Cannabis Science Inc (fka CBIS)

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What a bunch of crap. How is it Ethan Nadelman, director of The Drug Policy Alliance, is talking as if he's never heard of the Jack Herer Initiative, which is already written and has already launched their campaign to be on the ballot in 2012?

http://www.youthfederation.com/cchhi2012.html

Nadelman is obviously lying through his teeth, and Hoeffel and the LA Times are aiding and abetting.

Both Michael Jolson and Bruce Margolin are part of the CCHHI 2012 group, and spoke at the conference.

How is it the L.A. Times reporter failed to notice them or their initiative - the one endorsed and promoted by Jack Herer, The Emperor of Hemp, for years?

Could it be our emperors, such as Ethan Nadleman, Allan St. Pierre, Russ Beliville, and Chris Conrad - could it be they have no clothes?

Well, you have been "warned" by Nadleman - abandon your principles because "principles" are not what this is about.

Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which has played a major role in California's drug reform initiatives, warned that activists were going to have to balance their principles with what will be possible to pass. "All I can think is, God, this is complicated," he said.

Prop 215 was passed in spite of these people, not because of them. It's an interesting story, maybe I'll tell it sometime.

Another serious concern is that moderates will prevail in the drafting of a legalization initiative for 2012. During the drafting of the Prop. 215 text for the initiative there were two groups, the moderates and the radicals. The moderates were better organized, but their initiative was very limited and would, as Dennis Peron joked, "only allow medical marijuana for patients in their last half hour of life."

Peron's initiative was much more radical and specific. It provided a legal exemption to the laws on possession and cultivation of cannabis for medical purposes. It was short, sweet and without any limits. Then, out of the blue, we found out that the moderates had secretly filed their initiative, beating our group to the start line. Unfortunately for them, they paid by check. It was only because John Entwistle went to Sacramento, filed our version of the initiative and paid by money order that our version was adopted and became what we all know as Prop. 215, the Compassionate Use Act.

http://www.nolanchart.com/article8285.html