This is the new/old way that I am going to keep connected with you at FaceBook, MySpace, Hi5, LinkedIn,  and all the other social networks my blog is connected to.
I am giving up the likes, the comments, and the diatribal crap that is FaceBook.  I am offering you more than 420 keystrokes.

WELCOME TO:

Graphics is just one of the features that I will be using to highlight the messages.

Links are another, here’s one from today that you’ll find interesting and infomative:
You, Me, Us, Them! When will the infighting end.
You, Me, Us, Them!  Remember when we were all friends
You, Me, Us, Them. It’s cannabis legalization, why pretend.

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=35d805ae48d8bb9999504d130&id=6ecd42b777&e=8ad7d6ef29

MSN Spaces forced it’s users to either come here or lose their blogs last December. I lost a link farm of over 1500 of my peers through the years in the transfer.  Hopefully as I gain control of this space I’ll be able to restore Deadheads United™  to it previous glory.

Things are happening, good things!

Wayward Bill is lost.

This summer during my trip to the 42ND Annual Smoke-In in Washington, DC my current stepfather passed while en route. Then while I was at Portland Hempstalk the stepfather who adopted me and gave me his last names also died.

About a week after Hempstalk I came to the realization that I am now the patriarch of my family. I have been in a tailspin since.

I am not a shining star in my family. They are in Ohio. Me, Colorado. We work on the out of sight, out of mind concept as a family unit. Like I said I am not on their honor roll.

I love my family. I love myself. We don’t see I eye to eye.

I am at a crossroads. I have no true legacy. I have no wealth. My entire life has been an embarrassment to the people whom I share the bond of blood with. To other’s (non-family) I am a pot star.

Is this how I want to be remembered?

I can’t seem to come to grips with who I really am and the thing called family loyalty.

So I am abandoning FB until I can find my way back home. Social Networking is not the place for family matters. I am not abandoning my activism or my duties to the US Marijuana Party.

I can be reached @ waywardwon@hotmail.com, Subject: Where’s Wayward or 720.628.2639 (8a-5p MST).

Peace, Pot, Politics,
Wayward Bill

In Colorado, many claim, yet few actually represent the interests of the patients. The CANNABIS THERAPY INSTITUTE is by patients, for patients. http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com is an available resource to keep you updated on the ever-changing Rocky Mountain Legal Climate of Drug Policy. Or visit http://www.legalize2012.com to help bring real legalization to our state. Don’t be impressed by sad imitators trying to regulate marijuana like alcohol, and provide a tax base and jobs for the DOR Department of Revenue and law enforcement.

REAL Patients have been actively BOYCOTTING the MMJ REGISTRY “red card” program and Dispensary Model since July 1, 2011, the day the Confidentiality and Privacy of your MMJ Activities became eroded to an available federal database available to Social Security Administration, Veteran’s Administration, Health
and Human Services, IRS, DEA, and other agencies with the click of a mouse button.

BOYCOTT a MMJ System in Colorado which does not want you to grow your own, but be forced to go to State-sanctioned dispensaries where you can easily get SUBSTANDARD MMJ for $25. An 1/8oz., Plus Tax, or $45.-65. & UP, PLUS TAX, 1/8′s of premium MMJ, which are sure to leave your Finances Waning and The Patient left wanting more….for Relief! These Dispensaries have already made MILLIONS of DOLLARS in profuts and have NOT been good neighbors in our communities! Indigent Patients statewide SUFFER more now than ever before. While the indigent poor are sometimes left with ‘Half Off’ coupons for MMJ at half off, as an indigency program, even fewer have the financial resources to participate. Amendment 20 was passed by our voters in 2000 with COMPASSION in
Mind. Free Red Cards and over-priced Dispensary Medicine is NOT HEALING OUR NATION, SORRY.

Organizations have left the indigent OUT of the Equation, yet ask businesses to pay upwards of $25,000.00 or more yearly to represent their interests with government and the legislature. WHO among them represents US? Yep, you answered correctly if you said none of them.

