HSC
11362.5
Implementation and Compliance:
Non-compliance, inactivity, confusion, and collusion
Tod H. Mikuriya, M.D.
California Compassionate
Use Act of 1996
(Health &Safety Code 11362.5) Section 1 C
Slide 4
Nine days after
Proposition 215 became California law a closed whine-in at the White House
Office of Drug Control Policy 11-14-1996 to block it. (FOIA document Pat
McCartney)
California Criminal Justice Attendees
Former Drug Czar General
Barry R. McCaffrey
accords Dr. Mikuriya international recognition
and threatens California physicians
Senator Vasconcellos, AG
Lockyer, and Santa Clara County DA Kennedy (1996 Washington DC McCaffrey
meeting), 1999
Medical Marijuana Working Group
Unidentified prison
industrial complex lobbyists who showed up for the last open
Lockyer-Vasconcellos working group to
inform the group the proposed implementation and compliance was DOA
Slide 9
Senior Assistant Attorney
General John Gordnier
Attendee
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
secret meeting 11-14-1996
California Narcotics
Officers Association
CNOA Tentacles of
Influence
More CNOA Tentacles
Sanctions Against
Physicians
Medical Board
Investigation and Prosecution of California Doctors
Steven Gossett: Fake
Patient
Actual Sonoma County Sheriff Deputy
“former DEA” dual certified
Presented at an Oakland clinic. Left his wire off for fear of discovery
Medical Board
Investigative and Prosecutorial Abuse turns immunity of physicians from
sanction on its ear. The cover story is “standards of practice”
Proactive Responses
Medical Board Reform
Statewide Audit
Implementation and Compliance
Implementation varies
from county to county and even from city to city
For example the cities of Oakland and Newark, both in Alameda County.
On the other hand, the
city of Newark is Noncompliant
Remedial Civil Actions
Reasons to be Hopeful
Thank You