Please, please, please help these bills pass, These bill will add much needed protections to those with serious medical problems who are allergic or have bad reactions to regular pharmaceutical, .

Washington state is sending its sick, disabled and elderly through the court system costing these already discomforted people in some cases 10,s of thousands of dollars just to prove their medical necessity when they already hold the piece of paper signed by their doctors that the state requires.

As is our current medical cannabis laws seem to benefit the police and court systems more then the people they were meant to protect, that is the sick and disabled.

To help emphasize why we need this bill passed you should do some searching in the news and you will see that police are out with sub-machine guns kicking in patients doors, knocking elderly people down to the ground and holding guns to their heads and shouting at them over such little evidence as “suspicious smells and suspicious fan noises observable outside the residence”

Don’t believe me? The Seattle PI has one such story:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/429222_pot29.html

This is only one of the reported cases, this happens to often by our over zealous law enforcement agencies who seem to have rather little in the way of common sense, respect for individuals civil rights , or humanistic compassion in these regards.

Cannabis has been a medicine documented in effective treatment of many illnesses for over 5000 years, pharmaceutical Marinol is not the answer, it is not the same thing as whole herbal cannabis, Marinol is missing the important cannabinoid makeup found in natural whole cannabis that helps with muscle spasms, nausea, severe pain, etc without making the patient feel worse, the other cannabinoids like CBN CBD help create a balance in that is not available in Marinol, whole herb medicines like this are needed for people with bodies that are already damaged by and sensitive to synthetic chemicals.

The sick and disabled should not have to stress and worry about the possibility of facing one of these military styled swat raids of their families and homes followed by court and prosecution and expensive legal defense for using and growing a garden herb that their doctor authorized. Not in a free society anyway…

Thank you again Senator Kohl-Welles for your common sense and compassion in your work on these bills, Thank you also Senators Delvin, Keiser, Regala, Pflug, Murray, Tom,
Kline, McAuliffe, and Chase Thanks to you also Representatives Moeller, Fitzgibbon, Billig, and Santos.

I pray that the rest of the legislature will have the wisdom to see the sense in passing these bills.