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There are a number of resources patients can use to find a caregiver, such as the caregiver/patient forum and member directory on AZMCA.

Soon you will be able to search by city, but until then, each caregiver’s location is listed next to their name. Click on their profile and you can send a private message to the caregiver by clicking the “Send this User a Message” button under their profile picture.

You can also find a caregiver on other sites like azmarijuana.com. In addition to the marijuana delivery directory and marijuana caregiver directory, you can also find medicine and caregivers in the marijuana classified ads.

Happy hunting!

Not to worry though, there are marijuana certification centers out there that will help make the process as simple as possible. Check out Cannabis Certification Centers, Arizona Medical Marijuana Certification Centers, or Green Cross Clinics. All three of these businesses can get you re-certified quickly and easily.

Don’t put off getting your marijuana card renewed, the State began accepting marijuana card renewal applications this month.

If you don’t have a marijuana card yet, these doctors can get you a certified today.

Cannabis Certification Centers

Cannabis Certification Centers has offices in Scottsdale.

Arizona Medical Marijuana Certification Centers

Arizona Medical Marijuana Certification Centers as offices in Socttsdale, Tucson, Flagstaff, Sun City, Ahwatukee and Cottonwood.

Green Cross Clinics

Green Cross Clinics is located in Phoenix, Arizona.

5 tp 10 drops under the tounge takes my pain away.

Tinctures are also great for making THC-infused edibles. Especially those that you can’t use THC-infused oil or butter like candy, ice-cream and other sweets.

Donation Amount:

$60 for one 1/2 ounce bottle.

Donations Amounts:

$60 for an 1/8th

$380 for a ounce

The issue next heads to the Ohio Ballot Board, which will determine whether it should appear on the Nov. 6 general-election ballot as a single issue or multiple issues. Secretary of State Jon Husted set a board meeting for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. If the board approves, supporters will be allowed to begin collecting the 385,245 valid signatures of registered voters necessary to qualify for the ballot.

In October, the Ballot Board approved a similar medical-marijuana ballot issue, the Ohio Alternative Treatment Amendment. Supporters are gathering signatures for that issue.

Either issue, if passed, would allow Ohioans with qualifying medical conditions to buy, possess and grow marijuana for medicinal purposes.

The Medical Cannabis Amendment, certified yesterday, is backed primarily by a group made up of patients seeking pain relief for medical conditions.

The proposed language says Ohioans have “inalienable rights” under the Ohio Constitution, including the right to “be eligible to use cannabis as medicine as a result of a diagnosed debilitating medical condition.” The issue would establish an Ohio Commission of Cannabis Control to regulate medical cannabis in Ohio.

The group’s initial proposal was rejected by DeWine last year because it did not fairly summarize the proposal.

The other issue, the Alternative Treatment Amendment, would allow qualified medical practitioners to prescribe marijuana for patients at least 18 years old with a qualifying medical condition. Patients could obtain up to 3.5 ounces of marijuana at a time and could cultivate up to 12 marijuana plants.

Both proposals are aimed at sufferers with specified medical conditions: cancer, Parkinson’s disease, HIV and AIDS, post-traumatic stress disorder, sickle-cell anemia, glaucoma and others.

Backers of the competing amendments have been unable to agree to work together and decided to move ahead independently.

Sixteen states and the District of Columbia have some form of medical-marijuana law.

Information about the Ohio Medical Cannabis Amendment of 2012 is available at: http://www.omca2012.org

Information about the Ohio Alternative Treatment Amendment is at: http://www.ohiommjballot.org/hometop.html

Source: Columbus Dispatch (OH)
Author: Alan Johnson, The Columbus Dispatch
Published: Saturday, January 21, 2012
Copyright: 2012 The Columbus Dispatch
Contact: letters@dispatch.com
Website: http://www.dispatch.com/

It is great for pain relief and nausea.

Domation Amounts

$65 for an 1/8th of an ounce
$380 for an ounce

A new poll suggests Canada may have reached the tipping point and a 66-per-cent majority favours legalizing marijuana.

