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"A Dog Told Us It Was Marijuana", But D.A. Decides To Defer To Feds

3/31/2019

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Well, here we go with another semi trailer load of interstate commodity transport being detained in Oklahoma.
This time it was a highway weigh station in Sequoyah County, not far from Arkansas. The first headlines came out of Fort Smith Arkansas, which declared it a big marijuana interdiction.
The Oklahoma Corporation Commission oversees the weigh stations. They seem to have had probable cause, according to the narrative of the officers. The paperwork seemed odd and non-compliant. Then a drug dog came in and acted like it recognized that cannabis aroma. In times past, that would have been cause for detaining at least the suspected contraband.
But this time there was an exercise of prudence, which we didn't see in Pawhuska, Ok; last January.
Cherokee County D.A., Jack Thorp demonstrated that discretion is the better part of valor. Realizing that interference of interstate transport of legal farm commodities may trigger a federal lawsuit against the State of Oklahoma, he deferred the matter to the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration and sent the truck driver on his way with his payload (minus some samples which were secured and will be presented to the DEA.

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Cannabis Patients Gave The State $1.2 Million, in February  Taxes

3/29/2019

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  Well,  it seems the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana reforms are here to stay. We're on course to more than double the projections of the Oklahoma Dept of Health in the number of licensees for the first year.  Tax collections are now already over $1 million per month, according to Oklahoma Tax Commission reports.
   Despite the prudish rejection of the 'big pharma' sycophants in the medical society and the bigoted disparagements of the prosecution industry; most every neighborhood in the state now has legal medical patients getting improved health and a more tolerable lifestyle, with safe use of cannabis medicines.
  The 57th Oklahoma legislature has to be watching this development with some sense of astonishment. While the state's tax collections are booming, the sociological doomsday predictions are AWOL. 
  We see more bitterness among the entrenched medical society than celebration for the patients who finally got off opiates and found a safer & more effective pain relief.
  We see more pharmacological skepticism about chemotherapy success with the anti-nausea treatment of cannabis, than hope for survival. 
  We see more fear from the prosecutors than relief, that PTSD sufferers have found calmness from their panic attacks and flashbacks.
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Medical Marijuana Shatters 1-year Projections 5 months Early

3/21/2019

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 At current rate, the OMMA will grant 191,000 licenses in the first year of the program. More than double the original projection of 80,000. 
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 On August 8th of 2018, the top officials of the Oklahoma Health Dept. told the legislature that they expected 80,000 total applications in the first year of Medical Marijuana. They further elaborated that 2000 of them would be for commercial businesses (MMBs).  That was then. This is now. ​
​ The projections were made by dept. analyst, Buffy Heater, in the context of agency funding, and if fees would cover the cost of the function. Here's the video of that event.
   Since February 1st there has been a huge surge in applications granted. In fact; the OMMA staff have had to shut down their call center numerous times to divert that staff to the processing of a mountain of applications. The agency is mandated to act on every applications within 14 days of receipt. 
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Laureate Cannabis Conference Reveals New Insights, Biases

3/3/2019

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The University of Tulsa and Laureate Institute for Brain Research teamed up with the Warren Foundation to provide Oklahoma with a world-class scientific conference on brain research.
  On January 17th,  Tulsa Oklahoma was the host city to one of the nation's premier research conferences on cannabis medicine research.
  The Warren Foundation sponsored the event as a contribution to the state of Oklahoma and for the furtherance of medical discovery.
  The event had two key presenters who shared their latest data from studies so recent that the full reports have not yet been published.
   Their clear results already dispel some long held myths about the impact of the medicines on neurological process and lifestyle tendencies.
   Dr. Gerard Clancy, president of the University of Tulsa was both a host and speaker. His campus fine arts auditorium was the venue for the day-long conference.
  Laureate Institute for Brain Research is a Tulsa based research facility which takes a lead in bringing clinical studies to the people of Oklahoma, so we can be a part of testing new treatments for neurological and behavioral innovations.
  The conference was published to Youtube by LIBR, and their notes are as follows...

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