Madfingers
September 7th, 2007, 07:44 AM
The following is a request I submitted to the body of the ACMM and DHS/Admin. It is not covered in any up coming proposed initiative processes that I am aware of and still to many, including Senator Morrisette and others including myself unfinished business and a total determint to those trying to help others more efficiently, stay in compliance and take care of their own needs too..................
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I have sent this as my request for an agenda item for the September ACMM meeting in Sept. If only to keep this issue alive and because it is my understanding that Shannon O'Fallon is suppose to be in attendance.....
I know it is of great importance to all cardholding providers. My contention is that only by default has the mature plant been given status and it still remains undefined.
Dear Chairlady,
A request to the agenda concerning old business to be reconsidered.
Revisiting the Mature Definition
The Statute:
(3) The Department of Human Services shall define by rule when a marijuana plant is mature and when it is immature. The rule shall provide that a plant that has no flowers and that is less than 12 inches in height and less than 12 inches in diameter is a seedling or a start and is not a mature plant. [1999 c.4 §7; 2005 c.822 §2]
The OAR:
(21) “Seedling or start” means a marijuana plant that has no flowers and is less than twelve (12) inches in height and less than twelve (12) inches in diameter. A seedling or start must meet all three (3) criteria set forth above or it will be considered a mature plant.
(23) “Usable marijuana” means the dried leaves and flowers of the plant Cannabis family Moraceae, and any mixture or preparation thereof, that are appropriate for medical use. “Usable marijuana” does not include the seeds, stalks and roots of the plant.
Comment:
We need our teenagers back. Maybe the easiest way for a layman to understand this is that as in the human species even teenagers want to consider themselves mature, but they aren’t, even if they are 6’5” and 300lbs.
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A plant that is immature does not have “Usable marijuana” attributes regardless of its size. It could be very useful in helping new patients or their growers by shaving 5 or more weeks off their waiting time for their garden to produce “Usable marijuana”.
Comments made by Tim Sylvester in December of 06 and more recently from Senator
Morrisette to Alice Ivany indicate we can still change this for the better and benefit to the patient.
The DHS/OMMP still has not defined ‘mature marijuana’ only what should be considered mature. My suggestion is that we define mature as marijuana that has visible
flowers that could become usable.
Any variation from the legal minds would be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
Jim Klahr
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I have sent this as my request for an agenda item for the September ACMM meeting in Sept. If only to keep this issue alive and because it is my understanding that Shannon O'Fallon is suppose to be in attendance.....
I know it is of great importance to all cardholding providers. My contention is that only by default has the mature plant been given status and it still remains undefined.
Dear Chairlady,
A request to the agenda concerning old business to be reconsidered.
Revisiting the Mature Definition
The Statute:
(3) The Department of Human Services shall define by rule when a marijuana plant is mature and when it is immature. The rule shall provide that a plant that has no flowers and that is less than 12 inches in height and less than 12 inches in diameter is a seedling or a start and is not a mature plant. [1999 c.4 §7; 2005 c.822 §2]
The OAR:
(21) “Seedling or start” means a marijuana plant that has no flowers and is less than twelve (12) inches in height and less than twelve (12) inches in diameter. A seedling or start must meet all three (3) criteria set forth above or it will be considered a mature plant.
(23) “Usable marijuana” means the dried leaves and flowers of the plant Cannabis family Moraceae, and any mixture or preparation thereof, that are appropriate for medical use. “Usable marijuana” does not include the seeds, stalks and roots of the plant.
Comment:
We need our teenagers back. Maybe the easiest way for a layman to understand this is that as in the human species even teenagers want to consider themselves mature, but they aren’t, even if they are 6’5” and 300lbs.
.
A plant that is immature does not have “Usable marijuana” attributes regardless of its size. It could be very useful in helping new patients or their growers by shaving 5 or more weeks off their waiting time for their garden to produce “Usable marijuana”.
Comments made by Tim Sylvester in December of 06 and more recently from Senator
Morrisette to Alice Ivany indicate we can still change this for the better and benefit to the patient.
The DHS/OMMP still has not defined ‘mature marijuana’ only what should be considered mature. My suggestion is that we define mature as marijuana that has visible
flowers that could become usable.
Any variation from the legal minds would be greatly appreciated.
Respectfully,
Jim Klahr