurisdictions, both inside the United States and elsewhere, currently use marijuana being a treatment for the proposed condition could be helpful, as would medical journals on the subject.

It ought to be remembered that despite his cheery YouTube videos concerning the medical cannabis rule drafting process, Director of Health Services Will Humble wrote a submission in opposition on the passing of Proposition 203. He accomplished it around the grounds how the FDA doesn't test the drug, and even though the federal government's anti-marijuana policy is well-known it should stop relied on being an authority for unbiased medical cannabis research. There is no reason to imagine that Director Humble will likely be any less inclined to obstruct the usage of medicinal marijuana in the rulemaking stage, and proponents of medical cannabis needs to be likely to make their voices heard on the consultations to stop the obstruction from the intent of Proposition 203.

Extent of Rulemaking during Consultations

There are also provisions in Proposition 203 which is going to be discussed in the initial rulemaking process, and they'll oftimes be the main focus from the consultations. The consultations will create rules:

* Governing the way in which the Department of Health Services will accept the petitions from the population earlier mentioned, regarding digging in health conditions to the list with the already enshrined debilitating health concerns.

* Establishing the design and content of registration and renewal applications submitted within the medical marijuana law.

* Governing the way the location where the Department will consider applications for and renewals of medical cannabis ID cards.

* Governing various aspects round the newly legalized nonprofit medical cannabis dispensaries, including recordkeeping, security, oversight, and other requirements.

* Establishing the fees for patient applications and medical cannabis dispensary applications.

The vital part from the consultation period will likely be concerning the rules governing the establishment and oversight of medicinal marijuana dispensaries. If interest groups lobby the Department to make the recordkeeping, security, oversight, and also other requirements around dispensaries too restrictive, it is going to have the effects of reducing the use of medical cannabis to patients and driving up the cost of medical cannabis due on the not enough supply. It could simply become too costly to conform to all from the regulations.

During this stage, it is very important that stakeholders-particularly medical cannabis dispensaries from out-of-state, and perhaps pharmacists which has a little economic knowledge-submit briefs explaining why certain proposed rules may have a negative effect for the patients this Proposition really should help. The proposed rules have not turn out yet, however, if they are doing, they should be closely scrutinized for your possible negative impact that unnecessarily tough security and recordkeeping on nonprofit dispensaries might have on patients.

The other major factor inside rulemaking will need to do using the fees. The Department will likely be setting fees for medical cannabis dispensaries through the consultation period. Proposition 203 provides the fees may well not exceed $5,000 per initial application, and $1,000 per renewal. However, with a few lobbying in the public consultation, it is possible that the actual fees will be significantly less website traffic are simply the maximum how the Department may charge.

Discrimination against Medical Marijuana Users

Under Proposition 203, discrimination against medical cannabis users will likely be prohibited in certain situations. Based on our analysis, a person might not exactly:

* As a school or landlord, don't enroll someone or else penalize them solely for his or her status like a medicinal marijuana cardholder, unless not doing this would result inside lack of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations.

* As an employer, discriminate against hiring someone, or terminate them or impose any conditions to them because they're a medicinal marijuana cardholder, unless not doing so would result within the loss of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations. Employers can always terminate employees if the employee is possession of or impaired by marijuana on the premises with the office or throughout the hours of employment.

* As a health care bills provider, discriminate against a cardholder, including in matters of organ transplants. Medical marijuana has to be treated just like any other medication prescribed with a physician.

* Be prevented, like a cardholder, from having visitation custody or visitation or parenting time having a minor, unless the cardholder's behavior ""creates an unreasonable danger for the safety from the minor as established by clear and convincing evidence.""

Although there are particular prohibitions on discrimination, there's also provisions that allow discrimination against medicinal marijuana cardholders:

* Government medical attention programs and private health insurers aren't required to reimburse somebody for their medical cannabis use.

* Nobody who possesses property, including business people, is needed to allow medicinal marijuana on their own premises (this seemingly includes landlords who, but they cannot refuse tenants based on the being a cardholder, are permitted in order to avoid cardholders from bringing marijuana to the landlord's property).

* Employers are certainly not forced to allow cardholders to become underneath the influence of or ingest marijuana while working, the presence of marijuana within the body which isn't of your sufficient concentration to cause impairment will not establish being underneath the influence of it.

Rules Related to the Establishment of Dispensaries

Although the ultimate rules around security, recordkeeping, and also other requirements for medicinal marijuana dispensaries will not be established until April 2011, a number of requirements which can be enshrined in Proposition 203 itself and can be known ahead from the time that the final rules appear. These minimal requirements may well not be as restrictive as the ultimate requirements which are published in April 2011.

* Medical marijuana dispensaries have to be nonprofit. They will need to have bylaws which preserve their nonprofit nature, though they desire not considered tax-exempt with the IRS, nor must they be incorporated.

* The operating documents in the dispensaries must include provisions to the oversight of the dispensary and then for accurate recordkeeping.

* The dispensary must have just one secure entrance and must implement appropriate security measures to deter which will help prevent the theft of marijuana and unauthorized access to areas containing marijuana.

* A dispensary must not acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana for just about any purpose other than providing it straight away to a cardholder as well as to a registered caregiver for your cardholder.

* All cultivation of marijuana need to take place only at a locked, enclosed facility at a home address provided to the Department of Health Services throughout the application process, and accessible only by dispensary agents registered with all the Department.

* A dispensary can acquire marijuana from the patient of these caregiver, but only in the event the patient or caregiver receives no compensation because of it.

* No use of marijuana is permitted around the property from the dispensary.

* A dispensary is susceptible to reasonable inspection through the Department of Health Services. The Department must first give reasonable notice with the inspection on the dispensary.

Comparison to California's Medical Marijuana Law

The Arizona law is simply by no means the same because law in California. There are certainly some differences involving the two, though in most respects these are comparable. This is a comparative analysis with the two laws.

Similarities:

* Both laws, as a practical matter, permit broad discretion for the part of the physician to prescribe marijuana to patients that suffer from pain. In the Arizona law, ""severe and chronic pain"" may be the legislated standard. In the California law, any ""chronic or persistent medical symptom"" that substantially limits the life of the patient to conduct one or more major life activities as defined with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, or if not alleviated, can cause serious harm on the patient's physical or mental safety, qualifies.

* Both laws have numerous illnesses that are automatically considered qualifying illnesses for the prescription of medicinal marijuana. These include, but aren't restricted to, AIDS, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, persistent muscle spasms, seizures, and severe nausea.

* Both laws need the use of the identification card by those who have been prescribed medicinal marijuana, following your cardholders already went through a an initial application process when the use of the drug has been recommended by way of a physician.

* Both states do not factor in the unusable portion from the marijuana plant in determining the absolute maximum weight of marijuana that is permissible for possession by the cardholder.

Differences:

* Though the rules have never been finalized, the Arizona law appears as though it is going to be regulated for the state level and for that reason uniform across Arizona. The California law, however, is regulated significantly about the municipal level, and so the rules around dispensaries can vary greatly from municipality towards the next.

* The Arizona law offers a broader spectrum of people that are viewed a ""physician"" for that purpose of prescribing medicinal marijuana. In California, only physicians and osteopaths are considered being physicians. In Arizona, in addition to medical doctors and osteopaths, naturopaths and homeopaths will also be permitted prescribe medical marijuana.

* In California, patients or their caregivers may grow marijuana plants instead of utilizing a medicinal marijuana dispensary. In Arizona, patients may only grow marijuana or designate another individual to take action in place of traversing to a dispensary around the condition that there is no dispensary operating within 25 miles with the patient's home.

* The maximum possession limit for marijuana in California is eight ounces per patient, whereas the limit is just 2.5 ounces per patient in Arizona.

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[tysonerpt644]

Legitimately Get Your Medical Cannabis Card in Colorado

"I wouldn't be a good attorney unless I prefaced this short article by incorporating disclaimers:

1) Marijuana is still a controlled schedule I substance and is also illegal in the eyes with the Federal Government of the United States;

2) This article is to not be construed as legal counsel, nor is supposed to take the place of the advice of your attorney, and you ought to seek advice from a legal professional when considering any actions in furtherance with the subject theme of this information. Ok, let's begin.

In the month of November, the State of Arizona passed Proposition 203, which may exempt certain people from controlled substances laws within the State of Arizona. However, it's going to still take time before medical cannabis is implemented as policy in Arizona. The Arizona Department of Health Services has released a proposed timeline for that drafting in the rules all around the implementation of Proposition 203. So far, fundamental essentials important periods of time that ought to be paid close attention to:

December 17, 2010: The first draft with the medical marijuana rules must be released and made available for discuss this date.

January 7, 2011: This will probably be the deadline for public touch upon the 1st draft of rules stated previously.

January 31, 2011: The second draft of the rules will likely be released about this date. Once again, it's going to be readily available for informal comment as inside the draft known as above.

February 21 to March 18, 2011: More formal public hearings is going to be held concerning the proposed rules at the moment, and the ultimate rules will likely be published to the Secretary of State generating public for the Office of Administrative Rules website.

April 2011: The medical marijuana rules will go into effect and be published in the Arizona Administrative Register.

It is very important that constantly during the entire consultation process, interested parties submit briefs and/or make oral presentations when permitted. Groups with interests unlike the ones from medicinal marijuana advocates can be making presentations, and might convince the State to unnecessarily restrict the substance or people who may qualify to access it when there is no voice to advocate in favor of patients' rights.

Some blueprint about Proposition 203's effects

-Physicians may prescribe medical marijuana for patients under certain conditions. ""Physician"" isn't defined in ways limited to normal physicians. Osteopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 17; naturopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 14; and homeopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 29 may all be permitted recommend marijuana for their patients.

-In order to be prescribed medical marijuana, an individual should be a ""qualifying patient."" A qualifying patient is understood to be someone who has been diagnosed by way of a ""physician"" (as defined above) as using a ""debilitating medical condition.""

