Building A Bridge of Unity With Cannabis Reform on 4/20/2019

By Cannabis Across Borders

"The City of Detroit shall not be a point of no return for "Marijuana Crimes" against the United States of America"  - Cannabis Across Borders

On April 18, 19, and 20th the first legal cross-border celebration of Cannabis will occur on the Detroit River.  Starting with a 3 day festival in Windsor Canada all the way to Detroit Michigan and back, people will have the opportunity to sample each others products. If you have a passport, enhanced ID and, no marijuana in your possession, you can freely go back and forth on the tunnel or the bridge. If you have a boat, good for you too! Upon entry into Canada, you must declare your medicine at customs and give it to them instead of getting arrested for drug possession.

The historic Detroit River was the goal line when it came to escaping from slavery. People swam and walked over ice flows to freedom. It is a popular spot for deportation of immigrants and cannabis criminals like Canadian Marc Scott Emery. Now it represents the future of North America in fighting the war on opioids with 2 new bridges, Cannabis and, a tunnel.

With a change in policy, people will be able to posses their medicine at ports of entry without arrest, fines, or conviction. Instead of a wall of division and prisons, we can build bridges of inclusion, with no delusion, ending the war on Cannabis at all ports of entry into Canada. 

Now is the time to petition Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to stop arresting American medical marijuana patients at ports of entry into Canada on humanitarian grounds. At the same time we must lift all penalties for international travel by expunging all marijuana crimes of Canadian citizens entering the United States of America. Especially Marc Emery because he was kicked out of America through the Detroit/Windsor Tunnel like Dolemite from San Antonio Texas with $150 dollars in cash, a new pair of Nike shoes, and a gourmet meal in handcuffs. American citizens like Charlo Greene of Alaska, would not be arrested and strip searched at Canadian Ports of Entry.  

One Day There Will Be, BC Bud at the Duty Free
Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau

We applaud Canadian union Laborers International Union of North America Local 625 (www.liuna625.ca) for writing medical marijuana into their bargaining agreement to fight the nationwide Opoid epidemic. 

If you feel that you are going to get stopped at Canadian ports of entry you must declare that you are a medical marijuana patient at the customs booth. Your medicine will be confiscated and you will be allowed entry. Another benefit of declaration is that if thought you cleaned out your car and they find a roach, depending on the Border Security Officer's mood at the time, you will not be arrested, strip searched, fined and sent back to Detroit. 

Website: Instructions for Declaring Med. Marijuana at Ports of Entry into Canada

Instead of fines and deportation, a duty tax of $20 declared at customs will help the State of Michigan pay off the loan for the new Gordie Howe Bridge. This will settle out of court the compensation to the owners for the new Ambassador Bridge re-construction with a rail line, foot traffic and bike lanes. The USA and Singapore must quit dragging their feet at the United Nations by continuing to postpone the recommendations of the World Health Organization on rescheduling cannabis from a drug with no medical use to a medicine and a manufacturing product.

We the People have told you all, to Free The Weed and, F- the Wall!
(Where "F-" is a variable in the statement)
Time to quit the BS at the United Nations in Vienna and Vote YES for Cannabis

Otherwise, these products belong at the duty free shops at Detroit/Windsor Tunnel and Ambassador Bridge because, the majority of the citizens on both sides of the Detroit River accept the use of Marijuana as a medicine. 

Therefore the members of Cannabis Across Borders are requesting of the Canadian Government a 70 Gram limit of declared medicine at customs subject to duty tax of no more than $20 on the Ambassador Bridge and Detroit/Windsor Tunnel.

Website: Forbes Medical Marijuana Delay at the United Nations
Website: www.news.medicalmarijuanainc.com UN Marijuana Rescheduling

UN Commission on Narcotics and Drugs Punk Out On The Cannabis Vote

By Cannabis Across Borders

On Monday March 18^th, 2019 in Vienna Austria, the United Nations Commission on Narcotics and Drugs decided to kick the can down the road by agreeing not to vote on recommendations by the World Health Organization to decriminalize medical use, possession, and manufacturing of products made from the Cannabis plant.

