It was just a mistake!
"Privacy concerns raised on Mass. medical marijuana e-mails" by Kay Lazar, Globe Staff January 17, 2015
The subject line left little doubt about the contents of the e-mail sent by the Massachusetts health department. “Confirmation of Patient Certification in the Medical Use of Marijuana Online System,” it stated.
More than 6,800 patients received the e-mails over the past three months telling them they had been approved for the state’s medical marijuana program. The e-mails contained detailed personal information — a practice specialists say constituted a clear violation of privacy standards.
Now, after inquiries from the Globe, the state’s health department has begun altering its e-mails, stripping references to the medical marijuana program from the subject line and removing patients’ full names and unique program registration numbers from the body of the message.
Patient advocates expressed dismay over the original e-mails, and data security specialists said they were surprised by the state’s handling of such sensitive information.
Not me! They did it on purpose to out all you sick pot smokers so you would be stigmatized.
Amid instances of identity theft and breaches of corporate computer systems, governments and private companies have moved to protect personal information in layers of encryption and other security measures.
As they are collecting all your data and building a profile while they monitor you.
Did I mention that the largest hacking collective in the world is the U.S. government?
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The health department’s e-mail slip-up is the latest misstep in the agency’s quest to roll out the medical marijuana program.
The state never wanted it in the first place, they have been f***ing things up at every turn, and the delays and affronts just keep on coming.
And here is the flip side: if all this is 100% balls accurate truth, then WHY TRUST THESE TOTAL INCOMPETENTS with ANYTHING??!! I mean, we are always hearing how we need government to look after us, protect us, and care for us when they are DOING NOTHING OF THE SORT! It's all a $ELF-$ERVING OPERATION to GRAB LOOT and apply control!
Honestly, I'm sick of the excuses and the apologetic mouthpieces that bring them to me.
Questions have plagued the department for the past year about the review of companies hoping to win dispensary licenses, hampering the opening of facilities.
David Szabo, a Boston lawyer with Locke Lord Edwards, who specializes in health care law, privacy, and data protection issues, said the health department’s original e-mail notification system appeared to violate a 2008 executive order by former governor Deval Patrick.
Looks CRIMINAL to me. Of course, no one will be held accountable in this $hitty stain of a government.
“They are supposed to protect the privacy of medical information,” Szabo said.
I told you why they "ooopsed!"
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A recipient of the marijuana program’s earlier e-mails — or anyone who happened to walk by the recipient’s computer screen — would know instantly the subject. Once opened, the e-mails revealed a patient’s full name, e-mail address, and state-assigned program ID number, much of what is needed to make it past the first security level in gaining access to the state’s database, which contains sensitive patient information.
The health department’s revised e-mails still show that they were sent from the “MedicalMarijuana” program, but that is in the process of being changed to a more generic account “to meet best practices,” according to a statement from the agency.
Tim Buckley, communications director for Governor Charlie Baker, said in an e-mailed statement that the administration “is reviewing the medical marijuana program from top to bottom, including concerns regarding patient privacy.”
He declined to comment further.
We will hear from him later.
Before patients can get medical marijuana, they must....
How about getting the goddamn clinics open first?
Talk about putting the cart before the horse.
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Maybe you would like to sit back a scroll a joint to see my evolving attitude on this issue.
Baker no better:
"Baker staunch in opposition to legalizing marijuana; But governor still sees value in review by state Senate" by David Scharfenberg, Globe Staff January 23, 2015
With marijuana legalization advocates considering a ballot measure campaign in Massachusetts in 2016, Governor Charlie Baker said Thursday that he is “going to always be opposed to legalizing” recreational use of the drug.
Really?
"Vermont could reap hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue if it were to legalize marijuana, but only if other nearby states don’t also jump on the bandwagon, according to a study released Friday. The study comes as states across the country increasingly explore the potential budget boost from taxing an underground industry, even while the nascent legal pot business in Colorado and Washington experiences some growing pains. In Vermont, the Rand Corp. found that revenues from marijuana consumers could, in theory, generate between $20 million and $75 million a year for the state."
Money junkies all! It's a beautiful thing to $ee, and don't we have a $765 million budget hole in this age of accelerated economic growth and recovery?
Maybe Charlie needs a hit.
Baker, though, did express some interest in tracking experiments with legalization in other parts of the country.
“I think the big issue is the real-life, real-world experience of Colorado,” he said.