Hallelujah! Finally we might get a sensible public policy discussion in this country about what to do about a relatively benign substance that has been demonized and outlawed for a century yet is as readily available in schoolyards as cigarettes.

The prohibition and a 40-year-long “War on Drugs” have led to pot being more widely accessible, taxpayers considerably poorer, gangs richer and thousands upon thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens branded “criminal.”

Another 50,000 or so Canadians are busted every year for possession; throw in 20,000 or so traffickers and producers and this so-called war is costing us as much as $400 million annually in law enforcement, court and corrections.

Bearing in mind a million dollars a year buys roughly 12 new cops, 14 teachers or public health nurses, ask yourself: Couldn’t all that money be better spent?

The federal Liberal party obviously thinks so – 77 per cent of delegates at the weekend convention voted to legalize the herb, echoing the Senate special committee on illegal drugs (chaired by a Conservative), which 10 years ago urged the government to free the weed. Four decades ago, the LeDain Commission similarly called for an end to the criminal prohibition of cannabis.

Across the country today, more and more people agree.

Conducted Dec. 13 by Toronto-based Forum Research Inc. and released Tuesday, the latest poll of 1,160 respondents 18 or older showed that residents of B.C. were the most likely to support pot-law reform, with 73 per cent wanting change.

Quebec had the lowest support for reforms at 61 per cent.

(The interactive voice-response telephone survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.)

Who’s leading the way? Those aged 55 to 64.

Why? Yes, there are a lot of old hippies. But of all the age cohorts, the middle-aged and elderly, the late-boomers are learning faster than most that marijuana may be the Aspirin of the 21st century.

Medicinal marijuana is changing the debate about pot across the continent.

From cancer patients fighting nausea from chemotherapy to those suffering from glaucoma, Crohn’s disease and other ailments, pot brings therapeutic relief unavailable from pharmaceutical products.

Its growing and widespread use is erasing old stoner stereotypes and triggering a more grown-up adult conversation about the weed.

And money is driving it – not just the prospect of future tax revenue estimated in the billions, but fortunes are being made right now off medical marijuana.

In some U.S. states with med-pot pro-grams, big box stores have opened selling hydroponic gear, specialized equipment and supplies for growers.

The IRS says one single Oakland marijuana dispensary owes $2.5 million in back taxes. Another generates about $18.5 million annually in sales.

There are 16 states that have medical marijuana programs and in the three west coast states, advocates are readying tax-and-sell or other legalization programs.

Ending the criminal prohibition of marijuana does not mean making it freely available – it means regulating it as we do alcohol and tobacco, far more dangerous substances.

Portugal legalized pot and other drugs a decade ago and the sky did not fall: European drug addicts did not flock to the country nor did Spain suffer the feared nasty side effects.

This poll should spur the federal government to rethink its crime legislation and to begin a discussion about different models of legalization.

Recreational pot smoking then could be dealt with as we have battled the much more deadly use of tobacco – with public-health campaigns and education.

No one has gone to jail for taking a cigarette break or been busted for grabbing a quick puff, yet we’ve driven down usage and tobacco has far less cachet today.

The hipster attraction of marijuana can be similarly attacked without exposing our children to criminal prosecution and the risk of a record following them for life.

Let’s treat marijuana and other drugs as a health issue rather than a crime.

It’s cheaper, better for our communities and safer for kids.

It would let police focus on real criminals, ease the burden of overloaded, backlogged courts and save a fortune in expensive legal and penal costs.

Interim Liberal leader Bob Rae summed it up pretty well in his closing speech: “Let’s face up to it, Canada, the war on drugs has been a complete bust.”

Source: Vancouver Sun
Author: Ian Mulgrew
Link: http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Hallelujah+Canadians+agree+time+legalize+marijuana/6013181/story.html

OTTAWA — Federal Liberals are taking some risky departures from the cautious political norm in a bid to put their once-mighty party back on the electoral map.

