Medford Neighborhood Watch Bulletin

Stoney Girl

New Member
Cheif of Police is upset about medical marijuana and trying to change the laws:

· Care Providers can grow marijuana
for up to four patients.
· A Care Provider with four patients
could have 24 mature plants with 72
seedlings (96 plants)
· More than one Care Provider can
use the same grow site
The problem:
· Limited regulation of grow sites
· No restriction on how much
marijuana can be possessed
cumulatively. You could distribute
1.5 pounds every day if you are a
Care Provider
· Possession of 1.5 pounds is
unreasonable, 1.5 ounces is
reasonable
· No restrictions on how many Care
Providers can be at one grow site
· No restrictions on a where a Care
Provider grow site can be located
· Irresponsible doctors providing
approval to any adult that claims to
have pain
· Medical marijuana is not being
treated as other medicines that
require a prescription
· There is no restrictions where Care
Providers can grow marijuana
· The poorly written medical
marijuana laws are difficult to
enforce and encourage associated
criminal activity
Here is how to fix it:
· A united front during the next
legislative session to reform the
medical marijuana act
· Restrict access to medical marijuana
to truly chronic conditions such as
cancer patients
· Put the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Program under the supervision of
the Oregon Pharmacy Board
· Reduce the card holder amount to
1.5 ounces
· Define a maximum amount during a
specific time period that can be
possessed. One should not be able
to possess 1.5 pounds every day
· Limit the number of Care Providers
at a grow site
· Restrict locations where Care
Providers and grow medical
marijuana. There should not be
commercial Care Provider grow site
in heavily populated residential
areas and/or near parks and schools
· The number of adult plants needs to
be drastically reduced. Two mature
plants is closer to reasonable
· Create sanctions that permanently
suspend medical marijuana cards
for any criminal manufacturing
and/or distribution of marijuana
· Prohibit felons from obtaining a
medical marijuana card
What can you do:
· Become familiar with the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP)
· Report marijuana grows in your
neighborhood
· Contact your state and local
representatives to express your
concerns regarding OMMP and your
desire for legislative changes
The current law is unenforceable and
encourages and supports criminal
distribution under the guise and protection
of medicine.
We have spoken to numerous residents
that have expressed there frustration and
fear in having to live next to a commercial
marijuana grow site.
Please stand with us by contacting your
representatives to help change the laws to
better protect the livability of your
neighborhoods.
Randy Schoen — Chief of Police
 
More rederick from an ignorant soul. He honestly believes that Med MJ is Bull chit and Ive heard it spoken from the lips! Ignorant and dangerous!
 
He has a right to both state his beliefs in public and to campaign to change current laws (or pass new ones). But he does NOT have the right to refuse to uphold or ignore current laws, to persecute anyone based upon his beliefs, to either suggest to a member of the general public or a member of his own staff/department to do, to devote department time, monies, or resources to doing the same, or to in any way, shape, or form harass ANY citizen that is not committing any crimes and who is following current laws and ordinances.

This person bears watching - it sounds like he is already in danger of losing his job if not facing criminal charges and I sincerely hope that someone is instructing those same neighborhood watch groups to carefully observe his actions (and also educating them as to what to look for).

A "civilian" - any number of them - who might be breaking their laws is considered a problem by society. But a member of law-enforcement who does the same, is a clear and present danger and MUST be stopped (by legal means!). Otherwise, that same society and order which the LE person has sworn to protect, serve, and uphold the laws of is in serious trouble!

Cheif of Police is upset about medical marijuana and trying to change the laws:

Nothing inherently wrong about that - although as changing laws is not part of his job description, he should be prohibited from taking any such actions while on duty.

· No restriction on how much
marijuana can be possessed
cumulatively. You could distribute
1.5 pounds every day if you are a
Care Provider

This statement seems to be a little over the top. That would be distributing an average 42 ounces per week (he did state "every day") to each person that the caregiver is licensed to grow for. I would hope that there are people in this locality that are educating the populace about realistic numbers (and growing!) - along with the real truth about this person and the scare tactics that he is using on his ignorant neighbors.

· Possession of 1.5 pounds is
unreasonable, 1.5 ounces is
reasonable

Is he a police officer or a doctor? I have been told that some people have recommendations for three ounces per week. Is he stating that he knows more than doctors (the least-accomplished of which has spent both several years in and several hundred thousand dollars on medical school) - or just that people with such recommendations should have to make twice-weekly pickups of their medicine? If the former, he's both an egotist and an idiot, if the latter... just an idiot. The more often that a person has to pick up their cannabis, the more chances there are for a criminal to rob them. Is that what he is hoping for, that there will be many more muggings of sick people? Is his budget that small that he feels the need to precipitate a crime wave? (I can write alarmist statements too, lol, and I'm heavily-medicated (and NOT on cannabis, sadly)).

