Washington Votes Forum

Introduced in the Senate on January 12, 2011, amend and clarify the law on the medical use of cannabis (marijuana) so that qualifying patients and designated providers who comply with thelaw will not be subject to arrest or prosecution, other criminal sanctions, or civil consequences based solely on their medical use of cannabis; and that patients will have access to an adequate, safe, consistent, and secure source of medical quality marijuana. The bill defines, and clarifies the provisions related to prescribing, selling, and using medical marijuana. This bill provides that up to three persons may participate in a collective garden; health care professionals may not have a practice primarily for prescribing medical marijuana; health care professionals may only prescribe medical marijuana to patients with whom they have a documented relationship; the Department of Health must adopt rules regarding the amount of cannibis that may be kept at a single dispensary; advertising to the public by dispensaries is prohibited; the DOH must maintain a registry of licensees and patients; licensed dispensaries must be approved by local jurisdictions; and, licensed dispensaries must be non-profit organizations

The vote was 29 in favor, 20 opposed and 0 not voting

(Senate Roll Call 0 at Senate Journal 0)

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 And the dumbing down of WA state has begun.

I would have really liked to see the state qualify what medical conditions are required for the medicinal use of marijuana, not to mention that it is only legal to be sold though the state, rather than let the individual grow it.  Because wasn't that one of the arguments in the first place, other than the relief of pain, was how much tax this would bring-in to the state?

DK

RE-SB 5073, HB 1550...

Since both senate and house passed and SIGNED with Partial Veto by the Governor they need to fix those issues on the bill and pass it and make the 5073 into law...

Legislature have finished working on the Budget (excuse for not finishing the 5073 that was signed with partial veto).  They can fix and Sign the law, and start raising revenue for the WA STATE that has $4 Billion in Debt.

Since Budget cut they worked on, will make things a lot worse for the WA State in terms of Reducing the Debt and Not Creating Jobs, and Businesses Losing Customers because they have no job or money to spend, Legislature should complete this bill into law ASAP, then we can start creating jobs and raising revenue.

We are losing Millions of dollars each day this law is not Fixed and Signed into WA State Law.

People should go to Olympia and Protest against our Legislators until they Complete and Sign These Bills!.

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 And let us not forget, that those who passed this bill care more for californication than anything else.  There are pills made from pot that can do the same thing.  This would have been a better alternative, but it is not as plotically correct.  And let us not forget that if served in pill form that it would have been covered by some insurance rather than out of pocket. 

Also doing it this way makes it nearly impossible to collect taxes, so those that get high are doing so at not only your risk but expense...  At the very least the state could collect taxes to provide for those hurt by those who smoke the pot....

 

I think this bill is moot since I believe the people will vote this November to legalize pot. After all, we already have many who moved up here after they bankrupted California and they are mostly rich liberals who believe all vices should be legalized and funded by those paying taxes. Of course, so do all of the liberals in our state government.

 What we really need is the legislature to stop doing whatever drugs they are doing when they passed this and to focus on the issue at hand.  the state budget.

That being said.  The only people who should be selling this "legal pot" should be pharmicists, or state owned stores (that will keep those people who are unhappy about closing state liquor stores happy).  Just think WA can out californicate california by having state stores whose only interest is to deal in pot and pot merchandise.

 It's about time! Tax it to bring in needed revenue and relieve proson overcrowding of folks whose only crime is weed. Two problems solved.