KY 4 CANNABIS !!

 

We are grassroots movement dedicated to promoting honest education about cannabis (hemp, marijuana) and the full repeal of cannabis prohibition. Our main goal is to provide evidence based information to the citizens of America about the benefits of this untapped, renewable, sustainable and once vital natural resource so they can make informed decisions on this complex issue.

We the people demand that cannabis (hemp, marijuana, THC and other cannabis extracts) be exempted from the DEA’s Controlled Substances Act (like alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and other “drugs”) and ALL local, state and federal criminal penalties for the cultivation, processing, transportation, distribution, sales, trade, sharing, possession, consumption and use of cannabis for industrial, medicinal, nutritional, spiritual and recreational purposes be repealed.

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To repeal all statutes, ordinances, codes and acts that prohibit cannabis
To exempt cannabis, THC and other cannabis extracts from the DEA’s Controlled Substances Act
To educate our communities on the true history and facts about cannabis
To promote the lawful and responsible use of cannabis
To promote industrial hemp farming and technologies
To promote medical and scientific research
To promote the release of all individuals jailed or otherwise imprisoned for non-violent, cannabis related offenses
To end the arrests, fines and imprisonment of responsible adult users of cannabis
To promote better, stronger and safer communities
And to promote Personal Freedom!

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To promote the legalization (over-taxation, over-regulation) of cannabis in any form

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Starting the Cannabis Argument Where It Starts!

We are grassroots movement dedicated to promoting honest education about cannabis (hemp, marijuana) and the full repeal of cannabis prohibition. Our main goal is to provide evidence based information to the citizens of America about the benefits of this untapped, renewable, sustainable and once vital natural resource so they can make informed decisions on this complex issue.

We the people demand that cannabis (hemp, marijuana, THC and other cannabis extracts) be exempted from the DEA’s Controlled Substances Act (like alcohol, nicotine, caffeine and other “drugs”) and ALL local, state and federal criminal penalties for the cultivation, processing, transportation, distribution, sales, trade, sharing, possession, consumption and use of cannabis for industrial, medicinal, nutritional, spiritual and recreational purposes be repealed.

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Ron Wyden’s hemp amendment fails

Ron Wyden’s hemp amendment fails

Senator Ron Wyden
This is disappointing…

 

Hemp: Sen. Ron Wyden’s effort to include a provision in the farm bill to formally classify hemp as a legitimate crop failed Thursday as the Senate finished work on the bill without considering his amendment.

The official reason was that the “hemp amendment” was not germane because it edged into the Controlled Substances Act. Wyden’s amendment would have excluded industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana. He hoped to attach it to the farm bill.

Silvia Gregory (left) and Jim Gregory package Hemburgers – veggie burgers made with hemp. An amendment by Sen. Ron Wyden to make it easier for farmers to grow industrial hemp failed in the Senate.

Posted by David Hadland at 11:08 AM

45 incumbent lawmakers face no opponents this year

 

 

By ROGER ALFORD — Associated Press

n the farm communities of western Kentucky, Republican state Rep. Dwight Butler has never lost an election, so it’s little wonder no one chose to run against him this year.

Challenging Butler, a respected auctioneer and realtor from Harned who has served in the Legislature since 1995, was an exercise in futility for the only two candidates ever to run against him.

But 44 other incumbent lawmakers, including some newbies to Frankfort, also are running unopposed in both the spring primary and fall general elections, raising questions about whether potentially strong candidates want no part of the chaos that is Frankfort politics.

“Maybe people have just given up,” said University of Louisville political scientist Laurie Rhodebeck. “Maybe there’s a sense that something is just broken about the state Legislature and who would want to participate in a body that doesn’t seem to want to get anything done.”

Out of 119 legislative seats up for election this year, only 36 will be on primary election ballots – 28 House seats and eight Senate seats. In all, 40 state representatives and five senators are running unopposed.

That’s not unusual in Kentucky. In some election years, the number of incumbent lawmakers without challengers is even higher. The reasons are varied, including the necessity for lawmakers living in distant parts of the state having to be away from home for about three months a year while the Legislature is in session.

“It is a daunting task to run for a legislative seat – raising six-figure sums to challenge an incumbent candidate or even to run for an open seat,” said Democratic strategist Dale Emmons. “To do that, a person has to give up a lot of personal time and time away from their vocation just to make the race. And once you’re elected, you continue to have to do that. Seldom does that legislative pay of $30,000 or so make up for that.”

The contentious image of the Legislature could also be a deterrent. Rarely has that image been so fully displayed as it was this year when a Democratic-controlled House and a Republican-led Senate sparred over political redistricting and budget issues.

Redistricting occurs every 10 years to account for population changes found in the U.S. Census count. The latest count found that the state’s overall population grew from 4 million to 4.3 million between 2000 and 2010, and that the overall population had shifted from rural to urban areas. That forced lawmakers to redraw legislative maps so that each district had nearly the same number of people.