Embrace your Colorado Constitutional Rights as a patient under Article 18 Sec. 14, where you can rely on your affirmative defense with “A” doctor’s signature, and no reference to registering with the State of Colorado! Embrace your statewide COMMUNITY to be part of and develop Legal Patient Collectives, as has been identified through the private social networking efforts of THE COLLECTIVE ADVANTAGE ( http://www.thecollectiveadvantage.org ). Join Today for FREE. A wide range of Collective development services are available, so YOU can build your own community. STAY LEGAL! STAY PROTECTED! KEEP REASONABLE ACCESS! And, most importantly, Keep the Government OUT of your medicine cabinet.
Which choice is best for your interests….& why?
 

(layout and graphic by Wayward Bill)

National Geographic Wants to Tell Cannabis Patients’ Stories

Do you have a compelling story about how cannabis is currently affecting
your life in a positive or negative way?

On the positive side, are you a patient who is achieving remarkable success
in cannabis therapy? Are you a healer working with cannabis patients and
witnessing miracles? Are you a gardener developing strains or a
medicine-maker producing medicines that are worthy of National Geographic?

Or on the negative side of cannabis law, have you suffered because the new
laws in Colorado are too restrictive? Are you a patient or caregiver that
is being prosecuted for medical cannabis? Are you a caregiver who has lost
patients or has been banned from dispensing medicine by your local
government?

If you think your story is *compelling* and you would like to publicize it,
than National Geographic might want to interview you. National Geographic
has sent a film crew out to Colorado from New York to film a 7-hour
documentary about medical marijuana in Colorado.

CTI has agreed to help to reach out to the medical cannabis community to
make sure National Geographic has the opportunity to tell the best and most
complete story about medical cannabis in Colorado. If you have a story that
you would like to share, and you think it would make good video, please
contact the series producer directly at:

CONTACT NAT. GEO.
Isaac Holub, Assistant Producer
National Geographic Colorado Medical Marijuana Series
Email: iholub@ngs.org
Subject: Please put “Colorado MMJ” in the subject of your email.

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Provided as a Public Service by the:
Cannabis Therapy Institute
P.O. Box 19084, Boulder, CO 80308
Phone: 877-420-4205
Web: http://www.CannabisTherapyInstitute.com
Email: info@cannabistherapyinstitute.com

User ‘Russ Belville, NORML Outreach Coordinator’ added comment to the
article:
‘NORML Knocks Amendment 40′
(written by: ‘Steve Bloom’)

View this article at:
http://www.celebstoner.com/201108037984/news/marijuana-news/norml-knocks-amendment-40.html

Subject of the comment:
‘Orlando, why do you assume “grassroots a’

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Orlando, why do you assume “grassroots activists” were left out of
Amendment 30′s drafting?  Is SAFER not a local Colorado grassroots
organization?  Are the activists from Mile High NORML who will be
supporting and working to pass this measure not grassroots activists?

Having reported on numerous similar situations in other states, let me
tell you how this works.

ANYBODY can propose an initiative.

So, Mason Tvert & Brian Vicente, both Coloradoans, worked with fellow
local activists and national backers to craft A30.

Other people are free to do just the same (and say they will, sometime in
2012, because why rush it when you need to collect probably a half million
signatures?), just like this lady’s A40.

But what happens is the former have money, influence, connections,
experience, and a successful track record, and the latter do not.

So the former (let’s call them “National”, even though most of the legwork
is being done by locals) do some polling, analyze public sentiment, review
previous initiatives, learn from mistakes, assess the current situations,
write drafts of legislation, run it by attorneys who tear it apart clause
by clause, re-write and work out what they believe to be the language that
best balances the absolute freedom for cannabis we’d all like versus what
will pass with 50%+1 of the vote from the public, a sizable portion of
which still believe marijuana is a demon gateway drug straight to heroin
and causes their kids to become long haired dirty stinky slacker losers
who do bong hits in the SUV and drive down I-25.

