Shawnee Targets Sick & Dying With Stiff New Laws On Cannabis Medicines

  The Drug Policy Reform Network of Oklahoma issued this press release regarding one central Oklahoma city's effort to put several barriers between the very frail, and the only medicine they still hope can restore their health and extend their days.
  Cancer patients, Severely Arthritic, Epileptics, Glaucoma sufferers, and veterans with severely debilitating Post Traumatic Stress.  Sadly, those most immediately impacted by this heavy govt. oppression will not be able to advocate for themselves. They're too sick.
  All these heavily challenged people will either have to flee the city or further adjust their lives to a very heavy list of costs and prohibitions on the lifesaving medical treatments that their physicians have already approved and directed.
  Stage Four Cancer survivor, Ray Jennings, serves on the state health dept. board of medical marijuana safety.  He tells a devastating personal account of losing 90 lbs. while enduring an aggressive chemotherapy regimen. He says he was dying from such severe nausea, such that his stomach would tolerate no nourishment. It was only when his family convinced him to seek relief with cannabis meds that he was able to turn the tide and regain his strength. His cancer shrank within a month and his weight slowly restored.  He was bedridden for months, But Shawnee would demand that he come to city hall and pay up before he could seek an approval to follow a doctor's order.

Ray & Becki Jennings celebrate new hope and added years. They devote much of their lives to medical reforms and restoring cannabis medicines to the medical community.

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   On the face of it, this draft proposal of the Shawnee City government is absolutely heartless and void of compassion for the verified frail among us.  If they harbor secret suspicions on the physicians' diagnosis, then  it would follow that additional restrictions should be put upon the medical community, rather than punishing 100% of the patients who are facing death and probably a very painful path of dying.
  Here is the press release from the Drug Policy Reform Network, a think tank researching and advocating sound public policy on drugs and drug treatments.

Ray Jennings, a Broken Arrow Businessman and State Health Dept. Safety Board member, addresses the legislative joint study group.

Shawnee
​City Commission:

Mayor Richard Finley
Term: 2016 - 2020

Ward 1 Commissioner
Ed Bolt
Term: 2018 - 2022
Ward 2 Commissioner
Ron Gillham
Term: 2016 - 2020
Ward 3 Commissioner
James Harrod
Term: 2016 - 2020

​TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT!! If you are from Shawnee you need to be at this meeting! 6:pm

Please show up by 6:pm Monday Sept 17th!! Here is the ordinance they want to pass at city council.
​Section 8-517 Marijuana Growing Facilities for Personal Medical Use; Security.

1. All owners of Marijuana Growing Facilities for Personal Medical Use are required to obtain a permit from the City Clerk.
2. The City Council will establish by resolution a fee to obtain the Marijuana Growing Facilities for Personal Medical Use Permit. The fee shall be used to offset municipal expenses covering costs related to licensing, inspection, administration and enforcement of Marijuana Growing Facilities for Personal Medical Use.
3. All Marijuana Growing Facilities for Personal Medical Use shall be subject to security provisions as stated herein prior to the granting of a permit. Failing to comply with security provisions as stated herein will result in revocation of the permit.
4. Any access or entry point to residential facilities used for marijuana cultivation for personal medical use must be secured by lock and key or equivalent, at all times except when the residential facility is actively being supervised in person by the permit holder.
5. Growing marijuana for personal medical use shall be limited to the interior of a single private residence.
6. Growing marijuana shall not be visible from the public right of way.
7. The growing area, including any lighting, plumbing or electrical components used, shall comply with applicable building and fire codes. The growing area must be properly ventilated so as not to create humidity, mold or other related problems. Lighting shall not exceed 1000 watts per light. The use of gas products (C02, butane, etc.) or C02 and ozone generators in the growing area is prohibited.
8. Growing marijuana shall not be conducted in a manner that constitutes a public nuisance. A public nuisance may be deemed to exist if growing marijuana produces light, glare, heat, noise, odor or vibration that is detrimental to public health, safety or welfare or interferes with the reasonable enjoyment of life and property.
9. The primary use of the residential property in which marijuana is grown shall remain at all times a residence, with legal and functioning cooking, eating, sleeping and sanitation/bathing facilities with proper ingress and egress. No room shall be used for growing marijuana where such cultivation will impair or prevent the primary uses of cooking, eating, sleeping or sanitation/bathing.
10. Growing Marijuana for personal use without first obtaining a license from the State of Oklahoma and a permit from the City Clerk is punishable by a fine of $200.00 per day while the violation exists.

Section 8-518 Smell or Noxious Odor. The smell or noxious odor emitted from smoking or consumption of marijuana by a person possessing a valid state issued medical marijuana license shall be treated as a public nuisance

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