-Debilitating health conditions include:

* Cancer, glaucoma, HIV positive status, AIDS, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, or agitation of Alzheimer's disease or even the treating these conditions.

* A chronic or debilitating disease or medical problem or its treatment that creates one or more of the following: Cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe and chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy; or severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those manifestation of multiple sclerosis.

* Any other medical condition or its treatment added by the Department of Health Services pursuant to Section 36-2801.01.

This last qualifying condition is underlined because it's important throughout the rulemaking process. Although Proposition 203 allows for that public to petition the Department of Health Services to exercise its discretion to include conditions under this section, bureaucracy is notoriously rare to find to change any law. The initial discretionary rules for further treatments could possibly be exercised during the public consultations that occur between December and March, though this is just not certain.

It is therefore essential that, within the event that incorporating medical ailments is known as during the consultations, any stakeholder who wishes for any medical condition unlisted within the first 2 bulleted items above to lobby in the public consultation periods for that Department to add the excess condition to the listing of debilitating medical conditions. In order to boost the prestige of the presentations designed to justify adding medical conditions under Section 36-2801.01, it can be helpful to solicit the testimony of sympathetic Arizona-licensed health professionals who can testify in some recoverable format and also at the population hearings about why the proposed condition needs to be added. Documents showing that other jurisdictions, both in the United States and elsewhere, currently use marijuana being a treatment for the proposed condition could possibly be helpful, as would medical journals on the subject.

It needs to be remembered that despite his cheery YouTube videos concerning the medical cannabis rule drafting process, Director of Health Services Will Humble wrote a submission in opposition on the passing of Proposition 203. He managed it on the grounds that the FDA will not test the drug, although the federal government's anti-marijuana policy is well-known it should 't be relied on as an authority for unbiased medical cannabis research. There is no reason to think that Director Humble will be any less inclined to obstruct the use of medical marijuana throughout the rulemaking stage, and proponents of medical marijuana ought to be guaranteed to make their voices heard on the consultations to prevent the obstruction of the intent of Proposition 203.

Extent of Rulemaking during Consultations

There is also provisions in Proposition 203 which will probably be discussed through the initial rulemaking process, and they'll likely to end up the main objective of the consultations. The consultations can create rules:

* Governing the way the location where the Department of Health Services encourage the petitions from people earlier mentioned, regarding incorporating health conditions to the list from the already enshrined debilitating health conditions.

* Establishing the design and content of registration and renewal applications submitted within the medical cannabis law.

* Governing the way in which the location where the Department will consider applications for and renewals of medicinal marijuana ID cards.

* Governing the different aspects around the newly legalized nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries, including recordkeeping, security, oversight, along with other requirements.

* Establishing the fees for patient applications and medical cannabis dispensary applications.

The vital part of the consultation period will likely be about the rules governing the establishment and oversight of medical cannabis dispensaries. If interest groups lobby the Department to make the recordkeeping, security, oversight, along with other requirements around dispensaries too restrictive, it's going to have the effect of decreasing the availability of medical cannabis to patients and driving inside the cost of medicinal marijuana due towards the not enough supply. It could simply become very expensive to conform to all from the regulations.

During this stage, it is vital that stakeholders-particularly medical cannabis dispensaries from out-of-state, and perhaps pharmacists which has a little bit of economic knowledge-submit briefs explaining why certain proposed rules may have a negative effect for the patients this Proposition should certainly help. The proposed rules have never emerge yet, however, if they do, they must be closely scrutinized for your possible negative impact that unnecessarily tough security and recordkeeping on nonprofit dispensaries probably have on patients.

The other major factor inside rulemaking should do while using fees. The Department will probably be setting fees for medicinal marijuana dispensaries during the consultation period. Proposition 203 provides how the fees might not exceed $5,000 per initial application, and $1,000 per renewal. However, with a few lobbying through the public consultation, it is possible that the actual fees is going to be a smaller amount since these are simply just the utmost the Department may charge.

Discrimination against Medical Marijuana Users

Under Proposition 203, discrimination against medical cannabis users will likely be prohibited in specific situations. Based on our analysis, somebody may not:

* As a school or landlord, won't enroll someone or otherwise not penalize them solely for his or her status being a medicinal marijuana cardholder, unless not the process would result in the decrease of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations.

* As an employer, discriminate against hiring someone, or terminate them or impose any conditions on them because they are a medicinal marijuana cardholder, unless not this would result inside the decrease of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations. Employers might still terminate employees when the employee is within having or impaired by marijuana around the premises with the place of employment or during the hours of employment.

* As a health care bills provider, discriminate against a cardholder, including in matters of organ transplants. Medical marijuana has to be treated every other medication prescribed by the physician.

* Be prevented, being a cardholder, from having visitation custody or visitation or parenting time having a minor, unless the cardholder's behavior ""creates an unreasonable danger on the safety of the minor as established by clear and convincing evidence.""

Although there are particular prohibitions on discrimination, in addition there are provisions which permit discrimination against medical cannabis cardholders:

* Government medical attention programs and private health insurers are not needed to reimburse somebody for medical marijuana use.

* Nobody who possesses property, including businesses, is required to allow medical cannabis on his or her premises (this seemingly includes landlords who, but they cannot refuse tenants based on their own like a cardholder, are permitted to avoid cardholders from bringing marijuana on top of the landlord's property).

* Employers usually are not necessary to allow cardholders being under the influence of or ingest marijuana while working, though the presence of marijuana in the body which is just not of an sufficient concentration to cause impairment does not establish being within the influence of it.

Rules Related to the Establishment of Dispensaries

Although a final rules around security, recordkeeping, and other requirements for medical cannabis dispensaries will never be established until April 2011, there are particular requirements which can be enshrined in Proposition 203 itself which enable it to be known ahead from the time that a final rules emerge. These minimal requirements may well not be as restrictive as the ultimate requirements which can be published in April 2011.

* Medical marijuana dispensaries should be nonprofit. They should have bylaws which preserve their nonprofit nature, though they need stop considered tax-exempt from the IRS, nor must they be incorporated.

* The operating documents from the dispensaries must include provisions for the oversight in the dispensary as well as accurate recordkeeping.

* The dispensary have to have an individual secure entrance and must implement appropriate security measures to deter and prevent the theft of marijuana and unauthorized use of areas containing marijuana.

* A dispensary should not acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana for almost any purpose other than providing it directly to a cardholder in order to a registered caregiver for that cardholder.

* All cultivation of marijuana must take place only with a locked, enclosed facility in a home address provided to the Department of Health Services throughout the application process, and accessible only by dispensary agents registered using the Department.

* A dispensary can acquire marijuana coming from a patient of the caregiver, but only when the patient or caregiver receives no compensation because of it.

* No utilization of marijuana is permitted on the property in the dispensary.

* A dispensary is be subject to reasonable inspection from the Department of Health Services. The Department must first give reasonable notice of the inspection on the dispensary.

Comparison to California's Medical Marijuana Law

The Arizona law is by no means the same because law in California. There are certainly some differences relating to the two, though in certain respects these are comparable. This is a comparative analysis from the two laws.

Similarities:

* Both laws, like a practical matter, permit broad discretion on the part of your physician to prescribe marijuana to patients who suffer from pain. In the Arizona law, ""severe and chronic pain"" is the legislated standard. In the California law, any ""chronic or persistent medical symptom"" that substantially limits lifespan of the patient to conduct a number of major life activities as defined through the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, or that if not alleviated, will cause serious harm for the patient's physical or mental safety, qualifies.

* Both laws have a number of illnesses that are automatically considered qualifying illnesses for that prescription of medical marijuana. These include, but are not restricted to, AIDS, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, persistent muscle spasms, seizures, and severe nausea.

* Both laws require use of the identification card by those that have been prescribed medical marijuana, wendover dispensary weed following your cardholders already went through a an initial application process in which the use from the drug continues to be recommended by way of a physician.

* Both states do not factor in the unusable portion from the marijuana plant in determining the utmost weight of marijuana which is permissible for possession by a cardholder.

Differences:

* Though the rules have not been finalized, the Arizona law appears as though it's going to be regulated for the state level and therefore uniform across Arizona. The California law, however, is regulated significantly about the municipal level, and so the rules around dispensaries can differ greatly from municipality for the next.

* The Arizona law gives a broader spectrum of people who are considered a ""physician"" for that purpose of prescribing medicinal marijuana. In California, only medical professionals and osteopaths are believed to get physicians. In Arizona, along with medical doctors and osteopaths, naturopaths and homeopaths is likewise permitted to prescribe medicinal marijuana.

* In California, patients or their caregivers may grow marijuana plants in place of by using a medical marijuana dispensary. In Arizona, patients may grow marijuana or designate another individual for this in lieu of traversing to a dispensary about the condition that there's no dispensary operating within 25 miles from the patient's home.

* The maximum possession limit for marijuana in California is eight ounces per patient, whereas the limit is just 2.5 ounces per patient in Arizona.

"

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Use Medical Marijuana

"I couldn't survive a great attorney unless I prefaced this information by disclaimers:

1) Marijuana remains a controlled schedule I substance and is illegal in the eyes in the Federal Government in the United States;

2) This article is to not be construed as legal services, nor is supposed to take the place of the advice associated with an attorney, and you ought to consult with a lawyer when considering any actions in furtherance of the subject theme of this article. Ok, let's begin.

In the month of November, the State of Arizona passed Proposition 203, which would exempt certain people from controlled substances laws inside the State of Arizona. However, it is going to still take the time before medical cannabis is implemented as policy in Arizona. The Arizona Department of Health Services has released a proposed timeline to the drafting of the rules all around the implementation of Proposition 203. So far, fundamental essentials important cycles that ought to be paid close awareness of:

December 17, 2010: The first draft of the medical marijuana rules should be released and made intended for reply to this date.

January 7, 2011: This is going to be the deadline for public touch upon the first draft of rules mentioned above.

January 31, 2011: The second draft with the rules will likely be released with this date. Once again, it's going to be designed for informal comment as within the draft referred to above.