The vote was rescheduled with the support of the delegates led by the United States, Singapore, Russia. The official reason is that the International Narcotics Control Board needs more time to figure things out. With strong objections by delegates from Uruguay, Canada, Mexico, Israel and, other nations in support of the change, the actual reasons are the interest groups like big pharma and, for profit jails  who want to continue status quo, have excessive influence on the process.

While youth and law enforcement officials are being injured and killed on Fentanyl worldwide, this and other opioids are freely accepted at ports of entry. The same excuses of youth exposure and a threat to society brought by the opposition, seem overwhelmingly contrary to the evidence provided by medical professionals on the benefits of Cannabis. Now that the vote has been delayed AGAIN, the time is now to get the delegates to amend the documentation to include a 70 gram personal use exemption at ports of entry for member nations who’s citizens use Marijuana as their medicine.

Stop the delay at the FDA!

As for recreational use in member nations, cannabis products should be available at duty free retail shops at ports of entry. In the INCB documentation they talk about how US States like Colorado, Alaska, Michigan and others are poorly regulating Cannabis use and sales. This despite the fact that states like Michigan made millions from Cannabis business transactions.  There was no respect given to member states like Uruguay who went recreational like Canada. Delegates from China, United States, Russia and Singapore who are clinging to the Harry Anslinger theology of reefer madness shut down the entire process with procedural rules to extend the voting for an additional 3 months. This is the second and third time that this group has done this at this conference.  

@CND_tweets unanimously adopts procedural decision to postpone the consideration of @WHO cannabis-related recommendations, to provide MS with more time to consider the recommendations @UNODC @UN_Vienna #CND2019 #CND62 pic.twitter.com/22HKADFQub

— CND (@CND_tweets) March 19, 2019

The INCB can run but they cannot hide from the inevitable truth. The WHO has said they were sorry and, we want to make up to the mis-information that was previously reported about Cannabis related products. Border security means allowing medical patients who use Cannabis all rights and privileges as a human right of declaration of medicine at ports of entry.   Duty taxes if any should not excessive to a point of harming low to moderate income individuals. Citizens in member nations must allow foreign nationals legal redress in their respective courts of law and promote commerce and trade with cannabis imported and exported between member nations.

Citizens Want Cannabis in America

Therefore, citizens in member nations must elect and employ elected officials who have their best interests at heart. Especially in nations like Canada, Uruguay, Mexico, and others in the world that want to finally put and end to this international war on the cannabis plant. Because by the next conference in Vienna at #CND2020 and #CND63, a vote must be taken in the affirmative to atone for the lies and fake news being spread about Cannabis.

Urgent Message for International and Domestic Medical Marijuana Patients at Ports of Entry

By Cannabis Across Borders


It is the position of the United States of America to oppose the recommendation of the World Health Organization regarding the re-scheduling of Cannabis products at the United Nations before the Commission of Narcotics and Drugs on Monday March 18th, 2019 in Vienna Austria.  This is contrary to the popular vote of American Citizens in 30 states and, the passage of the Farm Act law by congress in 2018. 

Border Security means protecting patients at ports of entry...

Your voice is needed to tell your representative at the United Nations about how you feel that the United States of America should vote YES on all recommendations by the World Health Organization to reschedule Cannabis including plants and extracts.  This vote will direct the legislators in Washington DC to remove Cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act by making House Resolution 420 the law.