Sunday, they overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for the legalization and regulation of marijuana — a position immediately endorsed in principle by interim leader Bob Rae, although it remains to be seen how, or if, the resolution translates into a platform plank for the next election.

“Let’s face up to it, Canada: The war on drugs has been a complete bust,” Rae declared in a closing speech to a three-day Liberal renewal convention.

Until now, Liberals have called only for decriminalization of marijuana, as has the NDP.  The new call to legalize it completely and regulate its production and sale, much as with alcohol, is in stark contrast to the policy of the governing Conservatives, who included stiffer penalties for marijuana possession in their omnibus tough-on-crime bill.

The legalize-pot resolution came on the heels of another potentially risky gamble for the Liberals.  After a heated debate late Saturday, delegates agreed to invite all liberal-minded Canadians to take part in choosing the party’s next leader.

The party will create a new class of Liberal “supporters” — anyone willing to register as believers in core Liberal values — who will not have to pay a fee for a membership card to participate in leadership contests.

Wrapping up the convention, Rae heralded the two moves as a sign the chastened Liberal party is reaching out and renewing itself after last May’s humiliating rout, when the party was reduced to a third-party rump with only 34 seats in Parliament.

“We Liberals have clearly and emphatically said to the people of Canada: ‘We embrace change and we embrace all Canadians as we rebuild this great national party.’ ”

Delegates further embraced change by choosing Mike Crawley as their new party president.  He beat out Sheila Copps, a veteran former cabinet minister, who some Liberals felt symbolized the past, by a slim 26 votes.

Rae maintained the convention underscores the difference between the Liberals and the more ideologically driven Tories and NDP, whom he described as dogmatic adherents to rigid “orthodoxies.”

“If you want to be part of a group of free-thinking, innovative, thoughtful, pragmatic, hopeful, positive, happy people, come and join the Liberal party,” he exhorted, adding with a chuckle, “And after the resolution on marijuana today, it’s going to be a group of even happier people in the Liberal party.”

Rae told delegates it makes no sense “to send another generation of young people into prison” for marijuana offences when “the most addictive substances that are facing Canada today are alcohol and cigarettes.”

Though they were willing to take some risks, delegates balked at a resolution calling on Canada to consider cutting its ties to the monarchy, an idea that would open a constitutional can of worms.

Both the marijuana and monarchy resolutions were put forward by the party’s youth wing, which argued the Liberal party needs to advance bold ideas that are more reflective of young people if it is to revive.

“I think that there’s a certain amount of generational change happening in the party,” said Samuel Lavoie, president of the Liberal youth wing.

“We’re willing to push the envelope and we have the numbers and we have the willpower to flex our muscles when it’s needed.”

The marijuana resolution is not binding on the leader or party.  Delegates specifically rejected a proposal to remove the leader’s veto over the contents of future election platforms, so there’s no guarantee the party will ever actually campaign on legalizing pot.

Under Jean Chretien’s government, the Liberals introduced legislation to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a ticketing, rather than criminal, offence.

The bill was not pursued when Paul Martin took over the helm of the party and the Harper government has since dropped the idea entirely, moving in the opposite direction.

Delegates also supported reforming the country’s electoral system, agreeing to promote the idea of preferential balloting in federal elections, rather than the current first-past-the-post system.  Preferential ballots, in which voters rank candidates, would ensure that only those who receive more than 50 per cent of the vote in their ridings would be elected to the House of Commons.

If no one received more than half the votes right off the bat, the last-place candidate in a riding would be eliminated, with his or her supporters’ second choices then being tallied.  The process would continue until one candidate emerged with more than 50 per cent.

They also endorsed a non-binding directive that all Liberal nomination contests be open, other than specified exceptions recommended by the leader and approved by the party’s national executive.

Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2012 Winnipeg Free Press
Contact: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/send_a_letter
Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
Author: Joan Bryden

OTTAWA — Federal Liberals are taking some risky departures from the cautious political norm in a bid to put their once-mighty party back on the electoral map.

