

2017 Legislative Session begins January 9th are you ready?
I wonder if in this session anything will be done to help the medical cannabis patient. The Law from 1998 is no longer what it was. So much has happened to patients who require more than the amount allowed recreational users. Read the home page here to find out what happened and the laws that were passed.
In years past patients were called fakers, the illicit market and the people who would return to the black market. But in reality, patients with serious illnesses have relied on medical cannabis to save their lives when western medicine could not help, when their doctors sent them home to make arrangements, or to those small children who suffer with diseases only helped by cannabis. Those are the ones affected by what has happened in Washington state. This state forced patients to find the only thing that worked for them, anyway they could. For patients it isn’t about getting high or recreating, it is about having a better quality of life when their doctors have given up on them, it is about being able to walk to do housework or get through a day of work without pain, it is about a child not having seizures for as many days possible.
Lets hope that this year Washington state finds compassion in it’s heart because so many people have suffered and are suffering because of the greed that this state allowed to happen by listening to paid, corporate, big pharma lobbyists. Patients do not have time to wait.
Share this:The essential elements of providing your own medical medical marijuana, including:
* Food Feeding cycles. Macro and micro-nutrients
* Lighting PAR , cycles, using power efficiently
* Growing mediums. Soil, non-soil, hydroponics
* Air: controlling temperature, humidity, CO2, ventilation
*Efficiency: selecting the correct equipment, what gauges and
measuring tools to own, continuous quality improvement
* Controlling pests safely.
* Harvesting; The basics of flushing, drying and curing.
* Cost: $20 Class time approximately 90 to 105 minutes.
* Max class size 12 people.
The event page can be found here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1173075846106174/
Contact: 206 618 0576. ajkingsbury@hotmail.com
What will be done with he money?
$15 of every $20.00 received will go to John Worthington’s case. The explanation of the case is here:
https://www.gofundme.com/
by Denise Harrington, July 5, 2016
(Patient, and One of the People for Medical Cannabis in Washington State)
Washington cannabis patients need safe, consistent and affordable access to the medicines they use. They need the person overseeing cannabis policy for the DOH to be knowledgeable about medical cannabis and one who has patients best interest in mind. Ms. Weeks is a legal person. Her function is to keep the DOH out of legal trouble and to defend them if they are sued. She has the DOH’s best interest in mind not the health and best interest of cannabis patients.
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HB1360 – Concerning marijuana, useable marijuana, and marijuana-infused products in public.
By Meagan Holt, January 18th, 2016
I am writing today about a bill, HB1360 whose status by resolution and introduced in present status on January 11th. It is in regard to the public consumption of cannabis and cannabis products. While I agree that smoking anything should not be allowed in any public place. I have to disagree with the section about cannabis products.
My daughter, a 3 year old cannabis patient with severe disabilities, suffers from a rare genetic disorder called Zellweger Syndrome. This disease has caused her to become completely dependent on a feeding tube, therefore all of her medications must be administered through her tube. In late January of 2015 Madeline began having seizures and they immediately became life threatening. Within a couple months she appeared to be close to the end of her short life. This was when we found whole plant cannabis oil.
Maddie went 8 days completely seizure free when we first began cannabis therapy. Throughout this year she has continued to make improvements and has even gained skills back such as saying ma and signing mama and Dada. Cannabis can’t cure Madeline. But it can and IS giving me more time with her. QUALITY time where she is awake and interactive and knows mommy is here. She is in and out of the hospital frequently due to her complexity for various issues including: needing blood products, to requiring surgical intervention for large kidney stones. So the time that she is at home is very precious to us. One thing Madeline has enjoyed since she was a baby is going outside and feeling the breeze. Madeline takes 2 scheduled doses of whole plant oil and on days where she is having pain or her body is under stress we will give 1-2 small extra doses or “stress” doses.
Why should we be forced to stay inside because of fear of a police officer seeing us in public giving Madeline cannabis oil and then I am put in jail for giving her medicine? I can give her all of her other medications in public. Maddie should be able to experience life and all the beautiful things in it. Including the zoo, the park, frozen on ice if she so chooses. But without the law being changed I am criminalized for giving my baby medicine in public. I ask that there be URGENT action taken so all of the cannabis patients in Washington can enjoy the wonders of our beautiful state inside and outside.
All the best,
Meagan Holt
Cannabis registration by the state
Written by Michael Wilson, November 16, 2015
Two legislative sessions ago I learned that someone had inadvertently released the numbers of some confidential license plates to a private citizen. Fortunately the citizen who received those numbers did not make them public.
The state cannot guarantee that it can protect the confidentiality of a list of registered cannabis medical patients under any conditions. If the new federal administration which gets elected in November of 2016 decides that it intends to crack down on cannabis and reverse the work toward legalization from what we have seen in recent years, the likelihood of names being released to law enforcement will increase.
In the present circumstances registering cannabis patients will violate the rules against self-incrimination. The Fifth Amendment protects patients from having to provide information about their personal activities. Because the federal government still classifies cannabis as a schedule I substance a person’s name on the registry could be used as evidence against the patient in a court of law.
