i am a staunch advocate for medical cannabis. but i was involved in the 2005 medical care of this act and involved with the working group before we formed as a task force and we have served diligently. we attended all but one meeting and involved in three of the subcommittee's. i also asked the rotating chair at my last meeting and we received -- we submitted to the annual report. we look forward to any questions you may have. >> any questions? thank you for your time serving on the task force. >> thank you. >> hello, thank you for your consideration today for my reappointment to the medical cannabis task force. i am here representing americans for safe access which is the largest organization which is working towards advancing therapeutics research and loss. i have been dedicated to this since its inception and i worked there five years continuously. i also support the san francisco and sonoma chapters. i have a wide array of work experience and has given me an issue. you can see that in a letter that i submitted. i look forward

the united states congress passed hr 1983, the state's medical marijuana medicate debt -- medication act of 2011, which was introduced by representative barney frank. we also are calling upon the federal government to pass hr 1985, the small business tax equity act of 2011, which was introduced by congressman pete stark. we're also calling upon the federal government to follow the lead and take leave from people like mark leno, leland yee, and others who have called for the protection of the rule of law as enacted by the voters of the state of california. we also encourage the president of the united states to enact legislation requiring federal law enforcement to respect state law when it comes to medical cannabis. i think in these times, it is very important for us in the city and county of san francisco to take a clear stand in supporting patient rights, and i urge support of this resolution. i also want to take this opportunity to thank the medical canada's community and all the activists that have rallied behind this very important plot -- cause. i also want to think my colleagu

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-- not chemo medications.'m in a clinical trial now, trying some other drugs, hopefully that will put me back into remission. >> is there something else going on here? i'm sure you talk about it with your colleagues. it's not a novel problem. we heard about this sort of thing before. it seems to be getting worse, the ama calling it an emergency. is there a peek behind the curtain in terms of what you're seeing? >> it's probably a perfect storm. we have very few drug companies manufacturing these, these are out-sourced to companies. even common drugs used in breast cancer and ovarian cancer are in short supply this is a problem. we get a list of drugs on a monthly basis that will be on a short supply and we have to make alternatives and alternative plans. we have a committee in our hospital that decides this, decides which drugs will be substituted. >> it's hard for me to ask this almost, you are both here, but, i mean, you wanted to prescribe a different medication, that was not available for renee. so you wen

he also picks them up so they can have their medication or whatever.otally against this because i have nothing to do with cannabis. i did not think it was true that it did what it does for people, but i am totally a believer now, because it does. it helps people feel better, helps them get through what they have to get through because it helped him. it was the only thing that kept me sane when i had to deal with what i had to deal with with him. it kept me from going crazy. i am here on his behalf, and i think he would be the greatest for this job. thank you very much. one more thing -- he has no problem getting in because he comes here three times a week every week. supervisor kim: thank you, mrs. watkins. any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed during my understanding is we will be hearing this item again on thursday, november 17. if you have spoken today, you certainly do not have to speak again. i will not be calling your name. we may have follow-up questions, and then we will be forwarding our recommendation to the full boa

and the right of patients to access medication they need. i believe it is important for us in this time for the city and county of san francisco for the board of supervisors to be clear that we do support the rights of patients to have access to medication. with that, i ask for your support. the rest, i submit. supervisor avalos: just a couple of items for introduction. one, at long last, the advisory committee for the balboa park station. the plan was approved in january 2009. i think it was my first piece of legislation because i had inherited from my former supervisor from district 11, and since that time, there have been a lot of discussions about how to proceed with land-use issues surrounding the station, and there has been a lot of need for the community to have greater oversight along with greater entities involved around the station including bart, caltrans, muni, dpw. this body will be meeting quarterly to provide input. it will be staffed by the mta if we do approve this, and it will be a great benefit to district 11 and people wh

didn't and since then we've turned to other medications. not chemo medications.'m in a clinical trial and trying other drugs. hopefully that will put me back into remission. >> is there something else going on here, doctor? i'm sure you talk about it with your colleagues. this is -- not a novel problem. we've heard about this before. it does seem to be getting worse, the ama calling it emergency. is there a peek behind the curtain? >> probably a perfect storm. we have few drug incumbents manufacturing these. these are outsourced to single drugs -- some that are hard to find, a drug used in breast and ovarian cancer in short supply. this is a problem. we get a list of drugs that are in short supply and have to make alternate plans. we have a committee in our hospital that does this, has to decide which drugs will be short. >> it's hard to ask because you're both here, but you wanted to provide a different medication that available. you went to plan b. it's not plan a. plan a is what you wanted to do. excuse me for asking, but is that inferior care or less than sta

