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flyingfysh

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Sat Aug 26, 2017, 12:39 PM Aug 2017

White House anti-drug office asks Mass. for medical marijuana data [View all]

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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

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AS I have stated, every single non rightwinger who smokes pot as recreational use will be Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #1
! Kali Aug 2017 #15
The USA is going down..... pangaia Aug 2017 #2
No. Just no. redwitch Aug 2017 #3
just like nazis, republicans want to use available lists to arrest people & gerrymander elections. Sunlei Aug 2017 #4
Yep Hekate Aug 2017 #10
We're suppose to trust them SHRED Aug 2017 #5
JUST SAY NO riversedge Aug 2017 #6
Most people don't realize it but the government gets patient data all the time tymorial Aug 2017 #7
Yes, but the point of this particular exercise is to intimidate States into complying with fascism Hekate Aug 2017 #13
like police use the lists of people who had to report to immigration once a year to grab & deport Sunlei Aug 2017 #14
So do patients on other insurance plans..... dixiegrrrrl Aug 2017 #19
From a Bay Stater - Tell the NMI to go to Hell!! DDySiegs Aug 2017 #8
MA needs to tell them to go fuck themselves. roamer65 Aug 2017 #9
"MA and several other states"? Just Say No, and then HELL NO. Hekate Aug 2017 #11
"Screw the whole State's Rights thingy." - republicans Achilleaze Aug 2017 #12
this is exactly the reason I was leery of med MJ - the cards/registrations Kali Aug 2017 #16
Top 3 preventable causes of death (Smoking, Obesity, Alcohol) Jimbo101 Aug 2017 #17
Uh-huh. This, from the "say anything" crowd. calimary Aug 2017 #18
Locking - this article is well over 12 hours old, which is the limit for LBN muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #20
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