The changes produced some oddly shaped legislative districts. One House district stretched from the Tennessee line in McCreary County, zigzagged narrowly through Laurel County, then encompassed all of Jackson County. One Senate district stretched more than 130 miles from Barbourville to Morehead.

Unhappy with the outcome, some lawmakers filed a court challenge that resulted in the legislative redistricting plan being tossed out as unconstitutional.

The redistricting battle was followed by an equally contentious effort to draft a $4.5 billion transportation budget and road construction plan. An impasse resulted in this year’s legislative session ending without an agreement, forcing Gov. Steve Beshear to call lawmakers back into special session to finish the work.

Rhodebeck said the well-publicized political bickering painted “a rather unflattering picture of the Legislature.”

Even so, enough candidates stepped forward for the May 22 primary to create races in 30 House districts and eight Senate districts.

The retirements of Sens. Vernie McGaha, Tim Shaughnessy, Jack Westwood and Ken Winters created open seats that have generated widespread interest. McGaha, Westwood and Winters are fiscally and socially conservative Republicans from districts that prefer that political philosophy. Shaughnessy is a liberal Democrat from a district that has re-elected him repeatedly since he first took office in 1989.

Republicans are expected to maintain their 22-15 majority over Democrats in the Senate after this year’s elections. That majority is 23-15 if a lone independent who caucuses with the GOP is counted.

In the House, GOP leaders herald their chances of winning majority control this fall for the first time in more than 80 years. Democrats now hold a 59-41 majority.

Five Republicans aren’t seeking re-election, creating open seats in districts that traditionally elect GOP candidates. Republican Floor Leader Jeff Hoover believes Republicans will hold those seats, and that they will have a shot at winning four open Democratic seats in districts that have been trending Republican.

GOP Chairman Steve Robertson said having Democratic President Barack Obama at the top of the ballot this fall could provide a boost to all GOP candidates in Kentucky in the Nov. 6 general election in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans 1.6 million to 1.1 million.

Public opinion polls show Obama remains widely unpopular among Kentuckians who voted against him in the 2008 primary and general elections. And Robertson believes that if Democrats cross over on the presidential race this fall, they’ll be more likely to cross over on legislative races, too.

Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/04/29/2168924/45-incumbent-lawmakers-face-no.html#storylink=rss#storylink=cpy

Gov. Beshear angry over unfinished RX bill…

Kentucky governor angry he has to call lawmakers back to fund road work, pass other bill

In addition to not funding the road work, the Legislature didn’t finish work on a prescription bill. (Associated Press: JOHN FLAVELL

By ROGER ALFORD,
The Associated Press
4/13/2012

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A furious Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear sharply criticized his chief Republican adversary Friday for “a ridiculous political maneuver” that forced him to call a special legislative session to get two important bills passed.

The governor called for the special session to begin Monday so lawmakers can finish work on the two pieces of legislation.

Beshear told reporters he is “disgusted and angry” that lawmakers ended their 2012 session late Thursday night without passing a transportation budget and a prescription drug abuse bill aimed at curbing overdose deaths in the state. The second-term governor blamed Senate President David Williams, calling him “the fly in the ointment.”

“Sen. Williams is so wrapped up in winning what he sees as a political game here in Frankfort that he’s willing to turn his back on the needs of our people,” Beshear said. “In essence, he forgets why he’s here. Yesterday, our Senate president not only refused to pass routine bills to keep the state operational, but also torpedoed essential legislation designed to protect the health and safety of our citizens.”

Williams pointed his finger at Beshear earlier Friday, blaming him for a political stalemate that brought the legislative session to the frustrating conclusion.

“I think the governor played politics with the thing,” Williams said.

Kentucky’s divided Legislature has a history of ending annual its sessions without budget agreements. The state’s last three budgets were adopted in special sessions called after lawmakers failed to reach accords on spending plans. And Beshear and Williams have been longtime rivals, facing off just last year in a gubernatorial race that Beshear won.

Williams had insisted Thursday that the nearly 400-page state road construction plan should be signed before the Senate would pass the accompanying transportation budget that would have provided funding for the projects.

“That’s the process that we use here,” Williams said, “to make sure the road plan is enacted and signed before it’s funded.”

Beshear said during a press conference Friday morning that Williams had inserted $288 million worth of construction projects for his rural district into the road plan. Beshear charged that Williams feared those projects would be vetoed.

The Democratic-controlled House and Republican-led Senate had passed the two-part, $10 billion road plan on the final day of this year’s legislative session. One part lists $4.5 billion worth roads and bridges to be built across the state over the next two years. The other lists more long-term projects that would be on the drawing board for the following four years.