i am here to advocate for patients for medical marijuana for one purpose. i provide hospice for people who are dying and who are scheduled to die. i survived that, and i want to help those who are dealing with new debt issues and perhaps make them more comfortable, not so they have to accept it, so they can survive because i survived. there is no reason they cannot survive. and being a son of a veteran who also survived cirrhosis of the liver, there are a lot of illnesses that i have dealt with in my past and that i know about. i know a lot about heart disease because i was born with heart disease, and i know a lot of issues that can be served with medical marijuana in that aspect. that is my goal, to help in that part. sorry, i am nervous. supervisor kim: it is ok. you are doing great. is there anything you wanted to add about your interest on the task force? >> the people involved brought me to city hall and educated me on the people involved with it. when i first started, i was only involved with my family, and that is just a bunch of nonsense. i got to

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do you stop taking medication early. coming up the movement to get you to get your future. . >> 62 out in pwi today. that's right where we normally be. we're back with not 70s but some weather i think you'll like. . >> a new national medication campaign called scrip your future. the campaign is designed to educate consumer as importance of taking your medication as directed. that results about one third medicines led to hospitalizations. >> medication adherence is such a simple thing yet everyday for many reason, either because patients can't afford the medication because patients don't understand the importance of medication adherence. people are going without life saving medication and they're dying unnecessary. >> baltimore is one six markets that are being targeted. >>> one of the top trauma doctors right here in our state is sharing what has learned. dr.thomas. his experience is that the program already shock trauma, it trains the airport personnel to treat traumas in war zone areas. >> one of the most gratifying th

and major medical? major medical, boyyyy!he doctor ♪ ain't that enough for you? ♪ there are things major medical doesn't do. aflac! pays cash so we don't have to fret. [ together ] ♪ something families should get ♪ ♪ like a safety net ♪ even helps pay deductibles, so cover your back, get... ♪ a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aflac! [ male announcer ] help protect your family at aflac.com. [ beatboxing ] >>> i have a very close personal relationship with the cannabis plant. for me, cannabis, it was love at first sight. i knew intuitively it wasn't an evil plant. it felt good. it felt right. >> illicit love, it's a beautiful thing. you can call steve d'angelo a modern day medicine man working in the perilous gray area between federal law and state law. he and many others are part of the growing medical marijuana industry which is estimated to be worth nearly $2 billion just this year. along with his brother steve, he runs harborside health center in oakland. 94,000 registered patients this this business. they are the largest legal retailer of can

medic and staff sergeant erin gibson loves it here.'s a 4'11" single mom from ohio, nicknamed mini medic. >> we meet people on some of their worst days and our job when that happens is to try to keep their worst day from being their last day. >> reporter: she's been deployed twice to iraq, once to egypt and now twice to afghanistan. her parents take care of her 10-year-old son, elijah. does he understand why mommy's away? >> he has come to the understanding of why i'm doing what i'm doing. >> reporter: never before have medics like gibson had such advanced medical technology that they can get to the front line so quickly. these helicopters are stripped down mobile emergency rooms. >> you can do an ekg on here. this is the oxygen saturation in your blood. >> reporter: if a u.s. is soldier makes it to the hospital , he has a 90% chance of surviving. it's saturday, and gibson is preparing her equipment for her latest assignment and what will end up being a long and dangerous night. an ied has exploded near the pakistan border. severely wo

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he has put many long hours in different projects and the medical cannabis issue. as far as he goes, he is very well qualified. basically, how they survive like we all have. all of the candidates, -- and the other one that i did not mention, the zero have my support. the usher in the afternoon, supervisors. i wanted to take a moment to -- i wanted to take a moment as well, to advocate for marquis ausby. in the times that i have wanted to be able to do things that were associated with what he was doing, i have seen him put forth a lot of commitment. he spent a lot of his own personal time, i can attest to that as well as its neighbor. and just about everything that he does, he is surrounded by trying to advocate for medical marijuana patients. in light of that in light of the fact that i know him to be very dependable and a very transparent, i would like to recommend him for that seat. i think his qualifications and the work he has been done -- that he has done have been more than demonstrative. he would be the best logical choice. thank you. >> i just wanted to say