I'll get to that in a moment, and according to my pre$cription-pharmaceutical-pu$hing, chemical-company-supporting propaganda pre$$, it's not going well.
Baker, a Republican, also praised Democratic Senate President Stanley Rosenberg’s decision to create a special Senate committee that will examine the issues surrounding legalization of the drug.
The committee, to be chaired by Senator Jason Lewis of Winchester, will also look at the troubled implementation of Massachusetts’ existing medical marijuana law.
Rosenberg has not taken a position on legalization. But his spokesman, Pete Wilson, said the Senate president believes “more information is better,” especially with a possible ballot measure looming.
Well, Stan has had cancer so I'll bet he took a few puffs. Laws are only for those they rule, doncha know? The only time they are publicized is after that member of the political cla$$ has become an obstacle or liability.
“Rather than be reactive, we’re trying to be proactive,” said Wilson.
Legalizing a drug that is still illegal under federal law creates a host of issues.
I think states should disobey the federal government per the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution.
For one, banks have been unwilling to touch money linked to marijuana.
That would be a first.
And in Colorado, the all-cash industry has raised concerns about crime and corruption.
Yeah, good thing that $tuff doesn't exist in the banking indu$try or war-contracting and such, but, yup, gotta pick through the pot people with a fine-toothed comb.
Governor John Hickenlooper of Colorado is pushing for a state-chartered marijuana credit union to alleviate some of the worries.
I hear taking a hit of grass.... never mind.
National marijuana advocates view Massachusetts as a prime opportunity for expanding on the collection of four states — Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington — where voters have legalized possession of limited amounts of the drug for recreational use.
I will be voting NO next time. Take your stinky $hit outta here!
Proponents have zeroed in on the 2016 ballot because a presidential-year election generally draws a younger, more diverse electorate more inclined to liberalize marijuana laws.
Baker has consistently voiced his opposition to legalization, saying during the gubernatorial campaign that he would “vigorously” oppose it.
Me, too!
He has raised concerns, among other things, about marijuana’s impact on young people.
Yeah, what about the children? Isn't robbing them of their futures and sending them off to wars based on lies enough?
I mean, really, wave the kids at us.
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Oh, no thanks. I'm done.
"It’s a mess out there, and a growing one. If they fail, it will say something very sad: If the suffering of a tiny baby with fine black hair doesn’t unite leaders, nothing ever will."
Looks like Chuck has a harder drug problem on his hands.
"Federal judge weighs marijuana’s classification" Associated Press January 13, 2015
SACRAMENTO — A federal judge in California is weighing the constitutionality of a 45-year-old act that classifies marijuana as a dangerous drug along with LSD, cocaine, and heroin.
US District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller in Sacramento held a five-day fact-finding hearing on the classification question late last year, and final arguments are scheduled for next month. Her ruling is expected later this year.
The case marks the first time in decades that a judge has agreed to consider marijuana’s designation as a Schedule 1 drug under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act. Under the act, Schedule 1 drugs have no medicinal purpose, are unsafe even under medical supervision, and contain a high potential for abuse.
Mueller’s decision to hold the hearing came in response to a pretrial defense motion in a federal case against alleged marijuana growers. Prosecutors unsuccessfully opposed the fact-finding effort.
A ruling against the cannabis law would apply only to the defendants in the case and would probably be appealed. If the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals determined the law unconstitutional, all the Western states would be affected.
Attorneys for the defendants contend the government enforces the law unevenly, allowing distribution of cannabis in states where it is legal and cracking down elsewhere.
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Nah, can't do that:
"Increase in explosions of home labs is blamed on Colo. marijuana law" by Jack Healy, New York Times January 18, 2015
DENVER — When Colorado legalized marijuana two years ago, one problem was not fully anticipated: exploding houses.
But that is exactly what firefighters, courts, and lawmakers across the state are now confronting.
Yup, legalize marijuana and your house may blow up.
Good Christ, what are the propagandists that write for the paper smoking?
Amateur marijuana alchemists are turning their kitchens and basements into “Breaking Bad”-style laboratories, using flammable chemicals to extract potent drops of a marijuana concentrate commonly called hash oil and sometimes accidentally blowing up their homes and lighting themselves on fire.
All for a little better high? The potheads who never accomplish anything and are hardly motivated?
Then it is an organized crime ring that is being run by drug-smuggling government intelligence agencies. No normal pot-smoker does these things. This is more psyop prop, and ridiculous at that.
