That is just one example of why I will never sign my name to any permit or licensing list...
some one is gonna give you up eventually, if it saves their ass...You can bet on it...
Feds cannot really do shit with the names with more and more states allowing medical or recreational, the list is getting too long even if they went state by state it would clog up the court system and bring things to a standstill, just have to go to trial. That doesn't mean it wouldn't stop people from getting busted and harassed, plants and equipment taken but that would be another lawsuit the rock is collecting moss now.
Attorney General Sessions is currently attacking legal and medical marijuana. This is fact. The Boston Globe is a very high standard and credible publication. Sessions is doing everything he can to get back on the good side of our fearless leader. I wouldn't be so dismissive.
I misunderstood. Apologies.
You're right, it's a mess.
LEO at all levels, Federal, State, and local, have technically had access to the medical cannabis registry since 1998 in Alaska.
The potential misuses for such information include obstacles in firearms transactions, security clearances, job applications, specific licensing, and more.
I can't point to a specific case where LEO's access has created issues in Alaska (I'd bet fairly heavily there are some), but it is/was ironic that in one of the states in the Union with some of the strongest protections for privacy (Article 1, Section 22 of the State of Alaska Constitution), and with medical records supposedly being so private anyway, that such access was written into the law.
It's the mega-information age, and Goliath wants to know all he can, about all he can, and to store it all digitally.
George Orwell could've written even better fiction had he waited around a while and simply watched the Gov's moves.
If you really want to get a grasp on what the government is up to with healthcare, you don't have to look further than 'Meaningful Use', look it up if you want to. The government has been forcing all medical providers to get all patient records into standardized digital formats (EHR), and has been paying providers big bucks to do so. Basically at the flick of a switch, the government will have access to all medical records.
On another note, what about all the stupid people sending in their DNA to find their family history. If they would ever read the waiver that they are signing, and actually understand it; they would never send in their DNA. **don't forget boys and girls, your DNA is not only yours, it is your parents, and more importantly your children's DNA as well** Once they have the DNA, they own it forever, for any thing they want to use it for!!! It says that right in the release form! They are putting together a database that I see them selling access to. Can you imagine how much law enforcement would pay to be able to find out what family a sample came from?? But way worse than that, what about if the insurance companies (soon to be the federal gov.) decide to start using it to decide who gets insurance and how much they pay; all based on the type and number of possible genetic markers for different diseases.
People will probably think I have my tinfoil hat on today, but I'm telling you.... all this data is going to bite you in the ass, sooner than you can ever imagine.