· No restrictions on how many Care
Providers can be at one grow site

So you claim to have problems with grow sites - and yet you would much prefer that there were a great deal more of them? Are you this illogical when (you should be) carrying out your duties?

· No restrictions on a where a Care
Provider grow site can be located

What logical grounds do you have for stating that there should be? No tired old many-times disproven arguments please; you'll have to come up with a FACT or two in order to have any credibility whatsoever. So far, it's not looking very good for you in that regard.

· Irresponsible doctors providing
approval to any adult that claims to
have pain

While I cannot dispute the fact that it is entirely within the realm of possibility that some doctors may be erring on the side of the patient, your statement is again not only not backed up with facts but also highly alarmist, out of proportion, and verging on outright propaganda.

In almost every case where such errors might have happened, one could easily construe that the bulk of the fault lies with you - and others like you - who have fought the research of cannabis and what (and what levels) of medical problems that it is and is not effective against.

It can be stated beyond a shadow of a doubt that some drug-seekers have gotten pills, patches, and injections from hospitals when they did not require them for medical use. By your "logic," we should immediately close all hospitals unless and until an unbeatable solution to the drug-seeking problem has been thought up and put into practice.

Every year there are forest fires in this country. Tell me, are you in favor of cutting down every tree as well - or do your policies of hurting the innocent as a lazy man's strategy of stopping the actions of the problem members of a group only extend to your own species?

· Medical marijuana is not being
treated as other medicines that
require a prescription

That is plainly not the fault of either the users of medical-use cannabis, the doctors that recommend it, or the many doctors and researchers that have stated - based upon FACTS, not conjecture or any form of "reefer-madness" propaganda - for many years that cannabis should be - at the very least - a recognized medicine that should be able to be prescribed to anyone who demonstrates a need for it. Again, this is based upon facts - such as the fact that it is both less addictive and less harmful than many "medicines" that can be prescribed. Thanks to the continuing efforts of the stupid, the easily-led, and the greedy, cannabis can only be recommended by a doctor and not prescribed. Again, this is NOT the fault of the users, the growers, or the doctors.

· There is no restrictions where Care
Providers can grow marijuana

Repeating yourself because your imagination has run out of fables so soon?

· The poorly written medical
marijuana laws are difficult to
enforce

Are you stating that you are unable to perform your job? Perhaps you should resign and pursue a career that better suits your abilities.

and encourage associated
criminal activity

Aside from the case of zealots such as yourself - especially those such as you who have an official standing as a LEO in your community - encouraging people to inform on and persecute their neighbors (who are obeying the laws), I have seen no evidence of criminal activity. Therefore, I must assume that your statement does not have any validity. Again, perhaps you would like to present some facts since your abilities as a story-teller leave something to be desired?


· Restrict access to medical marijuana
to truly chronic conditions such as
cancer patients

Are you stating for the record that you have the medical knowledge to base this statement on, Doctor - I mean Mister Schoen? Can you state - while quoting facts - that cannabis is only effective in treating chronic conditions? What, exactly, do you have against persons that suffer from conditions that are not chronic in nature that causes you to wish to limit their care options?

Furthermore, would you please enlighten your fellow citizens as to which of the many physical and mental conditions and ailments that cannabis has been clearly shown - through years of research, anecdotal evidence, and practical usage in many countries - that you have decided based upon your wealth of medical knowledge (which I am assuming that you are basing this and most of your other statements on, rather than out of a sadistic desire to persecute, deny care to, and cause further pain to a group of people that has been shown time and time again to be statistically one of the most law-abiding and least violent groups of people in existence) to group under your heading of "conditions such as cancer patients" and which ones you would be pleased to no end if the sufferers of which were forced to... suffer? I am sure your fellow citizens who either suffer from or know someone that suffers from conditions such as muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, Crohn's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, epilepsy, arthritis, moderate to severe pain from an injury, clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention-deficit disorder, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, recovering addicts (of either illicit or prescription drugs), or any of the many other physical and mental conditions that can be treated or at least the suffering from eased by cannabis would like to know. I am sure the many sufferers of those same conditions who's life consisted chiefly of large periods of time spent in bed - or in a mental fog - punctuated by their ingestion of large quantities of "pills, patches, and/or injections" which - whether or not they actually eased the problem for which they were being prescribed them - caused more harm through their various side-affects than they helped before cannabis became a legal, viable treatment option for them would also like to know.

· Put the Oregon Medical Marijuana
Program under the supervision of
the Oregon Pharmacy Board

Are you stating for the record that you are in favor of seeing cannabis removed from its current location in the Schedule of Controlled Substances so that it may then be regulated by state medical authorities?