Let Weedom Ring

Please make your comments and upload supporting files to the FDA  before March 14th, 2019 11:59pm EDT by using this link. (Click Here to Enter your Comments) due by Thursday March 14th, 2019 @ 11:59p Eastern Standard Time 

Tell your US/UN Representative to vote YES vote on Agenda Item 9(a) at 62nd Session 3/18/2019 from 3-6pm. Findings of the UN Social and Economic Council Committee

 Agenda of the United Nation Office of Drugs and Crime Commission on Narcotics and Drugs 62nd Meeting in Vienna Austria


Thank you, 
Cannabis Across Borders






The Official Position of the United States of America regarding Cannabis 

At this time, it is uncertain whether the above notification from WHO of recommendations for proposed scheduling action on cannabis and cannabis related substances will be acted upon by 62nd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (from 14 to 22 March 2019). The Bureau of the 62nd Commission is currently considering whether to postpone voting on the cannabis-related recommendations until the reconvened meeting in December, or the 63rd session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, March 2020. If voting is deferred to a later date the comment period will be reopened.

Although WHO has made specific scheduling recommendations for each of the drug substances, the CND is not obliged to follow the WHO recommendations. Options available to the CND for substances considered for control under the 1971 Psychotropic Convention include the following: (1) Accept the WHO recommendations; (2) accept the recommendations to control but control the drug substance in a schedule other than that recommended; or (3) reject the recommendations entirely.

Cannabis, also known as marijuana, is a plant known by biological names Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica. It is a complex plant containing multiple cannabinoids and other compounds, including the psychoactive substance THC and other structurally similar compounds. Cannabinoids are defined as having activity at cannabinoid 1 and 2 (CB1 and CB2, respectively) receptors. Agonists of CB1 receptors are widely abused and are known to modulate motor coordination, memory processing, pain, and inflammation, and have anxiolytic effects. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States.

The principal cannabinoids in the cannabis plant include THC, CBD, and cannabinol. These substances are controlled in Schedule I under the CSA. The synthetically derived single pure stereoisomer, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (also known as dronabinol) is the active ingredient in two approved drug products in the United States, MARINOL (dronabinol) capsules, also available as a generic, and SYNDROS (dronabinol) oral solution. MARINOL is controlled in Schedule III, while SYNDROS is controlled in Schedule II under the CSA. Both MARINOL and SYNDROS are approved to treat anorexia associated with weight loss in patients with AIDS, and nausea and vomiting associated with cancer chemotherapy in patients who have failed to respond adequately to conventional treatment.

CBD is another cannabinoid constituent of the cannabis plant. In the United States, one CBD-containing product, Epidiolex oral solution, has received marketing approval by the FDA for the treatment of seizures associated with two rare and severe forms of epilepsy, Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome, in patients 2 years of age and older. On September 28, 2018, the Drug Enforcement Administration placed FDA-approved product Epidiolex to be marketed into Schedule V of the CSA. Currently, CBD that is not contained in an FDA-approved product with less than 0.1 percent THC is controlled as a Schedule I substance under the CSA. CBD is not specifically listed in the schedules of the 1961, 1971, or 1988 International Drug Control conventions.

FDA, on behalf of the Secretary of HHS, invites interested persons to submit comments on the notifications from the United Nations concerning these drug substances. FDA, in cooperation with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will consider the comments on behalf of HHS in evaluating the WHO scheduling recommendations. Then, under section 201(d)(2)(B) of the CSA, HHS will recommend to the Secretary of State what position the United States should take when voting on the recommendations for control of substances under the 1971 Psychotropic Convention at the CND meeting in March 2019.

Comments regarding the WHO recommendations for control of Cannabis and Cannabis Resin; Dronabinol (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol); Tetrahydrocannabinol (Isomers of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol); Extracts and Tinctures of cannabis; Cannabidiol Preparations; Preparations Produced Either by Chemical Synthesis or as Preparation of Cannabis; under the 1961 Single Convention will also be forwarded to the relevant Agencies for consideration in developing the U.S. position regarding narcotic substances at the CND meeting.

Dated: February 25, 2019.

Lowell J. Schiller,

Acting Associate Commissioner for Policy.

[FR Doc. 2019-03662 Filed 2-28-19; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4164-01-P

FDA (USA: www.regulations.gov)