cityofangelslady Now that H-B 4498 for Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana has been introduced in the West Virginia State Legislature, next step towards passage would be a public hearing in the Health and Human Resources Committee, whose members’ email addresses and phone numbers are posted below.
Meanwhile per WSAZ in Charleston: 63 percent support medical marijuana in poll taken soon after introduction of HB4498 to the West Virginia State Legislature last week.
A public hearing will be “an opportunity for individuals to come and offer their opinion on the bill,” said Dave Dawson of West Virginia NORML in Charleston.
“At a public hearing we can present witnesses and experts to offer opinions and findings of studies to the committee.
“If a public hearing has a strong showing the committee may be more inclined to put the bill onto the agenda.
“HB 4498 is still in the Health and Human Resources Committee and is still not on the committee agenda to be discussed. If HB 4498 does not make it onto the committee agenda it will not be voted on by the committee and will not go to the house floor for a vote this session.
“However we still have time to request a Public Hearing. They have been hearing your calls so keep them up!”
LOBBY FROM YOUR LAPTOPS: Below is contact information for members of the Health and Human Resources Committee of the West Virginia State Legislature.
Email or call them and ask for a Public Hearing, with at least three days notice, for House Bill 4498, Compassionate Use Act for Medical Cannabis
Don Perdue Committee Chair don.perdue@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3269
Barbara Hatfield (D – Kanawha) Committee Vice Chair bobbie.hatfield@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3140
Joe Ellington (R – Mercer) Committee Minority Chair joe.ellington@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3172
Jonathan Miller (R – Berkeley) Committee jonathan@delegatejmiller.com Minority Chair (304) 340-3147
Anthony Barill (D – Monongalia) Anthony.barill@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3173
Denise L. Campbell (D – Randolph) denise.campbell@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3145
Thomas W. Campbell (D – Greenbrier) tcampbell@grcs.com (304) 340-3280
Ryan Ferns (D – Ohio) ryan.ferns@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3270
Barbara Evans Fleischauer (D – Monongalia) barbaraf@wvhouse.gov (304)340-3169
Tiffany Elizabeth Lawrence (D – Jefferson) lawrencefordelegate@hotmail.com (304) 340-3152
Charlene Marshall (D – Monongalia) charlene.marshall@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3900
Clif Moore (D – McDowell) clif.moore@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3189
Ruth Rowan (R – Hampshire) ruth.rowan@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3157
Amanda Pasdon (R – Monongalia) amanda.pasdon@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3153
Carol Miller (R – Cabell) carol.miller@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3176
Patrick Lane (R – Kanawha) patrick.lane@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3275
Eric L. Householder (R – Berkeley) eric.householder@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3274
Anna Border (R – Wood) anna.border@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3136
Troy Andes (R – Putnam) troy.andes@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3121
Margaret Anne Staggers (D – Fayette) margaret.staggers@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3197
Ralph Rodighiero (D – Logan) ralph.rodighiero@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3154
Meshea Poore (D – Kanawha) meshea.poore@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3248
Linda Goode Phillips (D – Wyoming) linda.phillips@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3163
David G. Perry (D – Fayette) d.perry@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3117
Ricky Moye (D – Raleigh) rickymoye@wvhouse.gov (304) 340-3162
HB4498:http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4498&year=2012&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Health and Human Resources Committee: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/committees/house/HouseCommittee.cfm?Chart=hhr
If you want to engage your delegate or a delegate member of the committee about why HB 4498 should be enacted you can cite research and reports we have accumulated and uploaded to http://wvnorml.org/resources/facts-and-stats .
WVNORML will continue to update and add to this resource bank but for now there is plenty of information in the links and downloads.
VIDEO: Charleston WV news report on introduction of HB4498
Posted by Kay Ebeling, reporting from Appalachia
Here is the email I’m sending them:
Dear Delegate: Hold Hearings on HB4498 Compassionate Use of Medical Marijuana Act 2012 for West Virginia
cityofangelslady They didn’t even pave paradise*, just threw gravel all over it. Before and After Pictures Below document removal of a waterfall by natural gas industry contractors, to make way for a road accommodating hydraulic fracturing wells in Blake Run area of Wetzel County, West Virginia.
Using a waterfall to illustrate its point, Chesapeake Energy ran its “Champion of Natural Beauty” ad displayed at right around the same time it was overseeing removal of a waterfall from Wetzel County West Virginia to make way for a road carrying natural gas products in and out of the region.
Ad Copy reads:
“The mountains of West Virginia are an American treasure. Their bold natural beauty reflects the spirit, pride, and fortitude that are so firmly engrained in the character of this state and its people. Chesapeake is proud to be here- helping to safely produce the vast reserves of clean burning natural gas in the Marcellus Shale and to build new prosperity and stability for generations to come. Chesapeake Energy. America’s Champion of Natural Gas ™
BEFORE: 2004
AFTER: 2010
WELL MAP Blake Run, Wetzel County WV
Information in this post was garnered from http://wcag-wv.org/W/Water/WaterfallRemovalBlakeRun.htm Wetzel County Action Group, West Virginia
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Posted by Kay Ebeling, Producer, City of Angels Blog.