February 21 to March 18, 2011: More formal public hearings will probably be held in regards to the proposed rules currently, after which it the final rules will probably be published to the Secretary of State making it public on the Office of Administrative Rules website.

April 2011: The medical cannabis rules goes into effect and turn into published within the Arizona Administrative Register.

It is very important that at all times throughout the consultation process, your customers submit briefs and/or make oral presentations when permitted. Groups with interests contrary to that relating to medicinal marijuana advocates are often making presentations, and could convince the State to unnecessarily restrict the substance or people that may qualify to get into it when there is no voice to advocate for patients' rights.

Some outline about Proposition 203's effects

-Physicians may prescribe medical cannabis for their patients under certain conditions. ""Physician"" is not defined in a way restricted to normal medical professionals. Osteopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 17; naturopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 14; and homeopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 29 may all be permitted to recommend marijuana for patients.

-In order being prescribed medical marijuana, a person must be a ""qualifying patient."" A qualifying patient is described as someone who has been diagnosed with a ""physician"" (as defined above) as developing a ""debilitating problem.""

-Debilitating medical conditions include:

* Cancer, glaucoma, HIV positive status, AIDS, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, or agitation of Alzheimer's disease or perhaps the treatments for these conditions.

* A chronic or debilitating disease or condition or its treatment that creates more than one in the following: Cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe and chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures, including those sign of epilepsy; or severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those characteristic of multiple sclerosis.

* Any other medical condition or its treatment added through the Department of Health Services pursuant to Section 36-2801.01.

This last qualifying condition is underlined since it is important in the rulemaking process. Although Proposition 203 allows for the public to petition the Department of Health Services to exercise its discretion to add conditions under it, bureaucracy is notoriously difficult to acquire to improve any law. The initial discretionary rules for additional treatments may be exercised in the public consultations that occur between December and March, though this isn't certain.

It is therefore crucial that, inside event that adding medical conditions is recognized as in the consultations, any stakeholder who wants for a medical problem unlisted inside initial two bulleted items above to lobby in the public consultation periods for the Department to include the additional condition towards the listing of debilitating medical conditions. In order to raise the prestige from a presentations designed to justify adding health concerns under Section 36-2801.01, it may be helpful to solicit the testimony of sympathetic Arizona-licensed medical doctors that can testify on paper at the population hearings about why the proposed condition should be added. Documents showing that other jurisdictions, both in the United States and elsewhere, currently use marijuana as a treatment to the proposed condition could possibly be helpful, as would medical journals on the subject.

It needs to be remembered that despite his cheery YouTube videos in regards to the medical cannabis rule drafting process, Director of Health Services Will Humble wrote a submission in opposition towards the passing of Proposition 203. He managed it for the grounds how the FDA won't test the drug, although the federal government's anti-marijuana policy is well-known it should 't be used being an authority for unbiased medical cannabis research. There is no reason to believe that Director Humble will probably be any less inclined to obstruct using medical cannabis in the rulemaking stage, and proponents of medical marijuana needs to be likely to make their voices heard in the consultations in order to avoid the obstruction in the intent of Proposition 203.

Extent of Rulemaking during Consultations

There is also another provisions in Proposition 203 which will likely be discussed in the initial rulemaking process, and they're going to apt to be the target from the consultations. The consultations can provide rules:

* Governing the manner the location where the Department of Health Services encourage the petitions from people mentioned earlier on, regarding incorporating medical conditions for the list in the already enshrined debilitating health concerns.

* Establishing the design and content of registration and renewal applications submitted under the medicinal marijuana law.

* Governing the way where the Department will consider applications for and renewals of medical marijuana ID cards.

* Governing the many aspects round the newly legalized nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries, including recordkeeping, security, oversight, and also other requirements.

* Establishing the fees for patient applications and medicinal marijuana dispensary applications.

The most important part in the consultation period will be in connection with rules governing the establishment and oversight of medicinal marijuana dispensaries. If interest groups lobby the Department to generate the recordkeeping, security, oversight, and other requirements around dispensaries too restrictive, it is going to have the effect of decreasing the option of medicinal marijuana to patients and driving inside the tariff of medical marijuana due on the not enough supply. It could simply become expensive to adhere to all in the regulations.

During this stage, it is very important that stakeholders-particularly medical cannabis dispensaries from out-of-state, as well as perhaps pharmacists having a amount of economic knowledge-submit briefs explaining why certain proposed rules could have a negative effect about the patients this Proposition should really help. The proposed rules never have come out yet, but when they actually do, they ought to be closely scrutinized for the possible negative impact that unnecessarily tough security and recordkeeping on nonprofit dispensaries could have on patients.

The other major factor in the rulemaking must do while using fees. The Department will probably be setting fees for medical cannabis dispensaries in the consultation period. Proposition 203 provides how the fees may well not exceed $5,000 per initial application, and $1,000 per renewal. However, with many lobbying during the public consultation, it will be possible how the actual fees will probably be much less since these are only the utmost that this Department may charge.

Discrimination against Medical Marijuana Users

Under Proposition 203, discrimination against medical cannabis users will likely be prohibited in certain situations. Based on cbd products newtown our analysis, somebody might not exactly:

* As a school or landlord, don't enroll someone you aren't penalize them solely for his or her status as being a medical marijuana cardholder, unless not doing so would result inside loss of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations.

* As an employer, discriminate against hiring someone, or terminate them or impose any conditions on them as they are a medical marijuana cardholder, unless not doing this would result within the decrease of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations. Employers can always terminate employees in the event the employee is in possessing or impaired by marijuana around the premises of the job or during the hours of employment.

* As a health care bills provider, discriminate against a cardholder, including in matters of organ transplants. Medical marijuana have to be treated every other medication prescribed by way of a physician.

* Be prevented, as a cardholder, from having visitation custody or visitation or parenting time using a minor, unless the cardholder's behavior ""creates an unreasonable danger for the safety from the minor as established by clear and convincing evidence.""

Although there are certain prohibitions on discrimination, there are also provisions which permit discrimination against medical cannabis cardholders:

* Government medical help programs and health insurers aren't required to reimburse an individual for his or her medical cannabis use.

* Nobody who possesses property, including business owners, is necessary to allow medical cannabis on their own premises (this seemingly includes landlords who, but they cannot refuse tenants based on his or her being a cardholder, are permitted in order to avoid cardholders from bringing marijuana to the landlord's property).

* Employers are certainly not required to allow cardholders to be within the influence of or ingest marijuana while working, although presence of marijuana inside body which is just not of your sufficient concentration to cause impairment doesn't establish being beneath the influence of it.

Rules Related to the Establishment of Dispensaries

Although the ultimate rules around security, recordkeeping, along with other requirements for medicinal marijuana dispensaries are not established until April 2011, there are certain requirements which are enshrined in Proposition 203 itself and will be known ahead in the time that a final rules come out. These minimal requirements might not exactly be as restrictive as the ultimate requirements which are published in April 2011.

* Medical marijuana dispensaries must be nonprofit. They must have bylaws which preserve their nonprofit nature, though they want not be considered tax-exempt through the IRS, nor must they be incorporated.

* The operating documents from the dispensaries must include provisions to the oversight in the dispensary as well as accurate recordkeeping.

* The dispensary should have an individual secure entrance and must implement appropriate security measures to deter and prevent the theft of marijuana and unauthorized entry to areas containing marijuana.

* A dispensary mustn't acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana for just about any purpose other than providing it right to a cardholder as well as to a registered caregiver for your cardholder.

* All cultivation of marijuana have to take place only in a locked, enclosed facility with a street address provided on the Department of Health Services in the application process, and accessible only by dispensary agents registered using the Department.

* A dispensary can buy marijuana from a patient of their caregiver, but only if the patient or caregiver receives no compensation for this.

* No utilization of marijuana is permitted about the property of the dispensary.

* A dispensary is at the mercy of reasonable inspection through the Department of Health Services. The Department must first give reasonable notice of the inspection on the dispensary.

Comparison to California's Medical Marijuana Law

The Arizona law is as simple as no means the same as the law in California. There are certainly some differences relating to the two, though in some respects they're comparable. This is a comparative analysis of the two laws.

Similarities:

* Both laws, as a practical matter, accommodate broad discretion around the part of an physician to prescribe marijuana to patients who are suffering from pain. In the Arizona law, ""severe and chronic pain"" could be the legislated standard. In the California law, any ""chronic or persistent medical symptom"" that substantially limits the life from the patient to conduct a number of major life activities as defined from the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, or if not alleviated, may cause serious harm towards the patient's physical or mental safety, qualifies.

* Both laws have numerous illnesses that are automatically considered qualifying illnesses to the prescription of medical cannabis. These include, but usually are not tied to, AIDS, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, persistent muscle spasms, seizures, and severe nausea.

* Both laws need the use associated with an identification card by those that have been prescribed medical marijuana, as soon as the cardholders have undergone a basic application process in which the use in the drug may be recommended by way of a physician.

* Both states do not factor in the unusable portion of the marijuana plant in determining the most weight of marijuana that is certainly permissible for possession by a cardholder.

Differences:

* Though the rules have not been finalized, the Arizona law appears as though it is going to be regulated for the state level and for that reason uniform across Arizona. The California law, however, is regulated significantly for the municipal level, and therefore the rules around dispensaries may differ greatly from one municipality towards the next.

* The Arizona law provides a broader spectrum of people which are considered a ""physician"" for that purpose of prescribing medicinal marijuana. In California, only physicians and osteopaths are considered to become physicians. In Arizona, together with medical doctors and osteopaths, naturopaths and homeopaths may also be able to prescribe medicinal marijuana.

* In California, patients or their caregivers may grow marijuana plants in lieu of utilizing a medical cannabis dispensary. In Arizona, patients may grow marijuana or designate somebody else for this instead of going to a dispensary around the condition there's no dispensary operating within 25 miles of the patient's home.

* The maximum possession limit for marijuana in California is eight ounces per patient, whereas the limit is just 2.5 ounces per patient in Arizona.

