Friday, February 13, 2015

The Birth of CannaTV

THE BIRTH OF CANNA TV:



In Michigan, November 04, of 2008 was a memorable day in the State.  It was on that day that 63% of the voting population said yes on a proposal that would allow the citizens inside the State of Michigan an opportunity to seek a physician that would allow them the opportunity to choose cannabis to treat their chronic ailments.  The band wagon was put on the road and people fled to this wagon in masses.  

The medical marijuana cure is what the people voted for.  They envisioned a way for people to take care of people.  What happened inside the State of Michigan was something similar to the Gold Rush Days of Mining.  People were opening up dispensaries left and right.  

These dispensaries made cannabis available similar to a pharmacy with its stockade of synthetic toxins.  Except these dispensaries were charging between $15 and $20 a gram for cannabis.  This was high way robbery.  Who can afford those prices?  The other options were growing your own cannabis, or finding someone to grow it for you. 

We understood that dispensaries were not for everybody as we could not afford those prices.  However, when they started playing with the laws in Michigan is when we knew we had to stand up and do something.  Even if  standing up meant putting ourselves in the face of the public to get it done. 

In 2010 the prices were at an all-time high, Joe Cain finally said enough is enough! He put on his thinking hat and created the Medical Marijuana Farmers Market and this was the first farmers market cooperative inside the State of Michigan.  This cooperative brought caregivers from all across the State into the Market on Saturdays and Sundays every week.  

These caregivers would adopt new patients, and sell their overages to other medical marijuana patients for $5 to $10 a gram.  Do you see why the dispensaries despised the Farmers Market?  People were lined up for two days to get inside the market.  The 

Caregivers inside the market helped everyone regardless of their ability to pay.  The Farmers Market was so successful helping patients out that an organization was created to help poor patients get recertified. This organization called the Citizens for Human Rights.  The people felt it was their right to harness the natural healing that is found inside this plant.

10 to 20 buses gathered people from across the State ushering 1,000’s of people to the steps of the Capitol Building in Lansing, Michigan.  This is what the magazine “High Times” revered as the largest cannabis protest ever held inside the State of Michigan.  The airplane overhead had a banner on it that read “RECALL BILL SCHUETTE AND GOVERNOR SNYDER.”  It was an eventful day of powerhouse speaker’s that inspired, and reminded people of the real reason we were gathered are standing at the steps on this day.    We had contacted every single media outlet that we could send a press release to. 

Every single media affiliation was invited and that meant all radio, television, newspaper that we could get to come and witness this great gathering. 
It was an awesome protest of epic proportions the activists that met on those steps that day were proud of the accomplishments that were made.  Until we sat down and watched the news that night.  The media created a sabotaged mess.  What the media portrayed was a gathering of hippies, mostly youth, and not very many sick people at all.  These youth were defending sore arms, and stiff necks.  We had Senator Rick Jones publicly say that this is exactly why we must end the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.  The kids are using this stuff.  Jones has been quoted in the media saying things like “The Michigan voters were duped into thinking they were voting for marijuana for senior citizens in great pain or perhaps suffering from cancer and cancer treatment and needing marijuana.” MichiganRadio.  The media also grossly underestimated the number of people we had on the steps that day.  They called it about 500 protestors.  The truth is that we had thousands.

Disheartened because we had cancer patients, MS patients, Post traumatic disorder survivors, chronic and debilitating pain patients and the media went through and picked out the least qualified of the group and put them on front and center.  

This bad media was the start of the end of the Michigan Medical Marijuana Act.  We contacted the media and offered them our documentation from the protest.  We had hours of video, and qualified medical marijuana patients.  We were baffled as to why they would choose to use these kids to represent the crowd that was there.  

It was almost as if they were setting us up to fail. 
Renee Wolfe was one of our most dedicated protestors.  Renee suffered with Multiple-sclerosis and the inclement weather was very difficult on her but she was always there.  Why didn’t they interview Renee? 


We emailed, visited the media Facebook pages asking them to retract the story that they sent out and use one that represented the protest.  We were exiled from their social network. 

Frustrated but determined to get our message out.  Joe Cain, Breezy Love, and the rest of the 
Oil Shiner Crew put their heads together and decided that what we needed to do is create our own media source.  

Then we can post our news, our views, and our message will get put across exactly how we want it to be seen.  We wanted everyone to know about the medicinal compounds and healing found in cannabis.  

This was more than getting us high.  This medicine was curing what ailed us.  We wanted more and the government was determined to give us less. 

We sat down and brain stormed as a team.  We needed to be compelling, truthful, and blatantly honest about exactly what we are up too. 

This is how CannaTV was born.  In two years we have grown to a successful media outlet that exhibits over 600 informational videos, and has an active viewing membership of over 628,000 members and growing. 

We host a weekly blog talk radio show in order to inform the people about everything we know about medical marijuana and why protecting the medical part of marijuana is so important.  


CannaTV discussions can be found in several chat groups on Facebook. 

Including our very own Facebook Group:  CannaTV on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/314596101986897/

The CannaTV mission is to protect the rights of the people in our community that believe cannabis is a medicine that heals and not a drug that kills.  We believe that the war on drugs is a war on humanity.  We believe that medicine, herbs, drugs, alcohol, food, all of these are health care issues.  

These health care issues should not be department of correction issues that require prison time.  Nobody should go to jail unless they harm other people.  Let our health insurance deal with our health problems.  We believe that everybody should be allowed to grow their own medicine.  

If you cannot grow your own medicine you should be allowed to find someone to grow it for you.  We believe that community is unity, and healing starts with compassion and humanity.  We attack the war on drugs with chat communities that promote alternative medicine choices. 

Facebook Chat Group Real Activists Against Synthetic Drugs:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/412217135460722/


You can join me on Facebook: Breezy Love: https://www.facebook.com/VivianRockofLoveCurl?fref=ts

You can also join me on Google by sending me an EMAIL: BreezyCannaTv@gmail.com

Join the Google Hang out every Monday night: https://plus.google.com/115903971097159158472/posts


Thank you for reading!  

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