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* * Paving Paradise refers to Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell: Watch video where this story originally appeared at City of Angels BLog today.
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cityofangelslady From 4,300 feet away, Condensate Tank Discharge “was loud and could be heard and seen for hours,” reports West Virginia activisit who published video of natural gas fracking [watch at City of Angels Blog] at Durig Well in Wetzel County, West Virginia, on Feb. 26, 2011.
Rocking of tank as it discharges is noticeable in second half of video.
Source of all these materials: http://wcag-wv.org/ Wetzel County Action Group.
February 16, 2011 pictures of polluted water being released from pipeline on Blake Ridge.
Published on AlterNet by Kay Ebeling, producer of City of Angels Blog since 2007.
cityofangelslady Since they say ordaining women is “on a par with clergy abuse,” the Catholic Church must think female priests are okay, as the Vatican has barely responded one way or the other about its pedophile crime epidemic. -ke
From Huffington Post story linked below:
“Last year, the Vatican made ordaining a woman one of the gravest canonical crimes, on par with sexually abusing a child.”
They call both priest pedophilia and ordaining women “grave canonical crimes” but then let pedophile priests remain in the clergy. In fact, a Catholic priest has the ability to forgive all crimes, so any criminal activity involving a priest is forgivable, so go ahead and start ordaining women…
Circular Reasoning
from Kay Ebeling
READ this story with photo at City of Angels Blog
From Lance’s Blog: “Designer Camelle Ilona Daley has a line of stylish clerical clothing. The picture (at CofA Blog) of a model wearing female priestly garments provoked some controversy among my friends on Facebook. Some were offended, I saw one comment that said, “these are the END TIMES…” Some objected to female priests; others objected not to a female priest, but to this particular picture, which seems to them to be suggestive.”
See Fashion Collection for a Female Priest at House of Filona
Read story that sparked this blog entry at Huffington Post:
Roy Bourgeois, U.S. Priest Who Backs Women’s Ordination, Detained
VATICAN CITY — A U.S. Catholic priest who supports ordination for women was detained briefly by police Monday after marching to the Vatican to press the Holy See to lift its ban on women priests. The Rev. Roy Bourgeois and about a dozen supporters had marched down the main boulevard leading to the Vatican holding a banner “Ordain Catholic Women” and chanting outside St. Peter’s Square …
cityofangelslady “I don’t want a government bureaucrat to manage my health care.”
Do they think a corporate bureaucrat will do a better job?
At least a government administrator is working for us, the taxpayers who pay his salary. Corporate insurance bureaucrats work for profits to benefit themselves and stockholders. Insurance company CEO’s have no interest in keeping Americans healthy, whereas most government “bureaucrats” are public servants.
Now that Wall Street has destroyed the housing industry with faulty mortgages, the CEOs are branching into a new area: health insurance, where they can exploit human beings directly, profiting off the need we all have to treat illnesses.
I think it is suspicious that Wall Street is growing its investment in the “health care business” at the same time President Obama neglected to include Single Payer as an option in health care reform.
This affects me personally. I am 63 years old and somewhat sick but have no way to see a doctor until I turn 65 and finally get Medicare, if I make it to 65….
I was so happy to read the following two statements recently at the singlepayer action dot org website:
“We are sick of health insurance companies jacking up premiums while insurance CEOs make out like bandits.”
AND
“We are sick of high deductibles, co-pays, and the in-network, out-of-network Rube Goldberg system we live under”
I was beginning to think no one was noticing.
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Blogged by Kay Ebeling, living in the USA
cityofangelslady The Bush tax cuts are the main cause of our nation’s debt, not spending, even though that is the sound byte repeated over and over by corporate media.
Reporters used to be reporters, not flacks reading corporate press statements, as we see on network news.
Today even NPR sounds like it’s delivering the Republican message.
The USA used to be a humane place where everyone had a home, and if you worked, you could afford a car and to send your children to college.
If people had good jobs again, they would pay directly into the treasury and Social Security from their paychecks, and cuts to safety net programs would not even be a consideration. Our laws have to stop rewarding businesses for sending jobs overseas. We have to re-instate taxes on millionaires.
How many yachts and mansions does a person need? Especially while the rest of us can barely keep roofs over our heads?
Kay Ebeling
cityofangelslady “It is easy to have impact on the overall decision of The Hague prosecutor, as anyone can write directly with evidence of the crimes that this religious organization has committed,” according to an email from Axel Cooley axel@telegracia.com received this week by City of Angels Blog.
“It is vital to do this well before his decision date, May 15, 2011, so that he can utilize this evidence to proceed,” writes Cooley.
Send your story and evidence to:
The Prosecutor
The International Criminal Court
Dr. Luis Moreno Ocampo
Maanweg174 NL-2516 AB Den Haag
The Hague,The Netherlands
Cooley writes: “It is also important to enter your name in one of the websites of these websites demonstrating your approval:”
http://www.popeaccountability.org/do-you-approve-/index.php (English)
http://www.der-fall-des-papstes.com/finden-sie-das-gut/index.php (German)
Soon, the Pope Accountability website will be made available in Spanish, French and Italian.