"

[johnathanjcwi365]

Colorado Medical Cannabis Dispensaries

"I would not be a great attorney unless I prefaced this article with a few disclaimers:

1) Marijuana remains a controlled schedule I cbd products newtown substance and it is illegal inside eyes with the Federal Government with the United States;

2) This article is to never be construed as legal counsel, nor is intended to take the place in the advice of the attorney, and you need to talk to legal counsel before thinking about actions in furtherance with the subject theme of this short article. Ok, let's begin.

In the month of November, the State of Arizona passed Proposition 203, which would exempt certain people from controlled substances laws inside the State of Arizona. However, it'll still take the time before medical marijuana is implemented as policy in Arizona. The Arizona Department of Health Services has released a proposed timeline for your drafting of the rules around the implementation of Proposition 203. So far, these are the basic important time periods that should be paid close focus on:

December 17, 2010: The first draft of the medical marijuana rules needs to be released and made designed for comment on this date.

January 7, 2011: This will be the deadline for public comment on the first draft of rules stated earlier.

January 31, 2011: The second draft of the rules will likely be released with this date. Once again, it will be available for informal comment as inside draft described above.

February 21 to March 18, 2011: More formal public hearings will be held about the proposed rules currently, then the final rules is going to be published to the Secretary of State making it public around the Office of Administrative Rules website.

April 2011: The medicinal marijuana rules should go into effect and turn into published inside the Arizona Administrative Register.

It is vital that always through the consultation process, your clients submit briefs and/or make oral presentations when permitted. Groups with interests as opposed to those of medical marijuana advocates may also be making presentations, and may convince the State to unnecessarily restrict the substance or those that may qualify to get into it if you have no voice to advocate in support of patients' rights.

Some tips about Proposition 203's effects

-Physicians may prescribe medicinal marijuana for patients under certain conditions. ""Physician"" is just not defined in such a way limited by normal physicians. Osteopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 17; naturopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 14; and homeopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 29 may all be permitted to recommend marijuana for patients.

-In order to get prescribed medicinal marijuana, an individual have to be a ""qualifying patient."" A qualifying patient means an agent who has been diagnosed with a ""physician"" (as defined above) as using a ""debilitating condition.""

-Debilitating medical ailments include:

* Cancer, glaucoma, HIV positive status, AIDS, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, or agitation of Alzheimer's disease or even the management of these conditions.

* A chronic or debilitating disease or problem or its treatment that produces a number of in the following: Cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe and chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy; or severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those manifestation of multiple sclerosis.

* Any other condition or its treatment added from the Department of Health Services pursuant to Section 36-2801.01.

This last qualifying condition is underlined because it is very important during the rulemaking process. Although Proposition 203 allows for that public to petition the Department of Health Services to exercise its discretion to provide conditions under this section, bureaucracy is notoriously difficult to get to change any law. The initial discretionary rules for further treatments could possibly be exercised in the public consultations that occur between December and March, though this isn't certain.

It is therefore important that, within the event that digging in medical conditions is known as during the consultations, any stakeholder wishing for any problem unlisted in the first two bulleted items above to lobby throughout the public consultation periods to the Department to incorporate the extra medical condition to the set of debilitating medical ailments. In order to raise the prestige from a presentations built to justify adding health conditions under Section 36-2801.01, it might be helpful to solicit the testimony of sympathetic Arizona-licensed medical doctors who is able to testify in some recoverable format and at the public hearings about why the proposed condition should be added. Documents showing that other jurisdictions, both inside the United States and elsewhere, currently use marijuana as a treatment for that proposed condition might be helpful, as would medical journals around the subject.

It ought to be remembered that despite his cheery YouTube videos concerning the medical marijuana rule drafting process, Director of Health Services Will Humble wrote a submission in opposition for the passing of Proposition 203. He did so about the grounds the FDA doesn't test the drug, and even though the federal government's anti-marijuana policy is well-known it should stop used being an authority for unbiased medical cannabis research. There is no reason to imagine that Director Humble is going to be any less inclined to obstruct the use of medical marijuana in the rulemaking stage, and all sorts of proponents of medical cannabis ought to be guaranteed to make their voices heard in the consultations to prevent the obstruction with the intent of Proposition 203.

Extent of Rulemaking during Consultations

There is also provisions in Proposition 203 which will probably be discussed through the initial rulemaking process, and they're going to apt to be the main objective with the consultations. The consultations will create rules:

* Governing the way in which the location where the Department of Health Services encourage the petitions from the general public previously mentioned, regarding adding medical conditions to the list of the already enshrined debilitating health conditions.

* Establishing the form and content of registration and renewal applications submitted under the medical marijuana law.

* Governing the way in which in which the Department will consider applications for and renewals of medical cannabis ID cards.

* Governing various aspects round the newly legalized nonprofit medical marijuana dispensaries, including recordkeeping, security, oversight, and also other requirements.

* Establishing the fees for patient applications and medical cannabis dispensary applications.

The most crucial part with the consultation period will likely be regarding the rules governing the establishment and oversight of medical cannabis dispensaries. If interest groups lobby the Department to produce the recordkeeping, security, oversight, and other requirements around dispensaries too restrictive, it is going to have the result of lowering the option of medical marijuana to patients and driving in the tariff of medical marijuana due for the not enough supply. It could simply become too costly to adhere to all from the regulations.

During this stage, it is very important that stakeholders-particularly medicinal marijuana dispensaries from out-of-state, and maybe pharmacists having a amount of economic knowledge-submit briefs explaining why certain proposed rules could have a negative effect for the patients this Proposition should really help. The proposed rules have never appear yet, but when they do, they must be closely scrutinized for that possible negative impact that unnecessarily tough security and recordkeeping on nonprofit dispensaries probably have on patients.

The other major factor within the rulemaking must do using the fees. The Department is going to be setting fees for medical cannabis dispensaries in the consultation period. Proposition 203 provides the fees may well not exceed $5,000 per initial application, and $1,000 per renewal. However, with many lobbying throughout the public consultation, it is possible that this actual fees will be much less since these are merely the maximum how the Department may charge.

Discrimination against Medical Marijuana Users

Under Proposition 203, discrimination against medicinal marijuana users is going to be prohibited in specific situations. Based on our analysis, a person may well not:

* As a school or landlord, refuse to enroll someone or otherwise not penalize them solely for status being a medical cannabis cardholder, unless not doing this would result within the loss in a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations.

* As an employer, discriminate against hiring someone, or terminate them or impose any conditions in it as they are a medical cannabis cardholder, unless not the process would result inside loss of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations. Employers might still terminate employees in the event the employee is within possession of or impaired by marijuana for the premises with the office or in the hours of employment.

* As a health care provider, discriminate against a cardholder, including in matters of organ transplants. Medical marijuana have to be treated every other medication prescribed by the physician.

* Be prevented, being a cardholder, from having visitation custody or visitation or parenting time which has a minor, unless the cardholder's behavior ""creates an unreasonable danger towards the safety with the minor as established by clear and convincing evidence.""

Although there are certain prohibitions on discrimination, there's also provisions which permit discrimination against medical marijuana cardholders:

* Government medical assistance programs and personal health insurers are not necessary to reimburse an individual for their medicinal marijuana use.

* Nobody who possesses property, including businesses, is needed to allow medical marijuana on their premises (this seemingly includes landlords who, although they cannot refuse tenants based on their being a cardholder, are permitted to avoid cardholders from bringing marijuana onto the landlord's property).

* Employers are certainly not required to allow cardholders to get beneath the influence of or ingest marijuana while working, although presence of marijuana within the body which is not of an sufficient concentration to cause impairment doesn't establish being under the influence of it.

Rules Related on the Establishment of Dispensaries

Although the ultimate rules around security, recordkeeping, and other requirements for medical cannabis dispensaries are not established until April 2011, there are particular requirements that happen to be enshrined in Proposition 203 itself and will be known ahead of the time that the final rules emerge. These minimal requirements may not be as restrictive as the last requirements which can be published in April 2011.

* Medical marijuana dispensaries must be nonprofit. They must have bylaws which preserve their nonprofit nature, though they need 't be considered tax-exempt from the IRS, nor must they be incorporated.

* The operating documents of the dispensaries must include provisions for your oversight from the dispensary and then for accurate recordkeeping.

* The dispensary should have an individual secure entrance and must implement appropriate security measures to deter and prevent the theft of marijuana and unauthorized use of areas containing marijuana.

* A dispensary should never acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana for just about any purpose aside from providing it right to a cardholder in order to a registered caregiver to the cardholder.

* All cultivation of marijuana will need to take place only in a locked, enclosed facility at a home address provided on the Department of Health Services during the application process, and accessible only by dispensary agents registered with all the Department.

* A dispensary can buy marijuana from your patient of their caregiver, but only when the patient or caregiver receives no compensation because of it.

* No usage of marijuana is permitted around the property from the dispensary.

* A dispensary is susceptible to reasonable inspection from the Department of Health Services. The Department must first give reasonable notice of the inspection on the dispensary.

Comparison to California's Medical Marijuana Law

The Arizona law is by no means the same as the law in California. There are certainly some differences between your two, though in certain respects these are comparable. This is a comparative analysis in the two laws.

Similarities:

* Both laws, as a practical matter, accommodate broad discretion on the part of a physician to prescribe marijuana to patients who are suffering from pain. In the Arizona law, ""severe and chronic pain"" may be the legislated standard. In the California law, any ""chronic or persistent medical symptom"" that substantially limits living of the patient to conduct a number of major life activities as defined through the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, or when not alleviated, will cause serious harm towards the patient's physical or mental safety, qualifies.

* Both laws have a number of illnesses which are automatically considered qualifying illnesses for the prescription of medicinal marijuana. These include, but are not restricted to, AIDS, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, persistent muscle spasms, seizures, and severe nausea.

* Both laws require use associated with an identification card by those who have been prescribed medicinal marijuana, after the cardholders have gone through a basic application process when the use in the drug has been recommended by way of a physician.