Sunday, they overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for the legalization and regulation of marijuana — a position immediately endorsed in principle by interim leader Bob Rae, although it remains to be seen how, or if, the resolution translates into a platform plank for the next election.

“Let’s face up to it, Canada: The war on drugs has been a complete bust,” Rae declared in a closing speech to a three-day Liberal renewal convention.

Until now, Liberals have called only for decriminalization of marijuana, as has the NDP.  The new call to legalize it completely and regulate its production and sale, much as with alcohol, is in stark contrast to the policy of the governing Conservatives, who included stiffer penalties for marijuana possession in their omnibus tough-on-crime bill.

The legalize-pot resolution came on the heels of another potentially risky gamble for the Liberals.  After a heated debate late Saturday, delegates agreed to invite all liberal-minded Canadians to take part in choosing the party’s next leader.

The party will create a new class of Liberal “supporters” — anyone willing to register as believers in core Liberal values — who will not have to pay a fee for a membership card to participate in leadership contests.

Wrapping up the convention, Rae heralded the two moves as a sign the chastened Liberal party is reaching out and renewing itself after last May’s humiliating rout, when the party was reduced to a third-party rump with only 34 seats in Parliament.

“We Liberals have clearly and emphatically said to the people of Canada: ‘We embrace change and we embrace all Canadians as we rebuild this great national party.’ ”

Delegates further embraced change by choosing Mike Crawley as their new party president.  He beat out Sheila Copps, a veteran former cabinet minister, who some Liberals felt symbolized the past, by a slim 26 votes.

Rae maintained the convention underscores the difference between the Liberals and the more ideologically driven Tories and NDP, whom he described as dogmatic adherents to rigid “orthodoxies.”

“If you want to be part of a group of free-thinking, innovative, thoughtful, pragmatic, hopeful, positive, happy people, come and join the Liberal party,” he exhorted, adding with a chuckle, “And after the resolution on marijuana today, it’s going to be a group of even happier people in the Liberal party.”

Rae told delegates it makes no sense “to send another generation of young people into prison” for marijuana offences when “the most addictive substances that are facing Canada today are alcohol and cigarettes.”

Though they were willing to take some risks, delegates balked at a resolution calling on Canada to consider cutting its ties to the monarchy, an idea that would open a constitutional can of worms.

Both the marijuana and monarchy resolutions were put forward by the party’s youth wing, which argued the Liberal party needs to advance bold ideas that are more reflective of young people if it is to revive.

“I think that there’s a certain amount of generational change happening in the party,” said Samuel Lavoie, president of the Liberal youth wing.

“We’re willing to push the envelope and we have the numbers and we have the willpower to flex our muscles when it’s needed.”

The marijuana resolution is not binding on the leader or party.  Delegates specifically rejected a proposal to remove the leader’s veto over the contents of future election platforms, so there’s no guarantee the party will ever actually campaign on legalizing pot.

Under Jean Chretien’s government, the Liberals introduced legislation to make possession of small amounts of marijuana a ticketing, rather than criminal, offence.

The bill was not pursued when Paul Martin took over the helm of the party and the Harper government has since dropped the idea entirely, moving in the opposite direction.

Delegates also supported reforming the country’s electoral system, agreeing to promote the idea of preferential balloting in federal elections, rather than the current first-past-the-post system.  Preferential ballots, in which voters rank candidates, would ensure that only those who receive more than 50 per cent of the vote in their ridings would be elected to the House of Commons.

If no one received more than half the votes right off the bat, the last-place candidate in a riding would be eliminated, with his or her supporters’ second choices then being tallied.  The process would continue until one candidate emerged with more than 50 per cent.

They also endorsed a non-binding directive that all Liberal nomination contests be open, other than specified exceptions recommended by the leader and approved by the party’s national executive.

Source: Winnipeg Free Press (CN MB)
Copyright: 2012 Winnipeg Free Press
Contact: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/send_a_letter
Website: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/
Author: Joan Bryden