The latter (let’s call them “Locals”) then get pissed off because National
has already written, vetted, and proposed their language, gotten it
approved by the State, and begun collecting signatures before Locals have
even stopped arguing among themselves about the basic concepts they wish
to put on the ballot.  Then they scream about “not being consulted”, even
though National has heard many times from many different Locals in many
different states most of the exact same proposals the Locals are floating.
But since National didn’t knock on the door of Mr. or Ms. Self-Appointed
Arbiter of Who, When, & How Initiatives Are Filed and directly ask him or
her  whether or not they should consider his plan to make all weed legal
for all people all the time in any amount anywhere for any reason with no
taxes, regulations, licenses, or restrictions, and all the pot prisoners
set free immediately with their records expunged… Locals don’t believe
they were “consulted”.

Rather than come to the realization that The Stones were right; we can’t
always get what we want, the Locals will then begin attacking the National
because they are proposing an initiative far more conservative than the
True Cannabis Freedom™ they would like to see eventually fail with
30% of the vote.  Locals are pissed, because, by God, they are the ones
who’ve been to the Longmont City Council meetings and the Colorado
legislative hearings, and who are these National guys, just swooping in
and proposing amendments, like Colorado’s Amendment 20 and every other
marijuana law reform initiative that has passed (only 2010′s California
Prop 19 was funded by someone / some group NOT Soros / Lewis / National
Group… and it failed.)

If National actually did “consult” Locals the way Locals dream of, what
would happen?  Locals would propose their water-pipe-dream True Cannabis
Freedom™ clauses, National would laugh them out of the room, and
Locals would then go ahead and attack National anyway, not for failing to
“consult” this time, but for not adopting the Local’s True Cannabis
Freedom™.  Locals would never accept that “consult” means “ask for
advice”, not “receive marching orders”, and if their proposals were heard
and not accepted, the last thing they’d do is accept that and move on,
working to support the measure they’d been “consulted” on.

Or to make a long comment short (too late):  Locals want National to give
them all the money, media, labor, and expertise to pass the initiative
they want and then get the hell out of the way.

The Locals, now dissed and “marginalized” in their minds (they were
already disrespected and marginal to begin with), will attack not just
National, but the legalization proposal they’ve put before the voters.
“It’s not true legalization!” they’ll say.  ”Carpetbaggers!” they’ll
scream.  ”Trying to corner the marijuana market!” they’ll predict.  Then
they will actively lobby and fight AGAINST the National proposal, because,
gosh, the conservative proposal of legalizing one ounce away from the
home, six plants and all the harvests in the home, and all industrial hemp
just isn’t worth supporting, and all the people who’d be arrested for
those amounts should continue to get arrested until Locals can pass True
Cannabis Freedom™.

Another twist in this is that Locals in many cases are the grassroots
activists who’ve been shepherding the current MEDICAL marijuana law and
have, at numerous occasions, told National to stay out of the medical
marijuana pool, lest they poison it with “legalizer” rhetoric.  But now
that National, with its legalization focus, comes in to attempt a
legalization measure, suddenly the medical Locals are the experts to be
consulted.

Note that this isn’t all “Locals”.  Most of them are reasonable and work
with National orgs to pass the best legalization proposal that has a
chance of passing.  No, these “Locals” usually form their own org with an
important-sounding name and title and may even be local news media
contacts (thinking it’s because they’re important, not because local news
loves to parade a batshit crazy True Marijuana Believer in front of the
camera to discredit the movement) and feel that the reasons their org
doesn’t have money, influence, connections, experience, and a successful
track record have nothing to do with them and everything to do with the
evil machinations of the National.

You can usually identify the True Marijuana Believer type of Local.
They’re the ones shouting at legislators, disrupting public meetings,
leading rallies against National orgs, proposing sit-ins to disrupt
National conferences, suggesting dead kids on bicycles are to blame for
getting themselves hit by cars, and seriously believing a majority of
voters will support ideas like 12 pounds, 99 plants, $10/ounce tax limit,
total amnesty for pot prisoners, and regulations that treat cannabis less
strictly than alcohol.  They often put “Rev.” before their names.
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Patient Collective Teleclass

Teleclass: Forming a Medical Marijuana Patient Collective

A Live Phone Teleclass by Attorney Adam Mayo

DATE: Thurs., July 28, 2011

Attorney Adam Mayo presents the patient collective model, which is a
profitable business model that allows patients to help other patients as
provided for in the Colorado Constitution. The Patient Collective business
model (protected by the Constitution) may actually offer more legal
protection than the Medical Marijuana Center (MMC) business model
(protected only by statute). Like MMC’s, patient collectives can be run as
for-profit organizations. Unlike MMC’s, Patient Collectives do not involve
the buying and selling of cannabis, and therefore are not regulated by the
Department of Revenue. However, they do enjoy protection under the
Constitution, and some argue that the Patient Collective Model is actually
more true to the intent of the Constitution than the MMC Model.