* Both states tend not to factor inside unusable portion from the marijuana plant in determining the absolute maximum weight of marijuana that is certainly permissible for possession with a cardholder.

Differences:

* Though the rules haven't been finalized, the Arizona law appears as though it will be regulated on the state level and thus uniform across Arizona. The California law, however, is regulated significantly about the municipal level, and for that reason the rules around dispensaries can differ greatly from one municipality on the next.

* The Arizona law provides a broader spectrum of people who are viewed a ""physician"" for your purpose of prescribing medical marijuana. In California, only medical professionals and osteopaths are thought to get physicians. In Arizona, along with medical doctors and osteopaths, naturopaths and homeopaths will also be permitted to prescribe medical marijuana.

* In California, patients or their caregivers may grow marijuana plants in lieu of utilizing a medicinal marijuana dispensary. In Arizona, patients might grow marijuana or designate another individual to take action instead of going to a dispensary for the condition that there are no dispensary operating within 25 miles with the patient's home.

* The maximum possession limit for marijuana in California is eight ounces per patient, whereas the limit is 2.5 ounces per patient in Arizona.

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The Results Of Medicines And Medicine On Sex As Well As Libido

"I wouldn't be an excellent attorney unless I prefaced this informative article by disclaimers:

1) Marijuana remains a controlled schedule I substance which is illegal within the eyes of the Federal Government with the United States;

2) This article is never to be construed as legal advice, nor is to take the place with the advice of your attorney, and you need to talk to a lawyer before taking any actions in furtherance of the subject matter of this article. Ok, let's begin.

In the month of November, the State of Arizona passed Proposition 203, which would exempt certain people from controlled substances laws inside State of Arizona. However, it's going to still take the time before medical cannabis is implemented as policy in Arizona. The Arizona Department of Health Services has released a proposed timeline for the drafting of the rules all around the implementation of Proposition 203. So far, fundamental essentials important time periods that should be paid close awareness of:

December 17, 2010: The first draft from the medical cannabis rules needs to be released and made readily available for reply to this date.

January 7, 2011: This is going to be the deadline for public reply to the very first draft of rules mentioned above.

January 31, 2011: The second draft from the rules will likely be released for this date. Once again, it is going to be readily available for informal comment as within the draft known above.

February 21 to March 18, 2011: More formal public hearings will be held regarding the proposed rules currently, and the ultimate rules will likely be published to the Secretary of State making it public on the Office of Administrative Rules website.

April 2011: The medical cannabis rules go into effect and be published within the Arizona Administrative Register.

It is important that constantly during the entire consultation process, interested parties submit briefs and/or make oral presentations when permitted. Groups with interests contrary to those of medical marijuana advocates may also be making presentations, and might convince the State to unnecessarily restrict the substance or those who may qualify to get into it when there is no voice to advocate and only patients' rights.

Some outline about Proposition 203's effects

-Physicians may prescribe medicinal marijuana because of their patients under certain conditions. ""Physician"" is just not defined in a way tied to normal health professionals. Osteopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 17; naturopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 14; and homeopaths licensed under Title 32, Chapter 29 may all be permitted to recommend marijuana for his or her patients.

-In order to be prescribed medical cannabis, a person must be a ""qualifying patient."" A qualifying patient is described as anyone who has been diagnosed with a ""physician"" (as defined above) as using a ""debilitating medical problem.""

-Debilitating health conditions include:

* Cancer, glaucoma, HIV positive status, AIDS, hepatitis C, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Crohn's disease, or agitation of Alzheimer's disease or perhaps the treatment of these conditions.

* A chronic or debilitating disease or problem or its treatment who makes several with the following: Cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe and chronic pain; severe nausea; seizures, including those sign of epilepsy; or severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those characteristic of multiple sclerosis.

* Any other medical condition or its treatment added through the Department of Health Services pursuant to Section 36-2801.01.

This last qualifying condition is underlined because it is important in the rulemaking process. Although Proposition 203 allows for that public to petition the Department of Health Services to exercise its discretion to incorporate conditions under this section, bureaucracy is notoriously nearly impossible to find to change any law. The initial discretionary rules for additional treatments could possibly be exercised during the public consultations that occur between December and March, though this isn't certain.

It is therefore important that, inside event that adding medical conditions is considered during the consultations, any stakeholder who wishes to get a problem unlisted cbd products newtown inside first couple of bulleted items above to lobby in the public consultation periods for your Department to provide the extra problem to the listing of debilitating medical ailments. In order to improve the prestige from a presentations designed to justify adding health conditions under Section 36-2801.01, it can be beneficial to solicit the testimony of sympathetic Arizona-licensed physicians who is able to testify on paper and at the public hearings about why the proposed condition needs to be added. Documents showing that other jurisdictions, both within the United States and elsewhere, currently use marijuana as a treatment for the proposed condition may be helpful, as would medical journals about the subject.

It must be remembered that despite his cheery YouTube videos in regards to the medicinal marijuana rule drafting process, Director of Health Services Will Humble wrote a submission in opposition on the passing of Proposition 203. He accomplished it around the grounds the FDA does not test the drug, although the federal government's anti-marijuana policy is well-known it should not relied on as an authority for unbiased medical cannabis research. There is no reason to think that Director Humble will be any less inclined to obstruct the use of medicinal marijuana through the rulemaking stage, and all proponents of medicinal marijuana must be certain to make their voices heard in the consultations in order to avoid the obstruction with the intent of Proposition 203.

Extent of Rulemaking during Consultations

There are other provisions in Proposition 203 which will probably be discussed throughout the initial rulemaking process, and they will oftimes be the target with the consultations. The consultations can provide rules:

* Governing the way in which in which the Department of Health Services need the petitions from the population mentioned before, regarding the addition of medical ailments on the list from the already enshrined debilitating health conditions.

* Establishing the form and content of registration and renewal applications submitted under the medicinal marijuana law.

* Governing the manner the location where the Department will consider applications for and renewals of medical marijuana ID cards.

* Governing the many aspects across the newly legalized nonprofit medicinal marijuana dispensaries, including recordkeeping, security, oversight, and also other requirements.

* Establishing the fees for patient applications and medicinal marijuana dispensary applications.

The vital part from the consultation period is going to be about the rules governing the establishment and oversight of medical marijuana dispensaries. If interest groups lobby the Department to create the recordkeeping, security, oversight, and also other requirements around dispensaries too restrictive, it is going to have the effects of lowering the availability of medicinal marijuana to patients and driving in the price of medical marijuana due for the lack of supply. It could simply become expensive to adhere to all with the regulations.

During this stage, it is very important that stakeholders-particularly medicinal marijuana dispensaries from out-of-state, as well as perhaps pharmacists with a little economic knowledge-submit briefs explaining why certain proposed rules may have a negative effect for the patients this Proposition really should help. The proposed rules haven't turn out yet, but when they certainly, they needs to be closely scrutinized for the possible negative impact that unnecessarily tough security and recordkeeping on nonprofit dispensaries might have on patients.

The other major factor inside the rulemaking will have to do using the fees. The Department is going to be setting fees for medical cannabis dispensaries through the consultation period. Proposition 203 provides that this fees might not exceed $5,000 per initial application, and $1,000 per renewal. However, with many lobbying during the public consultation, it will be possible that the actual fees will be a lot less because these are merely the absolute maximum that the Department may charge.

Discrimination against Medical Marijuana Users

Under Proposition 203, discrimination against medical marijuana users will likely be prohibited in certain circumstances. Based on our analysis, an individual might not:

* As a school or landlord, don't enroll someone or otherwise penalize them solely for his or her status as a medical cannabis cardholder, unless not doing this would result within the loss of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations.

* As an employer, discriminate against hiring someone, or terminate them or impose any conditions with them since they're a medical cannabis cardholder, unless not this would result within the decrease of a monetary or licensing related benefit under federal law or regulations. Employers can still terminate employees when the employee is possessing or impaired by marijuana for the premises of the office or during the hours of employment.

* As a medical care provider, discriminate against a cardholder, including in matters of organ transplants. Medical marijuana has to be treated as any other medication prescribed by way of a physician.

* Be prevented, like a cardholder, from having visitation custody or visitation or parenting time having a minor, unless the cardholder's behavior ""creates an unreasonable danger for the safety from the minor as established by clear and convincing evidence.""

Although there are specific prohibitions on discrimination, in addition there are provisions which permit discrimination against medical cannabis cardholders:

* Government medical attention programs and private health insurers usually are not needed to reimburse a person for their medicinal marijuana use.

* Nobody who possesses property, including business owners, is forced to allow medical cannabis on the premises (this seemingly includes landlords who, although they cannot refuse tenants based on their as being a cardholder, are permitted to prevent cardholders from bringing marijuana on the landlord's property).

* Employers aren't required to allow cardholders to be under the influence of or ingest marijuana while working, although the presence of marijuana inside body which is just not of your sufficient concentration to cause impairment does not establish being under the influence of it.

Rules Related to the Establishment of Dispensaries

Although a final rules around security, recordkeeping, along with other requirements for medicinal marijuana dispensaries will not be established until April 2011, a number of requirements that are enshrined in Proposition 203 itself and will be known ahead from the time that the ultimate rules appear. These minimal requirements might not be as restrictive as the last requirements that happen to be published in April 2011.

* Medical marijuana dispensaries have to be nonprofit. They have to have bylaws which preserve their nonprofit nature, though they need 't be considered tax-exempt through the IRS, nor must they be incorporated.

* The operating documents in the dispensaries must include provisions for that oversight in the dispensary and for accurate recordkeeping.

* The dispensary have to have a single secure entrance and must implement appropriate security measures to deter and stop the theft of marijuana and unauthorized usage of areas containing marijuana.

* A dispensary should not acquire, possess, cultivate, manufacture, deliver, transfer, transport, supply, or dispense marijuana for just about any purpose besides providing it straight to a cardholder as well as to a registered caregiver for your cardholder.

* All cultivation of marijuana must take place only at the locked, enclosed facility in a home address provided for the Department of Health Services through the application process, and accessible only by dispensary agents registered using the Department.

