Bills Story
I am 56 years old and have been living with a chronic stomach disorder. I use medical marijuana and it relieves the daily disabling pain associated with my disorder. I consulted a physician and they spoke of the optional treatment of medical marijuana. I decided to try it, but did not know how to obtain it as I knew I couldn’t just go to the local pharmacy. This started my venture into finding a medical marijuana collective / dispensary. There were pamphlets at the doctor’s office and sites on line, but little information about the facilities themselves. I decided to try a dispensary in the City of Anaheim located between a bong shop and a massage parlor. Once inside, I found myself in a very shoddy room run by young adults under 25 years of age. After having my recommendation verified, I was escorted to a back room. On one side there were several young people indulging, and the other side had a jewelry counter with several containers of medical marijuana. The young gentleman behind the counter stared at me with red eyes and asked me what I would like. Having no idea what I needed, I pointed to one of the containers and said, “I will take some of that one.” I was never so nervous and apprehensive; I just wanted to get out of there as quickly as possible. It was a horrible experience that I never wanted to go back to. My second experience (in search of a better place) was in the city of Lake Forest, located in an underground parking facility. As I walked up to the door I noticed many young adults on skateboards going in and out. There were bean bag chairs lying around with young people sitting in them. Overall, this experience was twice as bad as the Anaheim experience.
My third experience was in the city of Dana Point which was more controlled and professional. Still, I had very young adults waiting on me. While I was sitting and waiting to be called in to get my medication, I noticed an elderly lady in her late 70s walk in. She was shaking nervously and had a terrible look of fear in her eyes. I could see that she was scared. After the experiences I had as a 56-year-old male, this was understandable. The young adult took her to the back room and got her the medication. I commented to the young man that she looked very old to be there. He related to me that she was on many medications and her doctor wanted her to try medical marijuana to ease her off some of her other medications. This got me to thinking: Why does a senior citizen have to go through this!? When seniors are the ones who benefit most from the medication, why do we have to seek out shoddy outfits to get it from? Why do we have to deal with people that could be our grand- or great grandchildren? Why do we have to go through this kind of humiliation? After talking with many seniors and others, we came up with the “Golden Angels Seniors’ Collective”.We would like to keep it in the community. Its members would be seniors in the community. We would be located in or by a professional medical building We would have a system to give or at least discount to the seniors who cannot afford to have it We would have security equal to or better than that of a current pharmacy that carries narcotics and most of all, we would like to provide a way for convenient, safe access to medical marijuana, with dignity.
The Golden Angels & You
As a collective we recognize our responsibility to each and every member. We want to be able to provide the very best in organically grown medications. We want to make sure that we are following the laws to the letter thereby keeping all members safe from legal reprisal. We want to teach and aid our fellow members with their cultivation techniques and we want to be a phone call away in a case where issues arise out of fellow members concerns. Plainly put a collective is the culmination of the combined strengths and abilities of the group. We become one entity with regard to our purpose. We have developed a growing method that has produced our requirement time after time and we are willing to show any member how to become more active within the collective by either growing thru bud stage ( Flowering ) or by helping other members who are less active by visiting them and by making sure they have what they need to maintain their medical needs.
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What is a Marijuana Collective?
As a representative of a collective, members certify that they are qualified patients suffering from serious medical conditions and have obtained recommendations or approvals from licensed physicians in the State of California to use medical cannabis (marijuana) to treat this medical conditions. Copies of the recommendations and identifications are attached near our medical grow. As qualified medical marijuana patients under California law, we choose to associate collectively or cooperatively to cultivate marijuana for medical purposes. All members of our medical marijuana collective will contribute labor, funds, or materials, and all will receive medicine. We form this collective in accordance with California Health and Safety Code § 11362.775, which states: According to Orange County guidelines, one (1) patient may cultivate at least__12__ mature plants & _6_ immature plants and possess at least _8_ oz./lbs. of processed medicine. A packet containing this document along with copies of our recommendations and identifications will be posted at our collective garden as proof of shared ownership. This packet may also be carried by a representative in the event that medical cannabis or related products must be moved from one location to another. For instance: after a harvest our representative must deliver the allocated percentage of the harvest to members who maybe too ill to drive, he may at this time be carrying more medication than is allowed to (one) patient. The same representative must also obtain starter plants for our garden, in this case he may have in his possession the allowed plants for our entire collective garden. This representative has been entrusted by each of our collective members below to act as a proxy on our behalf.“Qualified patients, persons with valid doctors recommendations, and the designated primary caregivers of qualified patients and persons with identification cards, who associate within the State of California in order collectively or cooperatively to cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, shall not solely on the basis of that fact be subject to state criminal sanctions under Section 11357, 11358, 11359, 11360, 11366, 11366.5, or 11570.”
GASC INC is a legal registered non profit that offers solutions for Medical Marijuana patients in accordance with California Health and
Safety Code Sec. 11362.5(B)(1)(A) & 11362.7(H) Prop 215 & S.B 420
