Veterans in Arizona are pushing back against the UA’s medical marijuana ban. As it stands now, the UA police department will arrest medical marijuana patients.
A petition has been started on Change.org to stop medical marijuana patient arrests, according to 12 News. Two years after medical marijuana was legalized in Arizona, the State Legislature banned its use on college campuses. Medical marijuana patients commit a felony by using their medicine on campus grounds.
Veteran Dan Schmink said, “People truly don’t understand us. They don’t understand why we don’t want pills. Why should a university, which is supposed to be the progressive center of tomorrow, say ‘No’? It doesn’t make sense to me.”
Medical marijuana patients rely on their medication to help them get through their school classes on a daily basis. Universities are required to follow state law, so changes to the state law would have to be made before medical marijuana patients can legally have and use their medicine on campus.
Arizona State University also prohibits marijuana on campus. The ASU Police Department said, “Marijuana on campus is prohibited by state law and by federal laws. Students who commit violations of the Student Code of Conduct that involve marijuana are guided to substance abuse resources. They may be subject to disciplinary actions, ranging from probation to expulsion.”
Dr. Sue Sisley visited South Carolina early this month to testify to state lawmakers about the benefits of medical marijuana. Sisley is a medical director for an Arizona medical marijuana dispensary and is currently overseeing a research study in Arizona and Maryland on the effects of marijuana as a treatment option for PTSD.
Sisley and other medical experts attended the hearing which was designed to help South Carolina lawmakers determine whether legalizing medical marijuana is the right option, according to WACH 57 News. The hearing included five-hours of testimony from medical experts. Doctors are increasingly showing support for medical marijuana as a real treatment option.
Sisley said, “I’m not pro-cannabis—I’m just pro-science. I’ve started to examine the scientific literature, and I realized that there is a sufficient amount of scientific data to support the idea of cannabis as a medicine.”
She concluded her comments by saying, “I don’t want the legislators here to think they can wait until the FDA approves cannabis as a medicine, because that could be a decade away, and in the meantime, we’ve got sick patients right here in this state who desperately need legal access to quality medicine.”
— Sarah Parfitt, azmarijuana.com
This article appears in Mar 23-29, 2017.
Interesting view on Campus use of Marijuana on Campus. I wonder are they not allowing any kind of edible on campus. With so many psychotropic mind & thought. With Prozac Zoloft even phenobarbital being widely prescribed.
I am sure while these drugs are legal on a federal level illegal use isn’t. I dont believe the UofA police or public security administration is going to check every pill bottle, lunch bag, eye dropper for Cannabis.
What I do believe is the UofA does not want a mobile meandering quasi social group of stoners on Campus. We all know the group I walked in this circle for years.
We all know there is so many delivery systems now for the consumption of Marijuana. If this is the case I blame and point to the Dispensaries for not properly instructing as well as the Physician associated with the dispensary. This is a huge failure on dispensaries owners and the support staff. I have family members that have went to and graduated UofA. While inject themselves as medically required clandestinely dont need a group. And was not a social function
The law passed that allowed Medical marijuana was for MEDICAL. While vocal and Rastafarian New Age have been instrumental. The Bob Marley drum beating, smoke lodge, birkenstock, tye dye, dreadlock, theorist wont be allowed on campus as alternative thinking with smoking finding nirvana.
” Dr. Sisley is a medical director for an Arizona medical marijuana dispensary”
Could you please list the Dispensary as this one should be and I know. It will be on the forefront in counseling on the administration of marijuana. It is a relief to know that having such a well profile and capable administrator like Dr.Sisley. We will soon see use prescribes frequency and need on the package ?
Don’t hide under medical protections and just say I can use as needed whenever wherever however I chose because I say I need. and here is my badge of protection the Medical Marijuana Card.
It dont and wont work that way.
Would be nice to be able to sign the petition. All it says is that it is at change.org? :-O
For all their pretenses about being places of higher learning most colleges and universities still get substantial amounts of money from the federal government and as long as marijuana use is against federal law it will be illegal to use it on campus.
As for the claim to be places of learning, the only thing getting “higher” is tuitions. They are businesses that front for the largest organized slave institution known — the NCAA — and many graduates are forced into indentured servitude to pay back the student loans that were so easily made available.
I wonder how many kids paying upwards to $50,000.00. Going into hock up to 20 years of their life paying it back. Even those GI Bills and scholarships have semester goals that need to be maintained. Once lost gone for good they dont reissue. Do you really need another distraction on campus no alcohol on campus or games.