* A dispensary can buy marijuana from your patient with their caregiver, but only if your patient or caregiver receives no compensation correctly.

* No consumption of marijuana is permitted around the property from the dispensary.

* A dispensary is susceptible to reasonable inspection through the Department of Health Services. The Department must first give reasonable notice in the inspection for the dispensary.

Comparison to California's Medical Marijuana Law

The Arizona law is as simple as no means the same as the law in California. There are certainly some differences involving the two, though in certain respects they may be comparable. This is a comparative analysis from the two laws.

Similarities:

* Both laws, like a practical matter, accommodate broad discretion on the part of your physician to prescribe marijuana to patients who suffer from pain. In the Arizona law, ""severe and chronic pain"" could be the legislated standard. In the California law, any ""chronic or persistent medical symptom"" that substantially limits lifespan of the patient to conduct several major life activities as defined from the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, or if not alleviated, may cause serious harm towards the patient's physical or mental safety, qualifies.

* Both laws have many illnesses which can be automatically considered qualifying illnesses to the prescription of medical marijuana. These include, but are certainly not tied to, AIDS, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, persistent muscle spasms, seizures, and severe nausea.

* Both laws require the use of an identification card by people that have been prescribed medical cannabis, following the cardholders have undergone an initial application process when the use in the drug may be recommended with a physician.

* Both states usually do not factor inside the unusable portion with the marijuana plant in determining the maximum weight of marijuana that is permissible for possession by the cardholder.

Differences:

* Though the rules have not been finalized, the Arizona law appears as though it will be regulated around the state level and therefore uniform across Arizona. The California law, however, is regulated significantly for the municipal level, and so the rules around dispensaries can differ greatly derived from one of municipality towards the next.

* The Arizona law gives a broader spectrum of people who are considered a ""physician"" to the purpose of prescribing medicinal marijuana. In California, only health professionals and osteopaths are believed to become physicians. In Arizona, along with physicians and osteopaths, naturopaths and homeopaths may also be permitted prescribe medical cannabis.

* In California, patients or their caregivers may grow marijuana plants in place of using a medical marijuana dispensary. In Arizona, patients may only grow marijuana or designate somebody else to do this in place of visiting a dispensary about the condition that there is no dispensary operating within 25 miles from the patient's home.

* The maximum possession limit for marijuana in California is eight ounces per patient, whereas the limit is merely 2.5 ounces per patient in Arizona.

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I Am The Good Shepherd

Know Your Own Context

October is my birthday month, so I am publishing some articles that feel a bit more personal to me. This week I wrote to encourage you to Know Your Own Context. It means to look outside of yourself and see how God has sovereignly arranged your life to make you the person that you are.

Be assured that I do not believe we are simply products of our environment and that people cannot change. But Christians should be aware of the graces that God has given as well as the trials and obstacles he has helped us overcome in this life. It's a perspective that I do not want to lose, and it is good to remember as we hope for the life to come.

SOLA

This week SOLA published my article on 6 Special Challenges for Asian American Worship Teams. This might be what I have been most proud to publish. It is a culmination of my experience as a music leader at FCBC Walnut throughout my life. I hope it reads to show that I am thankful and grateful for the opportunities given to me by my parents, teachers, friends, and church. I pray it encourages current and future leaders to think through issues of Asian American identity, not to divide but to unite us in singing the praise of the grace of God through Christ. Special thanks to those who read and shared! It means a lot to me to have your support.

Interestingly, I originally wrote it as a two-part feature on my blog exactly one year ago. I had no idea or ambition to join SOLA. But once I joined SOLA this year as the assistant digital marketer, editor Hannah Chao started looking through my website. She pitched it to me as a post for this month's SOLA focus on worship, creativity, and art. We went back and forth on the edits for about two weeks to produce the article. But the core of the work was already done a year ago before I even had this audience. As Christian artists, sometimes we have to follow the call to create knowing that God can use things later down the line.

SOLA provides me the opportunity to share a special version of my Thank God It’s Friday link roundups. This week I featured my friend Charlene Hao’s blog post on 5 Prayers for My Best Friend. You can find her post and more on my column for this week. If you ever have something to share, you can reach me directly by responding to this email.

Book Reviews

I am reviewing one book from Tim Challies' Cruciform Press every week in October. This week I reviewed The Joy Project by Tony Reinke. This book was released in conjunction with DesiringGod and I am happy to partner with them in this way. It's always exciting when I get to read and review for some of my favorite ministries.

The books seemed to be front-loaded this fall so I've been reading and writing this entire month. There are several that have needed more time from me. The first is a series of five books by John Stott on God's Word for Today. The second is a set of commentaries on Genesis. The third is a collection of reader's versions of The Gospels. These are all quality resources so I want to make sure I read and review them well!

Coming Soon

I will be leading music this Sunday at FCBC Walnut. I caught a cold so I would appreciate your prayers! We'll be singing Anchored, Trust In Him At All Times, Still My Soul Be Still, Psalm 23 (Surely Goodness, Surely Mercy), and Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me. Violinist Aaron Ma recently shared on his website about how he composed the arrangement for Anchored. It’s a very niche read but gives you a beautiful look behind-the-scenes. 

Phillip Zachariah and Jenn Low's 3-song music project drops for free on October 31 and will be titled "My King Has Crushed The Curse Of Death." I am putting the finishing touches on the master tracks and finalizing my plan to release it. Next week I will share it on my blog, but here is the early and unlisted teaser trailer for my newsletter readers.

My feature article next will be How God Used My Time When I Was Growing Up. My book review next week will be JOY! A Bible Study on Philippians for Women. I think I have another article to be published for SOLA early next week: 10 Pieces of Advice for Christian Artists.

Weekly Review

SOLA: Why Minority Churches Matter in the Multiethnic Church Discussion, At Hong Kong Protests - Art That Imitates Life, 5 Prayers for My Best Friend, 5 Myths about Teaching Theology to Youth, and Discipling Asian American Millennials.

Thank God It's Friday: Taylor Swift Performs for NPR Tiny Desk, Won Kwak on New Christians & Their Churches, Everything Coming to Disney+ at Launch Teased in 197-Minute Video, and The Showdown Between the NBA and China: Why Are American Corporations Abandoning Conscience When It Comes to China?

SOLA: 6 Special Challenges for Asian American Worship Teams

Book Review: The Joy Project

Feature Article: Know Your Own Context

Recommended Reading: Why (More Than Ever Before) You Need to Read Deeply, Seeing By Light: Redeeming Beauty to God’s Standards, At Hong Kong Protests - Art That Imitates Life, and How Coachella ’99 Lost a Million Dollars and Started an Empire.

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LONDON & PHILADELPHIA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) today published an announcement that Comcast has prevailed with the highest offer price in the auction to acquire the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Sky plc (“Sky”) with an offer price of £17.28 per Sky share (the “UK Auction Results Announcement”). This implies a value of $40.0 billion (£30.6 billion) for the fully diluted share capital of Sky. Today’s announcement ends the competitive bidding process for Sky.

Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian L. Roberts said: “This is a great day for Comcast. Sky is a wonderful company with a great platform, tremendous brand, and accomplished management team. This acquisition will allow us to quickly, efficiently and meaningfully increase our customer base and expand internationally. We couldn’t be more excited by the opportunities in front of us. We now encourage Sky shareholders to accept our offer, which we look forward to completing before the end of October 2018.”

Sky shareholders who are institutional investors outside the United States interested in selling their Sky shares to Comcast should contact BofA Merrill Lynch Corporate Broking at +44 20 7995 2794 or dg.corporate_broking_trading@baml.com.

This press release should be read in conjunction with the UK Auction Results Announcement, which is available on Comcast’s website at www.cmcsa.com/proposal-for-sky. The acquisition is being implemented by Comcast Bidco Limited, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Comcast.

About Comcast Corporation

Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a global media and technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation’s largest video, high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers under the XFINITY brand, and also provides these services to businesses. It also provides wireless and security and automation services to residential customers under the XFINITY brand. NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports cable networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television production operations, television station groups, Universal Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts. Visit www.comcastcorporation.com for more information.

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Further information

This announcement is for information purposes only and is not intended to, and does not, constitute or form part of any offer or invitation, or the solicitation of an offer to purchase, otherwise acquire, subscribe for, sell or otherwise dispose of, any securities or the solicitation of any vote or approval in any jurisdiction pursuant to the proposed acquisition by Comcast Bidco Limited, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast (“Comcast Bidco”), of the entire issued and to be issued share capital of Sky (the “Acquisition”) or otherwise, nor shall there be any sale, issuance or transfer of securities of Sky in any jurisdiction in contravention of applicable law. The Acquisition (if implemented pursuant to a takeover offer within the meaning of Part 28 of the Companies Act 2006) will be implemented solely pursuant to the terms of the offer document and the accompanying form of acceptance (or any revision of such documents), which contain the full terms and conditions of the Acquisition, including details of how to accept the offer. Any decision in respect of, or other response to, the Acquisition should be made only on the basis of the information contained in the offer document and the form of acceptance (or any revision of such documents). Sky shareholders are advised to read the formal documentation in relation to the Acquisition carefully. Each Sky shareholder is urged to consult his or her independent professional adviser regarding the tax consequences of the Acquisition.

This announcement does not constitute a prospectus or prospectus equivalent document.

Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains certain “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This announcement (including information incorporated by reference in this announcement), oral statements made regarding the Acquisition, and other information published by Comcast and/or Comcast Bidco contain statements which are, or may be deemed to be, “forward-looking statements”. Forward-looking statements are prospective in nature and are not based on historical facts, but rather on current expectations and projections of the management of Comcast about future events, and are therefore subject to risks and uncertainties which could cause actual results to differ materially from the future results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this announcement include statements relating to the expected effects or synergies of the Acquisition on Comcast, Comcast Bidco and Sky, the expected timing and scope of the Acquisition and other statements other than historical facts. Often, but not always, forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “is subject to”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases or statements that certain actions, events or results “may”, “could”, “should”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken, occur or be achieved. Although Comcast and Comcast Bidco believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, Comcast and Comcast Bidco can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to be correct. By their nature, forward- looking statements involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future. There are a number of factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward- looking statements. In addition to the information regarding these risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors set forth in the public filings made by Sky and the public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission made by Comcast, important risk factors that may cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, (i) the completion of the Acquisition on anticipated terms and timing, (ii) the ability of Sky and Comcast to integrate the businesses successfully and to achieve anticipated synergies or benefits, (iii) the risk that disruptions from the Acquisition will harm Sky’s or Comcast’s businesses, (iv) legislative, regulatory and economic developments and (v) unpredictability and severity of catastrophic events, including, but not limited to, acts of terrorism or outbreak of war or hostilities. While the list of factors presented here is considered representative, no such list should be considered to be a complete statement of all potential risks and uncertainties. Unlisted factors may present significant additional obstacles to the realization of forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements should therefore be construed in the light of such factors.

None of Comcast, Comcast Bidco, or any of their associates or directors, officers or advisors, provides any representation, assurance or guarantee that the occurrence of the events expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements in this announcement will actually occur. You are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Other than in accordance with its legal or regulatory obligations, neither Comcast nor Comcast Bidco is under any obligation, and Comcast and Comcast Bidco expressly disclaim any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

No profit forecast or estimates

No statement in this announcement is intended as a profit forecast or profit estimate for any period. No statement in this announcement should be interpreted to mean that cash flow from operations, free cash flow, earnings or earnings per share for Comcast, Comcast Bidco or Sky, as appropriate, for the current or future financial years would necessarily match or exceed the historical published cash flow from operations, free cash flow, earnings or earnings per share for Comcast, Comcast Bidco or Sky, as appropriate.

Overseas jurisdictions

The release, publication or distribution of this announcement in jurisdictions other than the United Kingdom may be restricted by law and therefore any persons who are subject to the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United Kingdom should inform themselves about, and observe, any applicable requirements. In particular, the ability of persons who are not resident in the United Kingdom to accept the offer, or to execute and deliver the form of acceptance, may be affected by the laws of the relevant jurisdictions in which they are located. Sky shareholders who are in any doubt regarding such matters should consult an appropriate independent advisor in the relevant jurisdiction without delay. Any failure to comply with such restrictions may constitute a violation of the securities laws of any such jurisdiction.

This announcement has been prepared for the purpose of complying with English law and the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the “City Code”) and the information disclosed may not be the same as that which would have been disclosed if this announcement had been prepared in accordance with the laws of jurisdictions outside of England.

Unless otherwise determined by Comcast Bidco or required by the City Code, and permitted by applicable law and regulation, the offer will not be made available, directly or indirectly, in, into or from a restricted jurisdiction where to do so would violate the laws of that jurisdiction and no person may accept the offer by any use, means, instrumentality (including, but not limited to, facsimile, e-mail or other electronic transmission, telex or telephone) of interstate or foreign commerce of, or of any facility of a national, state or other securities exchange of any restricted jurisdiction or any other jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a violation of the laws of that jurisdiction and the offer may not be capable of acceptance by any such use, means, instrumentality or facilities. Accordingly, copies of this announcement and any formal documentation relating to the Acquisition are not being, and must not be, directly or indirectly, mailed or otherwise forwarded, distributed or sent in or into or from any restricted jurisdiction or any other jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a violation of the laws of that jurisdiction and persons receiving such documents (including custodians, nominees and trustees) must not mail or otherwise forward, distribute or send them in or into or from any restricted jurisdiction or any other jurisdiction where to do so would constitute a violation of the laws of that jurisdiction.

Further details in relation to Sky shareholders in overseas jurisdictions are contained in the offer document.

Important information for U.S. shareholders and Sky ADR holders

Sky is a public limited company incorporated in England. The offer is being made to Sky shareholders in the United States in compliance with the applicable U.S. tender offer rules under the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “U.S. Exchange Act”), including Regulation 14E thereunder taking into account no action relief and exemptive relief granted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), and otherwise in accordance with the requirements of English law. Accordingly, the offer is subject to disclosure and other procedural requirements, including with respect to withdrawal rights, the offer timetable, settlement procedures and timing of payments that are different from those applicable under U.S. domestic tender offer law and practice. Sky’s financial information, including any included in the offer documentation, will not have been prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, or derived therefrom, and may therefore differ from, and not be comparable with, financial information of U.S. companies.

Comcast and/or Comcast Bidco and their affiliates or brokers (acting as agents for Comcast and/or Comcast Bidco and their affiliates, as applicable) may from time to time, and other than pursuant to the offer, directly or indirectly, purchase, or arrange to purchase outside the United States, shares in Sky or any securities that are convertible into, exchangeable for or exercisable for such shares before or during the period in which the offer remains open for acceptance, to the extent permitted by, and in compliance with, exemptive relief granted by the SEC from Rule 14e-5 under the U.S. Exchange Act and in compliance with the City Code. As noted above, Comcast or its affiliates and brokers intend to purchase Sky shares outside the offer from shareholders outside the United States. These purchases may occur either in the open market at prevailing prices or in private transactions at negotiated prices. Information about any such purchases or arrangements to purchase that is made public in accordance with English law and practice will be available to all investors (including in the United States) via the Regulatory News Service on www.londonstockexchange.com.

In relation to Comcast’s intention to buy Sky shares in the market outside the offer, Comcast and its affiliates and brokers cannot purchase Sky shares from Sky shareholders incorporated or located in the United States or where the Sky shares would be sold from the United States. Any purchases will be made to the extent permitted by, and in compliance with, the exemptive relief granted by the SEC from Rule 14e-5 under the U.S. Exchange Act and in compliance with the City Code.

The offer, if consummated, may have consequences under U.S. federal income tax and applicable U.S. state and local, as well as non-U.S., tax laws for Sky shareholders and Sky ADR holders. Each Sky shareholder and Sky ADR holder is urged to consult his or her independent professional advisor regarding the tax consequences of the offer.

It may not be possible for Sky shareholders or Sky ADR holders in the United States to effect service of process within the United States upon Sky or Comcast Bidco (each a company incorporated in England), or their respective officers or directors, some or all of which may reside outside the United States, or to enforce against any of them judgments of the United States courts predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or other U.S. law. It may not be possible to bring an action against Sky or Comcast Bidco, or their respective officers or directors, in a non-U.S. court for violations of U.S. law, including the U.S. securities laws. There is also substantial doubt as to enforceability in the United Kingdom in original actions, or in actions for the enforcement of judgments of U.S. courts, based on civil liability provisions of U.S. federal securities laws.

Disclosure requirements of the City Code

Under Rule 8.3(a) of the City Code, any person who is interested in one percent or more of any class of relevant securities of an offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror (being any offeror other than an offeror in respect of which it has been announced that its offer is, or is likely to be, solely in cash) must make an Opening Position Disclosure following the commencement of the offer period and, if later, following the announcement in which any securities exchange offeror is first identified.

An Opening Position Disclosure must contain details of the person’s interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any securities exchange offeror(s). An Opening Position Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(a) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 p.m. (London time) on the 10th business day following the commencement of the offer period and, if appropriate, by no later than 3.30 p.m. (London time) on the 10th business day following the announcement in which any securities exchange offeror is first identified. Relevant persons who deal in the relevant securities of the offeree company or of a securities exchange offeror prior to midnight on the day before the deadline for making an Opening Position Disclosure must instead make a Dealing Disclosure.

Under Rule 8.3(b) of the City Code, any person who is, or becomes, interested in one percent or more of any class of relevant securities of the offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror must make a Dealing Disclosure if the person deals in any relevant securities of the offeree company or of any securities exchange offeror. A Dealing Disclosure must contain details of the dealing concerned and of the person’s interests and short positions in, and rights to subscribe for, any relevant securities of each of (i) the offeree company and (ii) any securities exchange offeror, save to the extent that these details have previously been disclosed under Rule 8. A Dealing Disclosure by a person to whom Rule 8.3(b) applies must be made by no later than 3.30 p.m. (London time) on the business day following the date of the relevant dealing.

If two or more persons act together pursuant to an agreement or understanding, whether formal or informal, to acquire or control an interest in relevant securities of an offeree company or a securities exchange offeror, they will be deemed to be a single person for the purpose of Rule 8.3.

Opening Position Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company and by any offeror and Dealing Disclosures must also be made by the offeree company, by any offeror and by any persons acting in concert with any of them (see Rules 8.1, 8.2 and 8.4).

Details of the offeree and offeror companies in respect of whose relevant securities Opening Position Disclosures and Dealing Disclosures must be made can be found in the Disclosure Table on the Takeover Panel’s website at www.thetakeoverpanel.org.uk, including details of the number of relevant securities in issue, when the offer period commenced and when any offeror was first identified. If you are in any doubt as to whether you are required to make an Opening Position Disclosure or a Dealing Disclosure, you should contact the Takeover Panel’s Market Surveillance Unit on +44 (0) 20 7638 0129.

For the purposes of this section of this announcement, “business day” means a day on which the London Stock Exchange is open for the transaction of business.

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Can a YouTube Video Invalidate a Patent? It’s Certainly Possible

One of the most common defenses to patent infringement is that the asserted patent is invalid. The reasons for invalidity regularly range from lack of utility, to incorrect inventorship, and even to fraud (as I’ve recently written about). Often, the defendant asserts that the patent is invalid for lack of novelty or non-obviousness–pointing to some piece of evidence that the defendant says conclusively shows that the invention was already in the public domain before the plaintiff even applied for the patent. That evidence is called invalidating “prior art.”

Prior art can spell the unexpected demise of an otherwise valid patent, and it comes in many forms. For several decades, published prior art (not to be confused with prior art in the form of prior uses or sales) consisted of already-existing patents (and applications), trade journals, drawings, articles, websites, standards, whitepapers, etc. But Congress expanded the scope of published prior art dramatically in passing the America Invents Act in 2012. Whereas before prior art consisted merely of “printed publications,” post-AIA, prior art also encompassed things that are “otherwise available to the public.”

