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Patients Set To March On State Capitol

1/31/2020

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Patients who are healthy enough, are planning to attend a capitol rally, on Feb. 6th. 

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  The advocates and patients impacted by medical marijuana reforms are now scheduled to hold an event at the state capitol, next Thursday.  Leading attorney and industry consultant, Ronald Durbin  is very involved in this initiative.
  Durbin was successful in the summer of 2018, to push back against unconstitutional emergency Health Dept rules. The Attorney General ultimately advised the state to rescind those rules and issue a set which is within their constitutional authority.
  Last August, Durbin organized a march on the Health Dept. after the commissioner & Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) refused to meet with industry consultants to find a workable implementation of the new rules which became effective on Sept. 1st.  That day, the Commissioner of Health resigned. within days the OMMA director also resigned.
 Durbin issued this message;
"..​we are marching to protect 788 against unnecessary over regulation and limitation. We will be voicing our opinion about the problems created by the Legislature last year, and what bills that have been filed this session that will hurt medical marijuana patients and local businesses."


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Rep Nollen Files A 'Marijuana Patient Discrimination Act' of 2020: UPDATED

1/25/2020

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UPDATE: The author has pointed  out that the repeal is only of duplicative language. If that's so, then her bill is based only on a perceived fear that toddlers will run away from the daycares and go into licensed dispensaries and buy medicine which cost over $200 per ounce and only does cash sales.  No such restriction is put on other pharmaceutical shops.
  Deep within Rep. Jadine Nollan's bill to 'protect our babies from the shop down the street'; we see a little paragraph that contains no explanation. You're not supposed to notice it.  In fact, you're supposed to applaud any effort to repeal arcane and unenforceable statutes which no longer reflect the values of Oklahomans.
  But one university professor happened to read the language and do some checking. It's good that there are people willing to dig into the details and report on them. Clearly, none of the major media outlets have discovered the  disturbing attempts to target suffering patients, based on the treatment their physicians recommended.
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Growers Unite!

1/22/2020

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  Leading MMB Attorney, Ron Durbin is urging formation of cooperative associations for growers, processors, & dispensaries. He expressed those sentiments last night at the Oklahoma Legislative Town Hall on Marijuana Policy.
  Durbin says that these business entities are not represented at the capitol and the result is bad laws & rules, which end up costing businesses more than what an effective lobbyist would cost.
 Perhaps a statewide association is more than what could be built in a cooperative format, but county associations are certainly doable in a workable format. Dispensaries may want to also form in a similar manner, especially in the bigger cities.  A series of local developments like this would easily foster better cooperative relationships with county and city officials. Agencies tasked with implementing state policy can then call together the members of the voluntary business associations and discuss what's coming, or inquire what adjustments the industry members want the county commissioners to consider.
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Medical Cannabis Industry Continues Robust Oklahoma Growth

1/10/2020

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  The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority (OMMA) is now solidly under new management of Travis Kirkpatrick. In the fall of 2019, the entire Oklahoma Health Dept. faced yet another change in leadership when Tom Bates left to seek a different appointment from Governor Stitt. 
  SoonerPolitics was at the State Health Dept. when more than 100 cannabis patients held a protest of the intransigent silence of both Bates and his former director of the OMMA.
  But within weeks the new leadership reached out to industry advocates and legal experts seeking to make sense of the hastily-implemented new rules.
  This came at a time when all the licensed medical marijuana businesses (MMBs) were required to comply with rules they had no way of attaining compliance in.
  The new leadership of the OMMA, under the interim directorship of Travis Kirkpatrick; granted grace periods, but the monthly reporting of the OMMA began to show radical decreases in MMB licenses. Those growers, processors, & dispensaries seeking county documents (which didn't exist in most counties), were spending massive funds in legal services just to make their best showing of good faith to comply with the nuttiness at the OMMA.
  But now the new director seems to have nearly all of the MMB application backlog resolved. Only about 600 incompleted applications are in the system. 
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    Nigel heavily focuses on the medical research and drug policy topics at SoonerPolitics, from an international perspective &  a background in homeopathic herbs and agrarian culture.

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