The bill includes funding for the state’s single largest project: $2.6 billion for two bridges across the Ohio River in Louisville. It also includes $200 million to widen the heavily traveled Interstate 65, where numerous fatal traffic crashes have occurred in recent years. A crash on a rural stretch of the highway near Munfordville in 2010 killed 11 people, 10 of them members of a Mennonite family.

But funding for those projects, Beshear said, was in the transportation budget that didn’t get passed.

Beshear said he would limit the agenda for the special session to only those two items so that lawmakers can finish their work as soon as possible. Each day of a special session costs more than $60,000. Beshear said he believes lawmakers can finish the work in five days, which would put the total cost of the special session at more than $300,000.CONTINUE READING…

Jack Conway and his view on why we shouldn’t legalize HEMP!

Uploaded by Derek5141 on Sep 6, 2010

Jack embarrasses himself July 22 at the Kentucky Farm Bureau by using the discredited “gateway” theory to justify the continued senseless prohibition on the farming of industrial hemp, which is allowed in just about every other industrialized nation in the world except the United States. If Jack truly cared about Kentucky farmers as much as he claims to, he would be in favor of allowing them to grow a valuable cash crop that we currently have to import from all around the world, including from major producing countries such as Canada, China, and France. For more information on the many uses of industrial hemp, see here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp


http://www.torontohemp.com/hempuses.htm

Jack’s reefer madness doesn’t end there however. Jack doesn’t even think sick and disabled people such as cancer and AIDS patients and returning veterans suffering from their injuries should be allowed to relieve their symptoms through the use of marijuana under the care of a doctor (

). Jack’s position is that if these people can’t relieve their suffering effectively through the use of expensive and often addictive prescription drugs that typically have very dangerous side effects, then that’s just too bad. Jack feels that these people should go to jail for simply trying to treat their medical conditions and relieve their suffering in the most effective way possible.
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Senator Ken Winters’ Frankfort Report

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 28, 2012

Senator Ken Winters’ Frankfort Report

FRANKFORT – After a pause for President’s Day, the Legislature moved into the second half of the 2012 General Assembly Session. I had visits from groups representing adult day health care providers and developmental disabilities. Many Boy Scout troops came to Frankfort for the annual Boy Scout Day at the Capitol. It was a pleasure to see these civic-minded boys and young men and their dedicated troop leaders and parents.

Of the bills we focused on this week, two were of particularly high profile. Senate Bill 1 would restrict the legislature to appropriating no more than 6 percent of General Fund revenues to bonded indebtedness. This is a level generally accepted as the standard by bond rating agencies, as well as a threshold the legislature has historically attempted to operate within. As long as I have been a member, the Senate has always passed a budget with less debt than either the Governor’s or the House’s proposals. We cannot continue paying off the Visa with the MasterCard.  I voted for the bill because setting the limit in statute will provide an additional safeguard against high debt levels in the future, as well as make it easier to prioritize critical programs and services when determining budget allocations.

The measure excludes debt for universities, the Kentucky Housing Authority, and other agencies using funds outside the General Fund, including the stand-alone Road Fund. It also contains a provision allowing the General Assembly to exceed the cap by a majority vote if the Governor declares a state of emergency that would require additional funds. Senate Bill 1 will now go to the House for their consideration.

Much has been reported about Senate Bill 151, a bill that would have placed on the November ballot for voter ratification a constitutional amendment authorizing casino gambling in Kentucky. However, the bill also included language that would constitutionally protect one industry over others. Many felt troubled by the vague language of where the revenue would go. And others were simply opposed because they felt that basing the state budget on the ability of their own citizens to be on the losing side of a slot machine or blackjack table is wrong and bad public policy. The bill was defeated 21-16.

Small group sessions continue studying the budget. We are waiting for the House to take action on the budget as they are constitutionally required to do first. But their apparent delay has not stopped the Senate from looking closely at what the Administration is requesting.

Even though there are less than 30 working days left in this legislative session, there is still plenty of time to get involved and have your voice heard on the issues that matter to you.  I encourage you to contact me with your thoughts and concerns.

To learn more about the Kentucky General Assembly and the work of the 2012 Regular Session, visit our home page, www.lrc.ky.gov.  You can also call 1-800-633-9650 for a taped message containing information on legislative committee meetings.  To check the status of a bill, you may call the toll-free Bill Status Line at 1-866-840-2835.  To leave a message for me, or any legislator, call the General Assembly’s toll-free Message Line at 1-800-372-7181.

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Note: Senator Ken Winters (R-Murray) is the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee.  He also serves on the Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor Committee, the Agriculture Committee, and the Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee.  Sen Winters is also a member if the Budget Review Subcommittee on Education and the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee.  He represents the 1^st Senate District which includes Calloway, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Lyon, and Trigg counties.  For a high-resolution .jpeg of Senator Winters, please log onto www.lrc. ky.gov/pubinfo/ephoto.htm.