Monday is an important day at the Oklahoma State Capitol. Rep. Jon Echols & Rep. Scott Fetgatter will be hearing from several advocates & leaders in the Medical Marijuana public policy and industry.
  It's an important opportunity to hear from the new director of the OMMA.
  There will also be some very good messages supporting the treatment innovations and new studies on pain management.

GROWERS AND PROCESSORS!!!! For the love of all things, please, I beg of you, stop doing processing on splits/tolls without a written agreement. All you are doing by not having a contract is creating a situation where I will end up being rich having to either prosecute or defend lawsuits. I would prefer not to have to do that.

  If you are an MMJ Business, here is some important info about business license renewals, and a bit about anyone waiting for licensure.
  The legislature screwed up last year, and hastily vetoed the correction this year.
  Now the MMJ industry producers & distributors are in a legal battle to remain in operation. 
​  But you must keep your license in play by following the instructions we detail in this episode.

VOTE TODAY!!!!
These are some key House and Senate races with primaries today. Please share the word and encourage your friends and family to vote for these candidates.
House

• Roe district 42
• McDugle district 12
• Pittman district 99
• Peixotto district 74

Senate

• Scott district 43
• Morrissey district 35
• Sharp district 17

Post your pro medical marijuana candidates below.

  Coming live about Real Estate with Sean Worley, an Oklahoma Real with Coldwell Banker & His 420 Real Estate Group. We answer your questions here. Oh and Brad Peixotto from Owasso who is running for OK House came by and needs your vote.

  OK4U is a program to help ensure medical marijuana patients and stakeholders of quality assurance in a new and newly regulated marketplace. OK4U has created a list of quality benchmarks for a variety of businesses and services that operate within the Oklahoman cannabis market, to include legal compliance, safety practices, staff development, industry standards, and customer/patient services.
OK4U offers a comprehensive certification process that ensures all business, facilities, and service providers are offering safe, quality, and affordable products, services, and agreements.

  This should terrify every medical marijuana patient and business. You can thank the authors and people behind 806 and 807 for risking the entire medical marijuana program. As you know, they withdrew 806 and filed 807. Paul Tay challenged 807 on the basis of the Supremacy Clause arguing that since its federally illegal to possess medical marijuana, the state can’t consider a ballot petition that would be contrary to federal law. The Oklahoma Supreme Court is made up of 9 Justices.
​  In a VERY CLOSE VOTE, as outlined below, they ruled that the Supremacy Clause does not kill SQ807. Now, we all know that I think 807 is garbage and should be thrown in the trash. I’m just glad that the Oklahoma Supreme Court did not kill it on this issue. If they had, 788 WOULD BE DEAD!!!! These people are risking it all, for what I ask you? Nothing!!!
​  Please let’s ensure that they don’t get the signatures needed so we don’t have to challenge it further. Anyone running a petition on the issue of medical marijuana is risking 788 entirely. Vote went as follows:
¶44 Gurich, C.J., Kauger, Winchester, Edmondson and Combs, JJ., concur;
¶45 Darby, V.C.J., Kane (by separate writing) and Rowe (by separate writing), JJ., dissent;
¶46 Colbert, J., not participating.

1. Quick Update on the health situation.
2. Lawsuit filed today about the 2 year residency requirement and the 1,000 foot rule (see post just before this one for a link to the lawsuit). Meeting with the receptive Mike Hunter soon to discuss resolution of the case (thanks Representative Echols).
3. Updates about Patient Information, the HB 3228 Veto, and OMMA Regulations.
4. Meeting with OBNDD.
5. Fundraisers for Representative Jon Echols and Representative Scott Fetgatter and some surprise Oklahoma Senate candidates on July 20th in Tulsa and July 23rd in OKC.

  See the message direct from the Governor regarding HB3228. I can confirm, yes, solutions are still being worked on. To disagree with the Governor, I think a Special Session could be called.
  He is correct there is construction, as we saw them pulling desks out of the House chamber last time we were there, but that’s not a very valid reason. Regardless, as I’ve said before, it is clear now that delivery was the big issue for Governor Stitt. That’s actually helpful to know for sure. I don’t think the seed to sale system has anything to do with that, and the statement reflects a lack of full understanding how that works, but I believe he believes it’s essential. I’m not sure where he sources his information, but we need to work to get him better and more educated sources.
  We have to take it upon ourselves to educate him and those that advise him and the legislature on these areas where they seem to have terrible information (It would be helpful if Governor Stitt would take a meeting about this, hint, hint). I’ve expressed my own concerns that delivery could present a myriad of problems, so I understand some hesitation.

 We have secured a meeting between the governor's office and legislative leaders who are seeking to fix statutory mistakes which would otherwise result in the closure of several family-owned shops and farms which lawfully provide cannabis medicines to Oklahoma patients.
the day went well and we were met with several pleasant surprises.

1. Senator Roger Thompson will partner with Rep. Fetgatter to shepherd the legislative reforms through the entire legislative process.
2. Gov. Stitt will engage the leadership's team, in both houses, to find solutions via statutory and regulatory means.

  This could only happen when the family businesses and patients join together for real engagement in the process at every level.