i'm not bipolar at all. >> this is footage of ke'onte trying to come off these medications. and this is ke'onte today. ♪ he's in honors classes in school and he got one prescription that heals beyond imagining. ke'onte has been adopted. >> now you're part of the family. >> reporter: which takes us back to brooke, remember her? she, too, has a permanent hug, a mom, a dad, a home. >> yeah, you hug all the anger out, right? she just hugs and hugs and hugs and gets all the anger out. >> so, who is responsible? and by the way, your taxpayer dollars are paying for this, medicaid pays for these drugs. well, tomorrow, i will question the federal drug administration and sharyn alfonsi goes out to track down doctors prescribing these medications. >>> and now, we turn to wall street, and a question. is it possible santa came early this year? bringing the kind of super sonic surge we haven't seen in this country in more than two years. the dow up nearly 500 points, which means the average investor pocketed $4,000 before the bell rang today. and it comes with anticipation of some good ne

referendum on medical practice, medical malpractice, and referendum on pharmaceutical drug utilization, and certainly sections of our culture, if not across the board. how much do you think this verdict will ripple through those three levels, martin? >> i think jami was referring to on my broadcast just now -- it's yours, actually, but the overwhelming, the overriding issue here is about the ease of access to medication that people can get. i come from a country in europe -- i'm sorry to make a point about this -- >> your accent gives it away. >> where we have a national health service. you can't order drugs in this way. you can't ring a doctor and say, can you give me a prescription? it doesn't work like that. you can't be a celebrity and pay huge sums of money in that way to acquire medication. we're talking about a doctor who received gallons of propofol, and these were sent to his girlfriend's apartment. they didn't even go to his doctor's office. i mean, come on! >> elaborate on that, jami. really, probably the biggest issue here is the ease with which powerful individuals can acq

they need. -- patients access to medication they need. research has demonstrated therapeutic benefits to the use of cannabis. many in california have benefited from that. that is the reason in 1996 the voters in the state of california passed a law that allowed for the use of medical cannabis. here in san francisco, its use is very important to specific communities. i will speak for the lgbt community we have in san francisco, with a large number of hiv-positive individuals. many of those individuals are benefiting from medical cannabis. it is about human rights, a civil-rights issue. we are asking our federal government to respect state laws and the will of the voters, and to give access, properly regulated, to medication. on the issue of proper regulation, i am for proper regulation. we have rules that were instituted a number of years ago. supervisor mirkarimi played a key role in making that happen. we have become a model for how to do this, how to regulate this industry, and that is the solution. this is about giving patients access

it wasn't just medical school school stuff or doctor stuff. and the man who read about that across the ocean shortly after it was reported was a man named william halstead, and that's probably not a name that is familiar to you. he became the greatest surgeon ever. he was then the boy wonder of new york. he was working at bellevue as what is now columbia college of physicians and surgeons as well as several other hospitals. he had brilliant ideas about wound healing, about antisepsis and operating under a clean circumstance which seems, well, yeah, of course, but back then surgeons were wearing old frock coats smeared with blood and pus, they were draping or dripping their elbows into the surgical wound, interns would hold sutures in their mouth and then hand it to them. so it brings up the old vaudeville joke, you know, the operation was a success, but the patient died because they got super infected and died. so halstead was always looking for perfection in his operative craft, and he read the paper about its anesthetic properties. i've got

how do you think of that from the medical point of view? >> well, it's been very evolving, the idea of new addictions. you know, the old definition was not only an exogenous substance, but a substance that you physically withdraw from. so alcohol and heroin, you'll physically withdraw to the point that you could die, particularly alcohol. cocaine was not considered addictive long ago because they didn't see physical withdrawal although there's quite a lot of psychological and physical withdrawal. marijuana when i was in medical school was not considered addictive because they didn't withdraw. well, they do. it stays in the fat cells, and you withdraw over a much slower period of time. but that has changed. and now even behaviors like hypersexuality, gambling, too much playing on the internet. you know, i had a medical school professor used to say everything in moderation, including moderation. and i think we all have to be careful not to unleash the addict within. and there's many things -- too much exercise. so it's really an evolving puzz

that medical says you're going to. say i came to try to get some medical records in and security said it's close i couldn't believe it was closed and i will when i went in the security guard told me that if so for sale and all they basically doing here is fill movies now man i was shocked came believe that this is what's going on now and i was a great hospital this is the last house but i was in in two thousand to when i sat you know. it was a sunday afternoon around twelve o'clock in just two cars came in and it was a big shoot out and i just happened to roll by and i caught a bullet there hit my spine i came to my legs i'm paralyzed you know if i was in for these people that were here i don't think i would have made it the way i made it because i was a little kid i was seventeen years old when this happened to me i go to school and i go to college you know and if it wasn't for them i went forward i even drive now i do everything i'm independent and it's for these feet and legs they help nobody else you know somebody