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The name of the organisation is Bud Buddies |
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The purposes of the organisation are: |
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To establish a non-profit entity to facilitate the transition of the market for cannabis and cannabis products for medical purposes from an illicit one to a licit one, to ensure medicinal cannabis is accessible in a similar manner as other medicinal herbs. |
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To ensure the availability of a supply of cannabis and cannabis products for medical purposes only that meets appropriate quality standards regarding un-adulteration and sanitation and other requirements; |
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To provide a safe, friendly, supportive and secure environment for member patients to receive and use cannabis for medical purposes only and on prescription or on written authorization from their physicians; or through self-prescription where appropriate; |
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To educate physicians, patients, politicians and the general public about the beneficial medical uses of cannabis and cannabis products; |
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To raise funds and accept donations to encourage and facilitate research into all aspects of medical cannabis use, including, but not limited to, appropriate methods of use of cannabis and cannabis products for medical purposes including quality standards, potency, methods of administration, appropriate dosages, cannabinoid profile-symptom relief correlation, and all other areas of interest to medicinal cannabis using community |
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To provide information as a result of these activities to enable the enactment or promulgation of or amendments to UK law, to legalise the production, distribution, use and possession of medicinal cannabis |
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To do no harm |
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To participate in the approval, control and regulation of distributors and producers of cannabis and cannabis products for medicinal purposes, |
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To provide cannabis and cannabis products of a medicinal quality for members |
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To operate with and to serve as a working model of alternatives and solutions, which includes the utilization of consensus process and consensus decision-making as an alternative to hierarchical structures. |
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No member of Bud Buddies shall request or receive from any other member or in any other way obtain any information which would reveal the identity of the members of the organisation |
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The purpose of Bud Buddies shall be carried out without purpose of financial gain for its members and any profits or other accretions to the society shall be used for promoting its purposes. |
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On the winding up or dissolution of Bud Buddies, funds or assets remaining after all debts have been paid shall be transferred to an organisation with purposes similar to those of this organisation, or, if this cannot be done, to a registered UK charity conducting medical care or research |
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Notwithstanding clause two of this constitution, all purposes shall be organised and operated exclusively on a non-profit basis. |
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No member shall be remunerated for actively participating in the administration of Bud Buddies, however a member may be reimbursed for all expenses necessarily and reasonably incurred by him or her while engaged in the affairs of the organisation |
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