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October 10, 2014 Radio Commentary

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Weed & Welfare

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, October 10, 2014 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

The Department of Health and Human Services claims it’s perfectly legal to use EBT cards to buy marijuana. EBT cards provide electronic benefit transfers to food stamp recipients. So, the Department of Health and Human Services is telling us that recipients of welfare can use food stamps to buy an illegal, dangerous, debilitating, delusion producing, brain-damaging substance that destroys lives and law-abiding citizens are stuck with the tab.

The HHS decision was prompted because welfare recipients in Colorado can withdraw cash with EBT cards and trot down to local retail stores or dispensaries to buy marijuana joints.

HHS Secretary Burrell said, “We understand that legislators in Colorado have already explored prohibiting EBT withdrawals at retail marijuana shops and medical-marijuana dispensaries,” but claims federal regulations provide no wiggle room to stop their use for weed, although EBT funds are prohibited in liquor stores, gun stores, strip clubs, and casinos. Continue reading →

August 2014 Newsletter

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“Pot” in the Kitchen, “The New Gold Rush!”

“It’s the latest cannabis craze – a concentrated form of marijuana known as ‘wax.’
It looks like ear wax, but potheads say it smokes like a mule kicks.”
– “Latest Cannabis Craze: Marijuana known as ‘Wax’,” by Phil Shuman May 21, 2013
“There is no weed out there that possesses the punching power that the wax does. And it’s like smoking 20 joints of the best grade of weed that you have into one hit of the wax.”
– DEA Agent Interview on Nightline.

Ear wax bust, Roswell, GA. On August 8, 2014 Roswell police found 80 grams of powerful “ear wax” marijuana in a suspected drug dealer’s home. Ear wax, also called butter or Butane Hash Oil (BHO), may be up to 90-proof, instead of 14-percent THC leaf marijuana contains. The product is derived from “blasting” a chemical solvent, such as butane, CO2, through the plant, then “purging” the solvent away. The resulting substance can be used in e-cigarettes or smoked or eaten and may be readily made by “home chefs” in make-shift equipment.

Rock Hill, S.C. ear wax made half-mile from middle school. In a Rock Hill, S.C. home police officers discovered marijuana hash oil being made on a double hot plate. “It’s just pure marijuana resin, pure THC,” said the York County, S.C. Drug Enforcement Unit Commander.

Ear wax is sold in Colorado dispensaries to anyone over 21. Denver’s February three-day “X-Cup” contest accomplished its goal in broad daylight. The winning contestant was the one who made the highest THC ear wax, using aerosol butane to force THC from buds and leaves of female marijuana plants. “It’s a mom-and-pop business,” Nightline was told.
California Solano County Alcohol & Drug Advisory board member said, “In the 1970s, [users] were primarily smoking the leaves…. Now [they] are smoking the more potent buds of the plant,” and children as young as 12 are experimenting, risking long-term damage.

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August 8, 2014 Radio Commentary

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Marijuana

Radio Commentary, 90.7, 91.7 New Life FM, August 8, 2014 – By Sue Ella Deadwyler

Medical marijuana was a BIG issue this year in the legislature. The halls of the Capitol were filled with folks interested in H.B. 885 to amend Georgia’s 1980 law that legalized the use of marijuana to treat cancer and glaucoma. H.B. 885 changed the word “marijuana” to “cannabis,” and authorized its use as a non-smoking medication in clinical trials and research for the treatment of seizure disorders, glaucoma, cancer and the side effects of cancer treatment.

The 1980 law did not prohibit the smoking of marijuana for medical purposes, but H.B. 885 stipulated the product as “medical cannabis,” and defined it as nonpsychoactive extracts and compounds in non-smoking forms of liquid, pill, vaporization, or injection, which does NOT include recreational forms of marijuana. However, H.B. 885 died at the end of the session. Continue reading →

April 2014 Newsletter

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Passed: Cancer Coverage Equity; Obamacare
Navigator Program to Cease!

 When H.B. 943 becomes law, cancer coverage will be enhanced, Georgia will not implement or operate a health exchange, and navigator programs will end when the navigator grant money is spent.

Conjoined: The Tale of Two Bills

[For 40 days after the session, the governor may veto, sign or allow bills to become law without his signature.]
When District 27’s Representative Lee Hawkins of Gainesville introduced H.B. 943 February 6th, he had no idea how important it would be. From its introduction by Representative Jason Spencer of District 180, H.B. 707 was in trouble. But, thankfully, Representative Hawkins, put his own H.B. 943 at risk to allow Representative Spencer to amend it with critical parts of H.B. 707, and it paid off. On March 18th, the amended bill passed, doubly benefiting Georgians.

Passed within H.B. 943 were parts of H.B. 707, the “Georgia Health Care Freedom Act.” So, when the governor signs it or by July 1st, a new law in Georgia will include this paragraph: “31-1-40. Neither the state nor any department, agency, bureau, authority, office, or other unit of the state nor any political subdivision of the state shall expend or use moneys, human resources, or assets to advocate or intended to influence the citizens of this state in support of the voluntary expansion by the State of Georgia of eligibility for medical assistance in furtherance of the federal ‘Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,’ beyond the eligibility criteria in effect on the effective date of this Code section under the provisions of … the federal Social Security Act as amended.”

Additional Requirements of H.B. 707, as Passed in H.B 943

  • The attorney general will enforce provisions of the Georgia Health Care Freedom Act.
  • Bona fide educational instruction about Obamacare is not prohibited.
  • MEDICAID programs will not be affected.
  • Establishment or operation of a state exchange for Obamacare is prohibited.
  • Conversion of an existing program into a state exchange is prohibited.
  • Navigator programs will be terminated and not renewed when navigator grants expire.
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