According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives having a state issued medical marijuana card places the patient in violation of Gun Control Act of 1968. Federal law makes no exemption for medical patients who use marijuana. In this case the registration itself may result in the patient losing his or her second amendment rights. If the patient has to go to court over their cannabis use and is found guilty a gun charge could be used to lengthen their sentence.
The Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which reads “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people” protects my right to choose what medical treatment I wish to use and the idea of providing the state with that information by way of registration is an act that may discourage people from using treatments that are not approved by the government.
However let’s go back to the beginning of the prohibition of marijuana which we prefer to call cannabis these days. In the 1930s the prohibition was placed on the plant not because any scientific information had come to light informing us as to how dangerous it was. Instead the prohibitions were built around rumors, lies, innuendo and old fashioned gossip. How can the people of any nation trust the law when the law is based on such poor information?
Laws based on rumors, gossip and innuendo are not much different than a witness testifying against someone in a court of law and committing perjury in the process. A lie in the courtroom may get one person falsely convicted but lies during a legislative committee hearing to support a bill may get hundreds convicted for activities that should never have been illegal in the first place. One lie in court can land a witness in prison but one lie during a legislative hearing might get a witness who supports the legislation a promotion.
Finally Washington State’s Constitution requires the state to protect individual rights. Many people believe the state constitution protects an individual’s right to use the medicine of their choice. If people are to be deprived of that right then the state has to allow for due process as described in the Washington State Constitution which reads,”Article I… All political power is inherent in the people, and governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, and are estab-lished to protect and maintain individual rights”. And “SECTION 3 PERSONAL RIGHTS. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”.
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Patients and the new Law –
September 10th, 2015 – by CannaSarah
Patients continue to struggle in their tireless efforts to save their medication. Many are still in the dark about new laws introduced by I -502, House Bill 2136 and Senate Bill 5052, and the changes that are already starting to take place in process and distribution of medical cannabis.
There are many people across the state, patients and non-patients alike, who are unaware of the damage that these laws are causing and will further cause to the medical cannabis community. As a patient and an activist I have spoken to many people personally such as one person, Uri Cohen asks, “how are the new laws hurting patients?” It seems as if all the lies that were told in order to gain support for these bills has stuck with the general public as facts.
With dispensaries across the states being told shut down in small batches, it gives the illusion that access is still widely available. Patients in larger cities such as Seattle and Tacoma are yet to be informed that they too will face the same problematic system of rules. When asked about dispensaries that have already been forced to close, a patient, Sarah Jane Robertson states “Call the Kent dispensaries and Issaquah – all now shutdown. THC in Kent is now delivery only.”
With the lies that were told to patients, they are under the false belief that their medicine is safe and will remain available. Yet patients such as Chris Bornstedt is already fearing the worst, saying, “My card (authorization for medical cannabis) expires and I will be unable to get a new one.”
Public media has ignored the cries & pleas for patients voices to be heard. They continue to be onesidedly opinionated towards the recreational market and silent on the effect the laws have had and will have on patients.
Other public outlets and organizations such as Seattle Hempfest, NORML, and ACLU apparently have turned there backs on patients leaving them to fend for themselves against the greedy wolves of the recreational industry.
http://www.cannalawblog.com/washington-recreational-marijuana-laws-hb-2136-roundup/
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/marijuana/patients-fear-medical-marijuana-may-not-fare-well-with-new-rules/
http://app.leg.wa.gov/BillInfo/summary.aspx?bill=5052&year=2015
http://app.leg.wa.gov/billinfo/summary.aspx?year=2015&bill=2136
The People For Medical Cannabis In Washington State would like to thank Green Xena for all her work on this blog. She has moved on to other adventures. While her stories here are amazing she will be missed.
We will keep this page up and running so that people know what happened during the last session.
Only Now we will be adding a different writer. Thank You CannaSarah for joining the team! Her articles will be continuing on on this Blog!
Thank You Green Xena WE LOVE YOU!!!
Share this:Quotes by John Davis (Chair of Seattle Hempfest) speaking to fellow cannabusiness entrepreneurs regarding bill 5052:
“People are saying 5052 is the death of medical. No, not in my opinion… MEDICAL WAS ALREADY OVER, IT WAS JUST A MATTER OF HOW. 5052 actually gives us an extended life onto cleaning up the system and putting it where it needs to go, so it was something that really needed to happen.”
THE EVENTUAL PLAN IS TO ELIMINATE MEDICAL CANNABIS:
“The DOH is supposed to rule on what is the definition of medical cannabis, and they can define medical cannabis as pretty much anything that they want.”
When asked by a fellow ganjapreneur if defining medical cannabis could potentially backfire by not being taxed the same as recreational since medications aren’t taxed in WA, which would be a “win” for the medical community, Davis replied,
“The DOH could totally take a ruling and say that only things that are 20% CBD and under 0.3% THC, that is it, that is medical, AND THEN ALL ACCESS TO ANYTHING OUTSIDE THAT BASICALLY CEASES TO BE.”