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HomeMy WebLinkAbout07.0- Public Comment Failed Promises of Legalized Pot: Vote No on Measures N O & P Marijuana commercialization and the almighty dollar should never take priority over public health! Myself, along with many of my fellow life-long residents, have seen this "All American City" change greatly over the decades, and I'm concerned Measures N, 0 & P will create additional problems for the city. Significant attention must be given to health, agricultural, zoning, local enforcement, and criminal penalty issues. These important issues are unaddressed in the N, 0 & P ballot initiatives. 1. San Bernardino will experience increases among youth marijuana usage: After legalization, Colorado, Oregon and Washington experienced increased marijuana usage among teens, resulting in problems at middle and high schools, and spikes in edible marijuana-related emergency room visits (cookies, brownies, etc). Children and pets accidentally ingested edible marijuana products, resulting in many illnesses and deaths (Hurley& Mazor 2013,Wang et al 2014,WAPC 2014). Colorado State Health officials even wanted to ban the sale of marijuana-infused cookies, candies &brownies. 2. San Bernardino will experience dangerous increases in drugged-driving and fatal crashes: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the American Automobile Association's (AAA) recent statistics show traffic fatalities in Washington doubled from 2013 to 2014. In Utah, fatal car accidents more than doubled in the last three years, and drivers who tested positive for marijuana nearly tripled between 2012 and 2015! It's no wonder AAA is against all legalized marijuana. The NHTSA report concludes that marijuana could double a driver's risk of crashing. 3. San Bernardino will experience increases in crime and black market marijuana sales: Why? It's economics. The black market undercuts the dispensary prices. Not only that, but other states have shown that growers and dispensaries sell medical marijuana on a cash basis "under the table", avoiding taxes. Colorado crime increased after legalization (10%), but underground sales/arrests did not decrease. Their murders are skyrocketing: Ten of the last 15 murders in Arapahoe County were connected to marijuana. 4. This is not your grandfather's pot. THC, the psychoactive component in marijuana has risen from 5% to an average of 13%, and in some medical dispensaries, it is 30%. The U.S. Federal Government continues to oppose marijuana legalization, because marijuana is detrimental to public health. Not for publication: (909) 838-8096 1681 Echo Dr. San Bernardino, CA 92404 SIGNIFICANT HEALTH RISKS FROM MARIJUANA USE: • Respiratory illnesses (Western Journal Medicine, 1993) • Addictive (Experimental &Clinical Psychology, 1994, New England Journal Medicine, 2014) • Cognitive impairment &decline (National Academy of Sciences, 2012 & Journal American Medical Association, 2015) • Long-term use linked with lower IQ later in life (average 8 point drop). (National Academy of Sciences, 2012) • Motor performance impairments (Annals of American Thoracic Society, 2013) • Decreased brain development, Diminished lifetime achievement, (New England Journal Medicine, 2014) • Chronic bronchitis (Current Opinion in Pulmonary Medicine, 2014) • Doubles risk of developing lung cancer (Review of Respiratory Maladies, 2014) • Psycho-social impairments,vehicle crashes, emergency room visits, psychiatric symptoms, poor quality of life, use of other drugs, cannabis- withdrawal syndrome, and addiction risk (Journal of the American Medical Association, 2015) • Depression and anxiety (New England Journal Medicine, 2014, Journal of Depression and Anxiety, 2016) • Heavy use associated with low bone mineral density&increased risk of fractures (American Journal of Medicine, 2016) San Bernardino currently has regulations in place on the marijuana industry,which our city and police force are not able to enforce. Knowing that, how can San Bernardino consider expanding this industry- especially when the city is already challenged with overwhelming crime, blight, and bankruptcy? Voting No on Measures N, 0 & P protects our children, health, community, and property values. Please like the Facebook page and posts, to help spread this message: www.Facebook.com/VoteNopeToDope Margie Arnett, M.S. Past Chair of the Substance Abuse,Addictions &Tobacco Dependence Education section of the American Dental Education Association San Bernardino resident Not for publication: (909) 838-8096 1681 Echo Dr. San Bernardino, CA 92404 Methane Hydrates and Extreme Climate Change By Jay Lindberg 909-666-3657. 