Today we are pleased to present our readers with a special presentation by Patrick Rohde of the American Patients Rights Association that was made to the Senate Judiciary Committee and House Select Intelligence Committee last year, offering recommendations and guidelines for the future of federal medical marijuana regulations. Mr. Rohde has spent five years evaluating the medical marijuana industry and this presentation details regulatory criteria based on his conclusions. He would like to clarify that recommendations in this presentation were made in argument against regulations that provide for over regulation by municipal law enforcement including tactics like ‘drugged driving’ like Colorado State Law, Proposition D and SB1262.
“Regulations regarding ‘driving under the influence of 3 micrograms of THC or greater’ is pseudoscience and an abuse of regulatory oversight; I could have 3 micrograms of THC in my blood stream from medical marijuana that I medicated with over a month ago. I could have 3 micrograms in my blood even by simply inhaling too much second hand. As you will see in this presentation, APRA wishes to see such decisions on public health reserved for physicians and laboratories with expertise. Hopefully this will offer insight to the medical marijuana movement to follow a new path going forward. We need to get practical if we want to flourish; legitimate farmers and cultivators need to realize that can get what they want as long as the government can have their pound of flesh with the cartels”
–Patrick Rohde
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