{"id":641195,"date":"2017-05-02T02:02:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T02:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/christian-politician-breaks-law-and-delivers-free-cannabis-to-patients\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T02:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T02:02:32","slug":"christian-politician-breaks-law-and-delivers-free-cannabis-to-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/christian-politician-breaks-law-and-delivers-free-cannabis-to-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Politician Breaks Law and Delivers Free Cannabis to Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div>\n<div class=\"entry_content\" style=\"padding:0px\">
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<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/christian-lawmaker-cannabis-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carey Wedler | The Anti-Media<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Macon,\u00a0<\/em><em>Georgia \u2014\u00a0<\/em>Though states around the country are legalizing both medicinal and recreational cannabis, many Americans in need of the plant still face difficulties obtaining it.<\/p>\n<p>In Georgia, for example, which approved a medical marijuana program in 2015, only 1,300 patients <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/state--regional-govt--politics\/300-patients-have-qualified-for-georgia-medical-marijuana-registry\/WBz0Ca3erY1bwqfjMpuRbM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">qualify<\/a>, and they are not actually allowed to obtain it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- FC Large 1 --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"><\/ins><br \/>\nThe <i>Associated Press<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/COGRA\/d30f3f32e9d849979111e891380b64db\/Article_2017-04-28-US-Medical-Marijuana-Legislator's-Network\/id-d45070f5fbfc40598d8f9349db388b1f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notes<\/a> Georgia\u2019s law \u201c<i>now provides low-THC cannabis oil to more than a thousand patients. Enrollees can have it, but they can\u2019t cultivate, import or purchase the drug<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This stipulation leaves many Georgians without access to the plant they are \u2018allowed\u2019 to use.<\/p>\n<p>Enter state Representative Allen Peake, who is evading the state\u2019s edicts to provide cannabis oil to medical marijuana patients who are unable to get it themselves because of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Peake previously authored the 2015 bill that allowed medical access to cannabis and is currently working to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macon.com\/news\/local\/article126117179.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expand<\/a> the legality of the plant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- FC Large 2 --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"><\/ins><br \/>\nIn the meantime, he is providing the medicine to people all around the state.<\/p>\n<p><i>AP<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted2.ap.org\/COGRA\/d30f3f32e9d849979111e891380b64db\/Article_2017-04-28-US-Medical-Marijuana-Legislator's-Network\/id-d45070f5fbfc40598d8f9349db388b1f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reports<\/a> that Peake imports the oil from outside Georgia but insists he does not know where it originates \u2014 and doesn\u2019t want to know. \u201c<i>Quite frankly, I don\u2019t know how the product gets here<\/i>,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p><i>AP<\/i>\u00a0details his \u201cquasi-legal\u201d process:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<i>Each time one of the nondescript boxes arrives, Peake makes a significant donation to a foundation in Colorado that supports research of medical cannabis. He can\u2019t make a direct payment, because that would be illegal. But with his donations of about $100,000 a year, he and his wife are able to supply the oil to hundreds of patients across Georgia.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peake and his wife distribute the cannabis oil for free because if they attempted\u00a0to sell it, they would be committing a felony. Further, though medical marijuana is legal in Georgia, transporting it across state lines is not.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- FC Large 3 --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"><\/ins><br \/>\nBut that\u2019s not the only reason Peake gives it away. He fundamentally believes in people\u2019s right to medicate themselves. As the conservative Christian lawmaker \u2014 who also owns a successful chain of restaurants \u2014 told <i>AP<\/i>, \u201c<i>We\u2019re going to do whatever it takes to be able to help get product to these families, these citizens who have debilitating illnesses<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013> Continue to full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/theantimedia.org\/christian-lawmaker-cannabis-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Anti-Media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t
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 Carey Wedler | The Anti-Media Macon,\u00a0Georgia \u2014\u00a0Though states around the country are legalizing both medicinal and recreational cannabis, many Americans in need of the plant still face difficulties obtaining it. In Georgia, for example, which approved a medical marijuana program in 2015, only 1,300 patients qualify, and they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1721],"tags":[26376,2407,17864,24833,23698,20231],"class_list":["post-641195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news","tag-breaks","tag-cannabis","tag-christian","tag-delivers","tag-patients","tag-politician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewworldorder.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}