7/31/2016 update 9/1/2016 First of all, the government lied to us about climate change. They did not teach us how modern industrial society would poison the planet because they profited from the status quo. They told us to believe in climate change instead and we would not see the environmental impacts until 2100. More lies. Anyone stupid enough to believe that a 1*C increase in global temperatures, BY ITSELF, will doom this planet is a moron. SO here is what they didn't tell us. Extreme climate change is triggered by positive feed back loops, like a fire that starts with a match. The heat source, the fuel, for extreme global climate change is methane, a common energy source. But methane is also stored in vast quantities of ice crystals on our ocean floors and permafrost regions as long as temperatures stay below freezing. Methane makes up 20% of the carbon equivalent of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. For the short term (10 years) Methane is an extremely powerful greenhouse gas. (up to 82 X the potency of CO2). The approximate amount of methane in our atmosphere is 5 GT (Giga-tons). There is at least 300 GT of Methane Hydrate on the Arctic Ocean floor, an estimated 1400 GT of Methane Hydrate in the permafrost in the northern hemisphere, and over 30,000 GT of Methane hydrate on ocean floors globally. Methane hydrate forms in sub zero temperatures under extreme pressures naturally. Methane hydrate melts in above freezing temperatures and releases methane gas into the Biosphere. As a gas, methane has a life span of 12 years as it oxidizes into our biosphere. This process generates large quantities of heat, CO2 and H2O. We are now seeing temperatures approaching 90 F in the Arctic Circle during the summers, rivers flowing into the Arctic reaching 80 F and temperatures exceeding 60 F in parts of the Arctic Ocean. Methane releases and oxidation is now the driving factor in the temperature increases in the Arctic Region. The melting of the Northern Icecap is of course, accelerating the process. CO2 increases in our biosphere triggered global warming and the melting of ice all over the planet. Under that ice is massive Methane Hydrate deposits that became unstable as the Northern Ice cap and permafrost caps melted. The Climate Science community stated a decade ago, that an abrupt 50 GT (50 billion ton) release of Methane should trigger a major global extinction event. The likely point of origin would be the Siberian tundra but the entire permafrost regions of the Northern hemisphere and the Arctic Ocean are becoming unstable. LIGHTNIG STRIKES TRIGGERED THE GLOBAL EXTINCTION EVENT IN APRIL 2016. OVER 200 MILLION ACRES OF TUNDRA HAVE BURNED IN SIBERIA AND ONE FIRE IS LARGER THAN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. VAST QUANTITIES OF METHANE GAS HAVE BEEN RELEASED INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE. The government has refused to provide honest Methane release totals for the Arctic / Permafrost region since 2011 and Methane Craters the size of small cities are appearing in permafrost regions. Species extinction rates have increased from one a week to over 200 a day. SO what will this mass extinction event look like for this species? There is more than enough Methane Hydrate in the Arctic and permafrost to raise the temperature of the Northern hemisphere by over 30 F for 100 years. Our forests and cities will burn. We will loss our habitat to grow food. AS far as the oceans are concerned, the 50 GT release will be followed with more of the same until the entire stores of Permafrost and Arctic methane is released and oxidized in our biosphere. Dead zones in our oceans will continue to expand and threaten this food source. Lots of people will starve to death. All the ice in the Northern Hemisphere will be gone. Most of our lakes will become anaerobic and sources of Hydrogen Sulfide gas. (A very deadly poison gas). All of the Nuclear power facilities, everyone of them will burn. Not the reactors themselves because the fuel rods will be removed, but all the cooling ponds will burn. 250,000 or 300,000 tons of spent fuel rods, maybe more will burn and atomize to radioactive dust. This dust will poison our biosphere for millions of years. Mammals do not do well in a radioactive environment. There should be no survivors. This process should be well on its way by 2020. BTW- Industrial hemp could have replaced oil as a source of our oil based synthetics technology in the 1930s. The founders of Marijuana prohibition were corporate competitors of industrial hemp. This swindle represents 30 % of our greenhouse gas emissions. So now we find out that banning Hemp played a tragic role in raising greenhouse gas emissions and killing this planet. I believe hemp prohibition has done enough to this planet and the global population, We can thank Wall Street, this corrupt government and the Drug War Nazis later. So let's not sit on our asses and let Wall Street and their puppet government kill us off. It is time to shave the wool off our backs, trade it for a good pair of fangs and learn to hunt in packs. If you don't fight to win they will kill you. It's that simple and you should have figured in out a long time ago. ouiprewa9 uec as A"') N 31 ap qby :hq 0W ,- 3B Pa03u3 Methane Hydrates and Extreme Climate Change By Jay Lindberg 909-666-3657. 