*** ENROLL TODAY ***
http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/classes/

TIME
- 6:00pm (Pacific)
- 7:00pm (Mountain)
- 8:00pm (Central)
- 9:00pm (Eastern)

COST: $49.00 per person

DESCRIPTION: CTI’s teleclasses are live seminars that people listen to and
participate in over the telephone from anywhere in the world. After you
enroll, you will receive a phone number and access code. At the specified
time, just call in and enter the code. You will be able to hear the
teleclass. You can ask questions by email. Each teleclass is 50 – 60
minutes long.

*** ENROLL TODAY ***
http://www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com/classes/

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Provided as a Public Service by the:
Cannabis Therapy Institute
P.O. Box 19084, Boulder, CO 80308
Phone: 877-420-4205
Web: www.cannabistherapyinstitute.com
Email: info@cannabistherapyinstitute.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s time to get this petition drive started!

The campaign’s petition drive is now up and running, and we need your help collecting the signatures necessary to qualify this historic initiative for the 2012 ballot.

 

Starting this weekend, the campaign will be holding trainings for those who are interested in getting involved and beginning to collect signatures.  At these events we will distribute petitions, explain the petitioning process and latest rules, provide tips, and answer questions.  See below for a listing of scheduled trainings, or click HERE to find information about them on-line.  And if you’re a business or organization, please hang tight — we’ll soon be contacting you directly!

Please also note that we have requested everyone RSVP for these trainings so we can prepare accordingly.  We realize these events are pretty confined to the Front Range, and that not everyone will be available to accommodate the dates and times.  If that’s the case, we plan on getting in touch to find out the best way to get you a petition and the instructions you need, or you can click HERE to send us a message letting us know we need to make arrangements.  We’ll be holding these trainings in various cities around the state over the next couple months, so please keep an eye on our events calendar and look out for future campaign announcements.

If you signed up for the campaign by simply providing your e-mail and ZIP, we encourage you to visit the Get Involved page to let us know whether you’re interested in collecting signatures and/or helping in other ways.  You can also let us know by replying to this e-mail or RSVPing for one of the volunteer petitioner trainings below.  And if you only signed up to receive updates or get involved in other ways, rest assured you will stop receiving these petition-specific alerts moving forward.

 

 

 

Volunteer Petitioner Trainings – Round 1Colorado Springs: Volunteer Petitioner Training

July 17th, 2011 – 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Penrose Library, Adult Room
20 North Cascade Ave
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
Map

Please RSVP if you plan on attending.

Colorado Springs PrideFest will be taking place in nearby Acacia Park, where volunteers can begin petitioning, or join the petition drive coordinator to get a feel for how it’s done.

 

 

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Denver: Volunteer Petitioner Training

 

July 18th, 2011 – 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Campaign Office
1177 Grant Street, Suite 310   (SW corner of 12th/Grant)
Denver, CO 80203
Map

Please RSVP if you plan on attending.

 

 

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Boulder: Volunteer Petitioner Training

 

July 19th, 2011 – 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Boulder Main Library, Main Meeting Room
1001 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302
Map

Please RSVP if you plan on attending.

 

 

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Denver: Volunteer Petitioner Training

July 20th, 2011 – 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Campaign Office
1177 Grant Street, Suite 310   (SW corner of 12th/Grant)
Denver, CO 80203
Map

Please RSVP if you plan on attending.

 

 

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Fort Collins: Volunteer Petitioner Training

July 26th, 2011 – 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Location TBA
Fort Collins, CO

Please RSVP if you are interested in attending.

 

 

Wayward Bill

Why are petitions being circulated for Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012?