· Reduce the card holder amount to
1.5 ounces

Again, this is illogical because your figure has nothing to do with the amount that each patient has been recommended to use on a weekly basis to deal with their condition. It also does not take into consideration either the strengths of the various chemicals that are in the strain that works best for them or the method that they use to ingest it.

· Define a maximum amount during a
specific time period that can be
possessed. One should not be able
to possess 1.5 pounds every day

Your words are both repetitive and plainly illogical. Do you spend more than $500 every day? Do you possess more than $500 in your bank account at any one time? Aspirins are available in bottles that contain 100 or more pills per bottle. Have you determined that you must only possess ten every day so that you do not succumb to an unnatural compulsion to swallow the entire contents of the bottle? Are you operating under the mistaken and ignorant belief that the shelf-life of cannabis is 24 hours or less and that therefore a person must consume the total amount of cannabis that they possess in that period of time.

Frankly, by your very words I must wonder how you make it through the day without seriously harming yourself - let alone how you manage to perform your official duties. Again, perhaps you should consider stepping down both as a service to the community that you claim to serve and so that you can find a caregiver to take care of you.

· Limit the number of Care Providers
at a grow site
· Restrict locations where Care
Providers and grow medical
marijuana. There should not be
commercial Care Provider grow site
in heavily populated residential
areas and/or near parks and schools

With the exception that caregivers should not be considered to be commercial enterprises in the first place - and I believe that under the current laws that they are not - what facts or logic do you base those statements on? Or are these yet more examples of your ignorance and unbridled hate of the ill?

· The number of adult plants needs to
be drastically reduced. Two mature
plants is closer to reasonable

So now you claim to be an expert cannabis grower in addition to a doctor? Tell me, are you a medical-marijuana card-holder or did you come by your cannabis-growing knowledge illegally?

· Create sanctions that permanently
suspend medical marijuana cards
for any criminal manufacturing
and/or distribution of marijuana

I believe that this is clearly not in line with the punishments meted out for those who have been found guilty of defrauding programs such as unemployment benefits, social security benefits, workers' compensation funds, et cetera. Persons that persecute groups of people are known to have mental problems. Persons that persecute a single group of people are known to have mental problems AND to be bigots.

I also notice that you make no distinction between those who have been found guilty of these acts since the medical-marijuana laws were enacted in your state and those who were found guilty before they were enacted. Are you stating that persons that are in the position of being found guilty for doing something beforehand that they would not be found guilty of now should be forced to be labeled as criminals for attempting to treat their ills in a way that they would otherwise have no problems in obtaining your state's de facto approval of?

· Prohibit felons from obtaining a
medical marijuana card

So in addition to your persecution of the ill, you would withhold a treatment option to anyone who has at any time committed a crime and then been judged to have served out their punishment for? In addition to a doctor and an expert cannabis grower, are you now stating that you are qualified as a judge as well?

· Become familiar with the Oregon
Medical Marijuana Program (OMMP)

For once we are in agreement. I would suggest that all citizens become familiar with their laws - including yourself. You seem to be woefully unfamiliar with several of them. Again, perhaps you should vacate your office until such time as you can demonstrate at least a working knowledge of both the law and your job.

· Report marijuana grows in your
neighborhood

Because of the fact that you have heretofore concentrated solely on legal cannabis growers, one must wonder if it is legal grows that you have an inordinate interest in seeing the citizens of your community report on. If so, such statements verge on suggesting outright discrimination and again, I wonder if you should perhaps vacate your office for the good of the community. Another person that based his political agenda on the persecution of a group of innocents was Adolph Hitler. Do you also have aspirations of becoming a dictator?

The current law is unenforceable

There you go again, stating for the public record that you are unable to perform your job. Why then are you still drawing a salary?

encourages and supports criminal
distribution under the guise and protection
of medicine.

Yet again, repetitive, illogical, and wholly lacking in facts to support your claims.

We have spoken to numerous residents
that have expressed there frustration and
fear in having to live next to a commercial
marijuana grow site.

"We?" In addition to yearning to become a dictator, you also consider yourself to be royalty? Or are you referring to other members of your department? Are you - in addition to illegally spending your official time, monies, and resources on creating problems in your community - encouraging other members of your department to do the same? Perhaps in addition to vacating your office, you should be investigated and charged for criminal wrongdoing and misuse of your office.

As to the "numerous residents" that you have spoken to, did they total an appreciable portion of your community? Were they a representative sample of same? Are they all both as demonstrably-irrational and as willfully-ignorant as you have clearly shown yourself to be?

Please stand with us by contacting your
representatives to help change the laws to
better protect the livability of your
neighborhoods.
Randy Schoen — Chief of Police

Please do your utmost to remove this person from his position as Chief of Police - a position that he has stated he is unable to perform the duties of and one in which he is using his official standing to promote his own irrational political agenda.
 
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