7/31/2016 update 9/1/2016 First of all, the government lied to us about climate change. They did not teach us how modern industrial society would poison the planet because they profited from the status quo. They told us to believe in climate change instead and we would not see the environmental impacts until 2100. More lies. Anyone stupid enough to believe that a 1*C increase in global temperatures, BY ITSELF, will doom this planet is a moron. SO here is what they didn't tell us. Extreme climate change is triggered by positive feed back loops, like a fire that starts with a match. The heat source, the fuel, for extreme global climate change is methane, a common energy source. But methane is also stored in vast quantities of ice crystals on our ocean floors and permafrost regions as long as temperatures stay below freezing. Methane makes up 20% of the carbon equivalent of greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere. For the short term (10 years) Methane is an extremely powerful greenhouse gas. (up to 82 X the potency of CO2). The approximate amount of methane in our atmosphere is 5 GT (Giga-tons). There is at least 300 GT of Methane Hydrate on the Arctic Ocean floor, an estimated 1400 GT of Methane Hydrate in the permafrost in the northern hemisphere, and over 30,000 GT of Methane hydrate on ocean floors globally. Methane hydrate forms in sub zero temperatures under extreme pressures naturally. Methane hydrate melts in above freezing temperatures and releases methane gas into the Biosphere. As a gas, methane has a life span of 12 years as it oxidizes into our biosphere. This process generates large quantities of heat, CO2 and H2O. We are now seeing temperatures approaching 90 F in the Arctic Circle during the summers, rivers flowing into the Arctic reaching 80 F and temperatures exceeding 60 F in parts of the Arctic Ocean. Methane releases and oxidation is now the driving factor in the temperature increases in the Arctic Region. The melting of the Northern Icecap is of course, accelerating the process. CO2 increases in our biosphere triggered global warming and the melting of ice all over the planet. Under that ice is massive Methane Hydrate deposits that became unstable as the Northern Ice cap and permafrost caps melted. The Climate Science community stated a decade ago, that an abrupt 50 GT (50 billion ton) release of Methane should trigger a major global extinction event. The likely point of origin would be the Siberian tundra but the entire permafrost regions of the Northern hemisphere and the Arctic Ocean are becoming unstable. LIGHTNIG STRIKES TRIGGERED THE GLOBAL EXTINCTION EVENT IN APRIL 2016. OVER 200 MILLION ACRES OF TUNDRA HAVE BURNED IN SIBERIA AND ONE FIRE IS LARGER THAN THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. VAST QUANTITIES OF METHANE GAS HAVE BEEN RELEASED INTO OUR ATMOSPHERE. The government has refused to provide honest Methane release totals for the Arctic / Permafrost region since 2011 and Methane Craters the size of small cities are appearing in permafrost regions. Species extinction rates have increased from one a week to over 200 a day. SO what will this mass extinction event look like for this species? There is more than enough Methane Hydrate in the Arctic and permafrost to raise the temperature of the Northern hemisphere by over 30 F for 100 years. Our forests and cities will burn. We will loss our habitat to grow food. AS far as the oceans are concerned, the 50 GT release will be followed with more of the same until the entire stores of Permafrost and Arctic methane is released and oxidized in our biosphere. Dead zones in our oceans will continue to expand and threaten this food source. Lots of people will starve to death. All the ice in the Northern Hemisphere will be gone. Most of our lakes will become anaerobic and sources of Hydrogen Sulfide gas. (A very deadly poison gas). All of the Nuclear power facilities, everyone of them will burn. Not the reactors themselves because the fuel rods will be removed, but all the cooling ponds will burn. 250,000 or 300,000 tons of spent fuel rods, maybe more will burn and atomize to radioactive dust. This dust will poison our biosphere for millions of years. Mammals do not do well in a radioactive environment. There should be no survivors. This process should be well on its way by 2020. BTW- Industrial hemp could have replaced oil as a source of our oil based synthetics technology in the 1930s. The founders of Marijuana prohibition were corporate competitors of industrial hemp. This swindle represents 30 % of our greenhouse gas emissions. So now we find out that banning Hemp played a tragic role in raising greenhouse gas emissions and killing this planet. I believe hemp prohibition has done enough to this planet and the global population, We can thank Wall Street, this corrupt government and the Drug War Nazis later. So let's not sit on our asses and let Wall Street and their puppet government kill us off. It is time to shave the wool off our backs, trade it for a good pair of fangs and learn to hunt in packs. If you don't fight to win they will kill you. It's that simple and you should have figured in out a long time ago.