Welcome to Heartful Living Association
Delivery Service and Cooperative

THE HEARTFUL LIVING ASSOCIATION CONSTITUTION

1. The name of the membership based cooperative is the Heartful Living Association.

2. The purposes of the cooperative are:

a. 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, in accordance with our vision;

b. To ensure the availability of a supply of cannabis and cannabis products for medical purposes only that meets appropriate quality standards regarding unadulteration and sanitation and other requirements;

c. To provide a method for member patients to receive and use cannabis for medical purposes only, on written authorization from their physicians; (It also can be helpful to have a DHS state-issued ID card.)

d. To educate physicians, patients, politicians and the general public about the beneficial medical uses of cannabis and cannabis products;

e. 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, excluding the facilitation of production of pharmaceutical products;

f. To provide information as a result of these activities to enable the enactment or promulgation of or amendments to laws either Federal or State or Municipal, to legalize the production, distribution, use and possession of cannabis, in accordance with our vision;

g. To provide access to and information regarding natural therapies;

h. To participate in the approval, control and regulation of distributors and producers of cannabis and cannabis products for medicinal purposes, to ensure cannabis is accessible in a similar manner as other herbs, in accordance with our vision;

i. To provide for the lawful possession of cannabis and cannabis products for member patients upon prescription from their doctors;

j. 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.

3. No member of the cooperative or of the board of directors, in that capacity, shall request or receive from any member of the staff of the cooperative, or in any other way obtain any information which would reveal the identity of the clients of the cooperative.

4. The purpose of the cooperative shall be carried out without purpose of gain for its members and any profits or other accretions to the cooperative shall be used for promoting its purposes.

5. On the winding up or dissolution of the cooperative, funds or assets remaining after all debts have been paid shall be transferred to a charitable institution.

6. Notwithstanding clause two of this constitution, all purposes shall be organized and operated exclusively on a non-profit basis.

7. No part of the income of the cooperative shall be payable or otherwise available for the personal benefit of any proprietor, member, director, officer or shareholder, but a director or officer may be reimbursed for all expenses necessarily and reasonably incurred by him or her while engaged in the affairs of the cooperative.  

8. Paragraphs 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this constitution are unalterable.

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BYLAWS OF HEARTFUL LIVING ASSOCIATION
Bylaws

1 The bylaws of this association must contain provisions for the following:
(a) the admission of members, their rights and obligations and when they cease to be in good standing;
(b) the conditions under which membership ceases and the manner, if any, in which a member may be expelled;
(c) the procedure for calling general meetings;
(d) the rights of voting at general meetings, whether proxy voting is allowed, and if proxy voting is allowed, provisions for it;
(e) the appointment and removal of directors and officers and their duties, powers and remuneration, if any;
(f) the exercise of borrowing powers;
(g) the preparation and custody of minutes of meetings of the association and its directors.

2. Any changes to the bylaws must be voted upon by the members of the association.

Part 2 — Membership

3. The members of the cooperative are the applicants for incorporation of the cooperative and those persons who subsequently have become members, in accordance with these by- laws and, in either case, have not ceased to be members.

4. Any person, including a corporation, interested in the objects of the cooperative, may become a member by (a) applying to and being accepted by the directors for membership in the cooperative and (b) paying such fees, if any, as may be determined by the directors from time to time.

5. Each member shall uphold the constitution and comply with these by-laws.

6. A person shall cease to be a member of the cooperative:
(1) by delivering a written resignation to the secretary of the cooperative or by mailing or by delivering it to the address of the cooperative, or
(2) on death or in the case of a corporation, on dissolution; or
(3) on being expelled; or
(4) on having been a member not in good standing for 12 consecutive months.

7. A member who has failed to pay the current annual membership fee or any other subscription or debt due and owing by such member to the cooperative is not in good standing so long as the fee, subscription or debt remains unpaid.

8. A having an expired doctor recommendation.

9. The rights of voting, whether proxy or allowed will be determined at the first general meeting. There will be a manager/member of the association at all times who will be determined by vote. The exercise of borrowing powers and the appointment and removal of any directors or officers will also be determined by vote. The preparation and custody of minutes of meetings by the association will be made by an impartial party--preferably a hired, non-member or a member who is an attorney.

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