By Ben Horner
Happy New Year to all my activist friends. Over the last two months VGIP volunteers picked up the phone and called their Michigan lawmakers to express concern about the Draft language that we released in the November issue of the MM Report, which seeks to merge the medical and recreational laws together. Thank you in a big 420 positive way for preventing this from being introduced in lame duck. But the fight is not over.
The Michigan Marijuana Regulatory Agency, led by Brisbo and the big cannabusiness interests, will be trying to introduce their bill to change the marijuana laws in Michigan this year. Front man Rick Thompson, who has been sucking Brisbo’s balls, is the biggest cheerleader of this potential legislation. Wearing his sheep’s clothing, Thompson is painting this shitty legistlation as a great thing, by highlighting indigenous people’s rights and public consumption locations as being great opportunities. However the beauty is in the details, and from what the VGIP sees these are caveats. Horse trading and pork added to the bill that won’t really help who they think it will.
Rick Thompson is well known for being a liar, infiltrator, and total sleaze to his marijuana people. After being raided at Big Daddy’s compassion club, and tanking multiple publications that he wrote for and ran, Rick Thompson has been reduced to a blogger and podcaster that pretends to be a voice of the cannabis community. If you don’t know his history of backstabbing others in the community, and his history of lying and infiltrating, you might think he’s a nice guy. Brisbo sure thinks Rick is worth supporting.
The VGIP is asking everyone to connect with lawmakers and watch very carefully what Thompson and Brisbo try to sell you. Reports are that big commercial grows are already working with law enforcement to bust the caregivers that were supplying them just a few months ago. Be aware, be vigilant, and be prepared, because they want your homegrows to go away.