Look, the ma$$ media is indeed a staged and scripted Hollywood production. We have seen that ad nauseam over the past year or two. With all due respect to the propaganda pre$$, life is not a movie or a f***ing TV series!!!!!! Far from it!!
The trend is not limited to Colorado — officials from Florida to Illinois to California have reported similar problems — but the blasts are creating a special headache for lawmakers and courts here, the state at the center of legal marijuana.
Aaaaaw, the poor AmeriKan tyranny, awwwww.
Even as cities try to clamp down on homemade hash oil and lawmakers consider outlawing it, some enthusiasts argue for their right to make it and defense lawyers say the practice can no longer be considered a crime under the 2012 constitutional amendment that made marijuana legal to grow, process, sell, and smoke.
“This is uncharted territory,” said state Representative Mike Foote, a Democrat from northern Colorado who is grappling with how to address the problem of hash-oil explosions. “These things come up for the first time, and no one’s dealt with them before.”
I'm just going to say no, thanks.
Over the past year, a hash-oil explosion in a motel in Grand Junction sent two people to a hospital. In Colorado Springs, an explosion in a third-floor apartment shook the neighborhood and sprayed glass across a parking lot. And in an accident in Denver, neighbors reported a “ball of fire” that left three people hospitalized.
Did the building free-fall into its own footprint?
The explosions occur as people pump butane fuel through a tube packed with raw marijuana plants to draw out the psychoactive ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, producing a golden, highly potent concentrate that people sometimes call honey oil, earwax, or shatter. The process can fill a room with volatile butane vapors that can be ignited by an errant spark.
“They get enough vapors inside the building and it goes off, and it’ll bulge out the walls,” said Chuck Mathis, the fire marshal in Grand Junction, where the Fire Department responded to four explosions last year. “They always have a different story: ‘Nothing happened’ or ‘I was cooking food, and all of a sudden there was an explosion.’ They always try to blame it on something else.”
Little drug addicts acting just like money junkies and Zionists.
There were 32 such blasts across Colorado in 2014, up from 12 a year earlier, according to the Rocky Mountain High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area, which coordinates federal and state drug enforcement efforts.
No one has been killed, but the fires have wrecked homes and injured dozens of people.
All this smoke and no one killed?
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So, have the prices come down yet?
Also see: Meth House Cleanup Makes Me Mad
Yeah, it will turn you to liquid when you $ee who is benefiting.
Related:
"The body of a man was found on the platform of the Uphams Corner commuter rail station Sunday afternoon, Transit police said in a statement. Transit police detectives and Boston EMS found items near the body that suggested a probable overdose, the statement said. The name and age of the victim were not released. Transit police detectives and the Suffolk district attorney’s office are still investigating, but foul play is not suspected, the statement said."
"Police in Orange said a man allegedly knocking on residents’ doors to see if anyone was home before breaking in made a critical mistake. One the houses Jeffrey Royer allegedly approached belonged to an Erving police officer, who was home, and saw that Royer was carrying burglary tools. Orange police Sergeant James Sullivan told The Recorder that the officer sent the man on his way, but noted his description and the vehicle he was driving. The officer called Orange police, who pulled the car over, and in the meantime learned of a second house that had been approached. Royer was charged with attempted breaking and entering, attempted larceny over $250, and heroin possession."
But it's the potheads that bring the crime (proven false by actual data, too).
"A Worcester woman was arrested on her sixth drunken-driving offense just after midnight Sunday, State Police said. Lisa Cook, 48, allegedly was speeding on Route 9 in Worcester when she was stopped, State Police said. Cook failed a field sobriety test and was arrested, State Police said. She was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol as a sixth offense, and reckless operation of a motor vehicle, and was held on $20,000 cash bail, State Police said."
Is that any better than the others -- despite the legal approval? Lucky she didn't kill anyone.
UPDATE:
"A man and woman wanted in Iowa have been arrested by Rhode Island officers responding to a domestic dispute, police said. At about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, officers found 31-year-old Sheigh Thomas hiding in an apartment bedroom closet. She told them she had argued with her boyfriend, who also lived there, police said. Later, officers found 24-year-old Scott Howard, and subsequently learned that Thomas is wanted on an Iowa parole violation from drunken driving and child endangerment charges. Howard is wanted for escaping from an Iowa work release detail last July while serving a 10-year sentence for theft. Police said Howard also has outstanding Rhode Island warrants on charges including shoplifting and marijuana possession."
NDU:
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