If the CRIMINALS can't TAX it then forget the people it helps!
We are talking about people's LIVES here but they'd rather see these kids buy from the REAL DRUG CARTELS the state pharmacies where they can tax and profit thousand percent on each pill.
May they ROT in HELL!
Free medical pot program might be forced to close
By Molly Shen
Published: Dec 17, 2014 at 1:07 PM PST
SEATTLE--The clock is ticking for Washington's medical marijuana facilities. With no regulation like what we have in the legal recreational market, many medical producers and sellers have been ordered to cease and desist. A program providing free medicine is among those that could be forced to cancel its care.
Fifteen year old Stella needs daily medication to help control her Dravet Syndrome, a severe form of epilepsy. Medical marijuana replaced a much bigger drug cocktail, while helping control behavior problems and frightening seizures.
"Removing five medications, only taking one, she's in a much better place than she was on five medications, " said Stella's mother Amanda Stansfield. "She's so much more calm. School has amazing things to say. She's learning. She's doing math."
Stella's marijuana comes from the Leaf of Hope program at Seattle's New Leaf Enterprises.
They grow a plant high in CBD, a non-psychoactive compound that doesn't get kids high. The plant is ground, run through a special wash and cooked down to a thick hash oil.
Company co-founder Dax Colwell decorates his office with thank you notes from families who say they've seen a reduction in seizures. Some report a small drop, but others say their children have 75% fewer seizures. Talking about it brings Colwell close to tears. "It's pretty emotional to think you've helped someone in that way."
The help is not only medicinal. New Leaf provides the product for free to 30 families, saving them around $1,000 a month.
But the program is in jeopardy because the state legislature hasn't reconciled the unregulated medical marijuana market with licensed recreational shops.
That has individual cities like Tacoma threatening to close unlicensed medical dispensaries and Seattle looking to create its own rules.
New Leaf will only be allowed to grow recreational marijuana, unless the government creates a license for both. This week they launched a petition asking for legislative action.
"It seems like the cleanest transition, because now that we have a regulatory market in recreational, putting medical into that should be easy," Colwell said. "We're just talking about some rules now."
In the meantime, families like Stella's are caught in the middle. One year after starting medical marijuana, they're at risk of losing it. "We know the cannabis works. We absolutely know it works," Amanda Stansfield said.
Reality Check .........
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