This post originally appeared at City of Angels Blog by Kay Ebeling:
Write Hague Criminal Court Prosecutor by May 11 re Crimes Against Humanity of Pope
City of Angels Blog is Ba-a-a-ack with a vengeance
cityofangelslady PLUS
cityofangelslady New name for a feature at City of Angels Blog – PippiLeaks: Documents scanned for everyone in the world to click enlarge and read for free forever about sex crime coverups in the Catholic Church, here are 4 more from New Mexico, plus 2 bonus posts:
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“Destruction of documents took place in considerable measure, and wide-ranging collections of documents were stored outside the Palace in private dwellings, and thus made susceptible to manipulation.”
“Vital documentation, affecting for example former activities of the person under investigation or the reasons for a change of diocese in the case of incardinated priests, was missing in most cases. There was no….
cityofangelslady It started as a joke, I’d say:
Yeah I can’t afford health insurance, and I might die early as a result but there’s medical marijuana at the corner store and Viagra on the internet, so at least I’ll die happy. That joke was at the end of a column I wrote three years ago about going to free clinics with “blood in the stools” and still never getting any diagnostic work done. I’m still waiting for County to call me with an appointment for a colonoscopy, I’ve been waiting more than a year. I’ve since moved out of that County…
An email today from Reading Glasses Shopper featured the “John Lennon Full-Frame Reader” as a Friday Find for $8 until midnight today only. I would buy a pair, but the Lennon Reader only goes up to 3.5 strength and I’m shopping for 4.0 or higher. Still I’m happy to see another thriving business selling medical care online that people used to get from doctors, as it’s all I’ve got…
A good six years ago when my daughter and I were homeless, I used up my last set of contact lenses and discovered that the reading glasses you buy at a Walgreens type store will suffice when you can’t afford the optometrist. My eyes seem to have adjusted to the 4.0 strength glasses I’ve been able to find online where some pairs go all the way up to 7.00 in magnifying strength. The strongest glasses you can find in drugstores is 3.25 if you’re lucky. I think there’s some concern somewhere that keeps chain retailers from selling reading glasses stronger than 3.25 but online you can prescribe yourself all the way to total blindness.
It is kind of scary.
I mean, in twenty years, will the USA be full of blind people with cataracts and glaucoma and other disease that could have been treated? Like a third world country, fourth world?
The ads on TV for prescription drugs today are truly unprecedented. I mean a 60 second commercial where 45 seconds are spent telling you all the side effects you might encounter if you take this drug, and the other drugs that you might be taking that make the drug in this commercial deadly, and what side effects you could have from the drug and if you have those deadly reactions, go at once to an emergency room.
Here is the scenario I imagine from commercials for prescription drugs:
Most Americans who do have health insurance, have opted into a low cost plan. When I have had health insurance in past ten years, the doctors I’ve gone to have barely spoken English and sometimes I’ve even wondered how legitimate their license on the wall really was. My favorite was the little Armenian man who was going to do in-office minor surgery on me, and as he picked up his instruments I heard him say, “oops.”
How many of us are going into one of the doctors to whom we’ve been assigned by our insurance company, and not feeling like we can talk to the doctor at all, so we just asked for the drug we wanted, based on the TV commercial we saw, and the doctor wrote the prescription? Then when we get home we can wait for the commercial to come on again, so we can try to write down all the side effects to watch for after starting the drug.
As I search the internet for a place where I can buy glasses stronger than 4.0, wondering if the little bit of medical marijuana I smoke will keep me from getting glaucoma like my dad and aunt on both sides of the family had, using Fixodent to glue back in old tooth fillings and hopefully with lots of mouthwash keeping my teeth from rotting, staying away from men who take Viagra, when maybe I really should be looking for a man who takes Viagra, hoping that the muscle relaxant I bought from Canada won’t have a bad interaction with the pain killer I bought from India… I keep reminding myself.
We’re not meant to stay on this planet for more than 80 years or so anyway, so if I die a few years early of no health insurance, the difference is just one tiny blip in time in the totality of the cosmos. (See, it’s easier today to get LSD than an antibiotic.)
As I posted this entry just now on AlterNet, a commercial for yet another medication came on saying,
“Interaction with other drugs such as Prilosex might result in heart attack or stroke, but don’t stop taking this medication suddenly as your risk of heart attack or stroke may increase. Do not take this drug if you are going to have surgery, especially if you have recently had a stroke, or if you think you might have a stroke in the future, as truth is, anyone can have a stroke so a stroke really wouldn’t be a result of taking this medication, and this commercial protects us from litigation should patients die after taking our product.”
Or something like that.
(Posted by Kay Ebeling who produces City of Angels Blog as one of a hundred thousand victims of pedophile priests in the USA seeking truth and justice, but that is a whole nother topic.)
