White House anti-drug office asks Mass. for medical marijuana data

[flyingfysh]

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Source: Boston Globe

An arm of the White House’s antidrug office has asked Massachusetts and several other states where medical marijuana is legal to turn over information about registered patients, triggering a debate over privacy rights and whether state officials should cooperate with a federal administration that appears hostile to the drug.

Dale Quigley, deputy coordinator of the National Marijuana Initiative, or NMI, has asked Massachusetts health officials for data on the age, gender, and medical condition of the state’s approximately 40,000 registered medical marijuana patients. Quigley is a former police officer in Colorado with a long history of speaking out against legalization.

The NMI is part of the federal High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area initiative, a law enforcement effort directed by the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy.

In an interview, Quigley said the data are for a routine research project, in which he is looking for any correlation between how strictly states regulate medical cannabis and the rates of marijuana use among different age groups within the general public in those states.


Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/08/25/white-house-anti-drug-office-asks-massachusetts-for-medical-marijuana-data/FIiAccGpbD7az3wfUyoMbK/story.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. AS I have stated, every single non rightwinger who smokes pot as recreational use will be

arrested and put in for profit prisons.

And if you are not arrested and put in a for profit prison it wont be because Sessions didnt try, it will simply be because there are too many of you, but be sure of one thing, he will try.

Now I know this all sounds bad, insane even, but surely we can all agree that as bad as this is it is surely better than ....

ooops

cant go there


Dont you miss the days when "and stop calling me Shirley" joke would be funny here?

I find nothing funny anymore

NOTHING


well, I find THIS funny

[Kali]

15. !

[pangaia]

2. The USA is going down.....

Somehow THIS and the sheriff thing are what convinces me it is over...

It's like global warming. We're past the point of no return....

[redwitch]

3. No. Just no.

What awful people!

[Sunlei]

4. just like nazis, republicans want to use available lists to arrest people & gerrymander elections.

[Hekate]

10. Yep

[SHRED]

5. We're suppose to trust them

FUCK YOU CHEETO!

[riversedge]

6. JUST SAY NO

[tymorial]

7. Most people don't realize it but the government gets patient data all the time

Every year medical providers submit medical information about their Medicare patients to meet reporting requirements for patient quality of care. It has been going on for years. Providers that fail to meet these requirements lose reimbursement rates for their Medicare patients.

[Hekate]

13. Yes, but the point of this particular exercise is to intimidate States into complying with fascism

It will make every State that cooperates complicit in the results (arrests, for instance). It will terrorize medical-cannabis patients and doctors, and by extension their families.

Mission accomplished.

[Sunlei]

14. like police use the lists of people who had to report to immigration once a year to grab & deport

not even deport many of those those people are sitting in the Republicans new "for profit" detention camps out in some remote area far from family/friends help.

They'll wait for years for time in front of an immigration judge if they don't want to be sent out of the USA. Immigration courts are backed up a couple years now.

Same as USA localjails are packed with 'arrested' poorer Americans waiting years for a 'jury trial' if they don't want to take the 'plea deal'. 98% of arrested Americans take the plea deal because they can't afford a Lawyer or bail.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. So do patients on other insurance plans.....

But that is for widely accepted treatment, not controversial treatment which is not approved by Medicare of the funding arm of the Gov't.
Fascist governments keep lists to attack/control non-supporters. We have a right wing Gov. which has
shown ZERO concern for the rights and well being of citizens.
On a daily basis no less.

[DDySiegs]

8. From a Bay Stater - Tell the NMI to go to Hell!!

[roamer65]

9. MA needs to tell them to go fuck themselves.

[Hekate]

11. "MA and several other states"? Just Say No, and then HELL NO.

Sunsabitches.

Non Illegitimus Carborundum

[Achilleaze]

12. "Screw the whole State's Rights thingy." - republicans

"Our beloved eternal, holy, unshakeable republican value and legal principle of States Rights only applies when we say it does. Ha Ha. We've got you proles by the pussy and the nuts, and now we're really going to start squeezing. Get used to it."

- "Without an iota of respect,
Your illegitimate russian-enabled BIG GOVERNMENT KristoFascist republican PARTY. Inc. against honesty, integrity, consistency, common sense, and liberty.

[Kali]

16. this is exactly the reason I was leery of med MJ - the cards/registrations

LISTS that can be used against people. FUCKERS!

[Jimbo101]

17. Top 3 preventable causes of death (Smoking, Obesity, Alcohol)

[calimary]

18. Uh-huh. This, from the "say anything" crowd.

"In an interview, Quigley said the data are for a routine research project, in which he is looking for any correlation between how strictly states regulate medical cannabis and the rates of marijuana use among different age groups within the general public in those states."

Reminds me of every Supreme Court justice nominee when asked about Roe v. Wade. Every last one of 'em, good guys and bad guys alike, intone something solemn along the lines of "it's settled law, so..." But then, the bad guys who get in have no hesitation about taking EVERY single damn case that seeks to whittle away, attack, overturn, or weaken Roe v. Wade, ANYWAY.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Locking - this article is well over 12 hours old, which is the limit for LBN

(The comments on it show it was posted before 2:13pm 25th Aug, so it was over 22 hours old when the thread was started)

Please repost in GD. Thanks.