The larger–and more modern–universe of possible published prior art is easy to imagine. For example, prior art references are no longer limited to traditional publications and documentary evidence. Instead, additional forms of multimedia come into play–which is fitting in today’s multimedia-packed times. Videos, movies, broadcasts, and recordings all now qualify as prior art, so long as they are available to the public.

But despite this expansion, litigants have not yet fully taken advantage of the change. There have been a few recent uses of video as prior art, such as the iconic iPhone keynote speech made by the late Steve Jobs demonstrating a technology described in an Apple patent. Ironically, in commenting on the “bounce-back” effect that was the subject of the patent, Steve Jobs stated, “boy have we patented it.” But Apple failed to patent it fast enough after the speech.

Samsung used clips from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to argue that Apple’s design patent for the shape of a tablet was invalidating prior art.

Apple really seems to be taking the brunt of the AIA’s change.

Just one week ago, a federal district judge in the Northern District of Florida addressed–apparently for the first time–whether a YouTube video could constitute prior art. The court, in HVLPO2, LLC v. Oxygen Frog, LLC, 4:16-CV-336 (MW/CAS) (Dkt. No. 133), held that a YouTube video can constitute prior art and that YouTube videos are “sufficiently accessible to the public interested in the art.” Not exactly a groundbreaking finding to someone of my generation, who grew up with YouTube and the internet. Indeed, the USPTO’s own training guides (slide 15) specifically state that YouTube videos are a perfectly acceptable form of prior art. The USPTO has stated that videos qualified prior to the AIA, but there is conflicting authority.

The defendant in HVLPO2 had argued that the particular YouTube video in question was uploaded on a random account, so no one interested in the art would have found it. The court (in an order most likely written by the clerk in this section) pushed back in eccentric fashion, stating:

It appears that Plaintiff is unfamiliar with how YouTube works. A familiar user would know that you don’t need to search for a particular channel to watch the videos uploaded on it. For example, if you want to watch a video of a cat skateboarding, you can search “cat skateboarding”; you don’t need to know that it might have been “CatLady83” who uploaded the video you end up watching.

The court held that the YouTube video in question appeared within the first 20 videos when using appropriate search terms on the site. “Surely, the effort involved in composing a basic search query and scrolling down the page a few times does not exceed the ‘reasonable diligence’ that the law expects of a hypothetical prior art subject.” I couldn’t agree more, and I recommend this fun cat skateboarding video:

But even though most YouTube videos are generally accessible, not all are available to the public. For example, YouTube videos may be “private” or “unlisted,” potentially removing them from the “otherwise available to the public” category or at least undermining the argument for their accessibility. Thus, as even the court in HVLPO2 noted, the defendant still has to prove the existence of public access to the video prior to the applicable date. This can be accomplished by proffering screenshots of the video in the browser and evidence of that video’s publication date (which is disclosed on the YouTube website and many other video sharing platforms).

Besides the above, there are few other examples of videos (online or otherwise) being used as prior art. This is probably due in part to the current difficulty of searching the vast amount of video and audio–as opposed to text, for example–available on the internet. But as computer learning gets better and better, I expect audiovisual prior art will play a bigger role in both patent prosecution and litigation, so long as that prior art is “otherwise available to the public.”

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Pot Pharm: Booming Canada weed sector plots next-wave medicines

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Pot Pharm: Booming Canada weed sector plots next-wave medicines

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TORONTO (Reuters) – Canopy Growth Corp, one of the world’s biggest medical marijuana producers, now wants to take on the world’s pharmaceutical giants.

The Canadian firm launched Canopy Health Innovation in late 2016 to build a portfolio of patented and federally approved cannabinoid-based medicines. The venture is one of a small but growing number of companies here aiming to compete with established drugs treating diseases ranging from anxiety and chronic pain to multiple sclerosis and childhood epilepsy.

They’re developing research-backed formulations to be sold as pills, inhalers, solutions and creams, with the goal of convincing doctors and insurers to embrace marijuana as a mainstream medicine.

“You’ll see a lot of companies like Canopy Health starting to form, and they’re basically going to create medical cannabis 2.0,” Canopy Health Chief Executive Marc Wayne said in an interview. “There is a gold rush for cannabis intellectual property, and it’s accelerating.”

Canada’s relaxed regulations, mature marijuana industry and free-flowing capital offer such firms a unique opportunity to advance research without the legal and political risks that bog down cannabis firms in the United States and elsewhere.

While U.S. federal law continues to ban weed in all forms, Canada approved medical pot in 2001 and will legalize recreational use this year. Its government welcomes and even finances the research and clinical trials needed to fully legitimize medical cannabis.

Canada is also one of only two nations – along with the Netherlands – that currently exports marijuana, allowing firms here to take immediate advantage of recent medical pot legalizations in more than 20 countries. Research firm Brightfield Group last year forecast the global medical cannabis market would quadruple to $31.4 billion by 2021.

Offerings in today’s Canada medical marijuana market differ little from those used recreationally – the smokable plant and, more recently, oil extracts. More than 70 companies have licenses from the federal drug regulator, Health Canada, to cultivate, produce and sell medical marijuana, with more than half those licenses granted in 2017 or 2018.

Canopy Health and other firms now aim to craft new formulations with varying cannabinoid levels; to find the best dosage delivery systems, such as rapid-release or long-acting tablets or metered-dose inhalers; or to combine cannabinoids with other drugs or supplements to improve effectiveness.

Canada opened the door to serious medical research in 2015 with the approval of cannabinoid extract sales, allowing for the isolation of cannabis components that could form the basis of more sophisticated medicines.

The pace of research – and investment – quickened last year after the government introduced legislation to legalize recreational use. Equity offerings by Canadian marijuana firms tripled to nearly $1 billion in 2017.

Canopy Health raised C$16 million ($12.77 million) last year to finance medical trials alongside other institutions and researchers, Wayne said. It has filed 27 patents for treatment of insomnia relief and is now working on remedies for anxiety. The firm expects to have its first federal approval by about 2020.

Canopy Growth, a publicly listed firm valued at C$5.3 billion, retains a 46 percent stake in the new private company.

Canopy Health’s competitors include CanniMed, which last month agreed to be acquired by Aurora Cannabis to form what would be a C$6 billion firm, the world’s biggest marijuana producer by market value.

CanniMed has partnered with universities including McGill University in Montreal and the University of Manitoba on research into managing symptoms of multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis and pediatric epilepsy.

“Canadian companies are taking the lead because we’ve more freedom to operate and can actually afford it now,” Chief Executive Officer Brent Zettl said in an interview.

Other players forging ahead with medical research include MedReleaf, Emerald Health Therapeutics, Emblem Corp and Tilray, an unlisted company owned by private equity firm Privateer Holdings.

CONVINCING DOCTORS, INSURERS

Section grower Corey Evans walks between flowering marijuana plants at the Canopy Growth Corporation facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada, January 4, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Although some medical uses for marijuana have been long established – to reduce nausea, for instance, or treat glaucoma – little research exists to convince the health care establishment of its medical value.

Patients are typically only prescribed marijuana when they ask for it, and it’s open secret that “medical” marijuana is often used recreationally.

“The way the medical cannabis world now works is really patient-driven,” said Avtar Dhillon, executive chairman of Emerald Health Therapeutics and a medical doctor. “I can relate to physicians who want evidence.”

Emerald will soon start human clinical trials of a cannabis formulation to manage pain, he said.

Only a few Canadian insurance plans cover medical cannabis, including grocery chain Loblaw Cos’ employee insurance plan, Veterans Affairs Canada and insurer Sun Life Financial.

“There’s a lot we need to learn about this plant, and the research goes a long way to quantify and demonstrate its medical benefits,” said Jason Zandberg, a research analyst focused on small-cap growth companies at PI Financial.

Government money is helping the cause. Canada’s National Research Council awarded C$1.7 million for the study of cannabis between 2014 and 2017. Among the recipients were Emerald, MedReleaf and Tilray.

In January, the Canadian Institute of Health Research approved C$1.4 million for studies led by hospitals and universities into subjects including the impact of cannabis on driving and mental health.

LITTLE RESEARCH, MUCH DEBATE

Debates still rage over the effectiveness and risks of prescribing pot.

The concerns include addiction from long-term use, impaired cognitive function, anxiety, depression and lung cancer, according to a 2014 paper posted on the U.S. National Institutes for Health website.

“Cannabis has not been through Health Canada’s rigorous pharmaceutical regulatory process,” said Canadian Medical Association President Laurent Marcoux. “Physicians do not know about the appropriate dosage, the potential side effects and how it could interact with other medications.”

CanniMed Therapeutics has financed physician and pharmacist training programs developed by professionals in each field and accredited by their certification bodies, a company spokeswoman said.

Emblem Corp, which received Health Canada approval to sell medical marijuana in August 2016, is spending C$3.2 million over the next two years on studies to find the best cannabinoid strains to treat pain and reduce dependence on opioids.

The chief of the firm’s pharmaceutical division, John Stewart, previously worked as the Canadian and U.S. CEO for Purdue Pharma, the creator of OxyContin, a painkiller widely seen as a major contributor to North America’s opioid crisis.

But the firm needs more data, Stewart said.

“We don’t know yet how you might initiate cannabis therapy in a patient who wanted to discontinue their opioid therapy but certainly doesn’t want to discontinue their pain control,” he said.

Medical marijuana firms have an unusual advantage in that they can continue to sell a legal but largely unregulated medicine as they raise money for research into fully regulated products that might have “enormous potential” in the pharmaceutical market, said MedReleaf CEO Neil Closner.

“We’re allowed to sell a product that many people view as being a possible replacement for many pharmaceutical products,” he said. “But we’re not obligated to take it through the traditional Health Canada approval process.”

Reporting By Nichola Saminather; Editing by Denny Thomas and Brian Thevenot

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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