3. Our Mission A nonprofit organization formed to enhance and protect the rights of all medical marijuana patients. To provide a safe and comfortable environment that represents the unique needs of our community while reaching out to all who are suffering and in need.
5. PATIENT BASED Goals Patient Services To provide education and resources about medical marijuana to our Community. To advocate for the decriminalization of medical marijuana as it directly relates to our Community. To ensure our Community is included in the benefits medically, socially, politically, and economically, of this budding industry. To Get Our 40 Acres! And A Mule Delivery Legal referral and fund $40 1/8 Various strains Community harm reduction programs Pain management services Health management Growers Education and Research Programs Community Programs Community Advocacy
6. Remember Berkeley:A Farming History Farmers settled Organic Gardening Community Gardening Green Living Medical Marijuana
7. BERKELEY GROWN VICKI & SCOTT SMITH Civil Rights Activists moved here to raise children in a racially progressive city. Scott Smith started the first OrganicFarm in West Berkeley. Was also a member of the Berkeley & Oakland Crack Task Force in the 80’s.
8. MedicalMarijuana in Black and Low Income Communties Marijuana has been used medicinally in our Community before it was called “Medical Marijuana” for: Drug Addiction Rehabilitation: Ease withdrawal symptoms associated with Crack Cocaine Community Violence Prevention People chose to provide medical marijuana instead of dealing crack cocaine.
9. DISEASE CANCER: Highest for African-American men Death rate highest for African-American men and Women 5 year Cancer Survival rate is 15% lower for African-Americans than it is for whites. The prevalence of Diabetes among African Americans is 70% higher than whites. 2007 BLACK AIDS CASES 17,507 THE HIGHEST !
10. CRIMINALIZATION In Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Indiana, Tennessee, Arizona, Utah, New York, and California: The arrest rate of African-Americans for marijuana offenses is 2.5 times HIGHER the arrest rate of whites. Marijuana possession arrests of African-Americans are the highest! Of the 797,903 marijuana arrests in the United States 279, 419 were African American. Source: United States Marijuana Arrests 2000 Jon Gettman and the NORML Foundation
11. OUR PATIENTS NEEDS PROTECTION ACCESS TO PUBLIC COMMERCIAL SPACE To Reduce the adverse consequences of Racial Profiling a recognized and public location is necessary to create a safe space for patients. WE MUST COLLECTIVIZE Low income people may not own property and residences are often too small and nonconducive for gardens. Low Income people are subjected to federal anti marijuana laws in Social Services and Housing Programs that restrict our ability to medicate and cultivate affordably with out potential risks to income and housing. ORGANIZE UNDER STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL GUIDELINES We need an easily recognizable legal system of accountability, that includes nonprofit incorporation status, remitting of sales tax, and verifiable membership processes . LEGAL ADVOCACY As the highest criminalized group of people we need consistent and stable legal representation for all members not just Leaders. CITY SUPPORT City wide recognition and support of collectives reduces potential risks.
12. OUR PATIENTS NEEDS ACCESS TO QUALITY MEDICINE Safe Cultivation Space With Wheelchair Accessibility Unlimited Outdoor Space that is protected by Police is the most economically viable and eco-friendly cultivation process for our patients. Unlimited Greenhouse Cultivation is also an economically and eco-friendly viable cultivation process for patients. Commercial Space: To meet the needs of a growing membership and to ensure fire prevention safety we need commercial, multiuse, and industrial space ranging from 800-1500 feet. Residential Space: To meet the needs of our patient individual grows and to ensure fire prevention safety we need 10x10 square foot space. Ancillary Spaces: Regulated by Health Department, are necessary to provide and cook medicinal marijuana edibles, produce tinctures, and conduct research while also promoting entrepreneurship, healing and research aiding our community.
