At some point next year, medical marijuana will finally be available to qualifying patients in the District. The problem? It might be too expensive for anyone to grow it or sell it, much less for anyone to actually afford to buy it.
A comprehensive set of rules and regulations published by Mayor Adrian Fenty's administration on August 6 outline a tightly restricted system where growing, selling and buying marijuana for medicinal use is subject to a number of bureaucratic loopholes. Amongst those are rules, regulations and fees for anyone looking to operate one of the city's five dispensaries (where patients will get the marijuana) and 10 cultivation centers (where the marijuana will be grown). (DCist)
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yea this will work!!!! NOT!!! Either make it legal 100% or illegal 100%. the system can't even control the controlled substances. Abuse across the board is out of hand. How dod they think they can control weed! what a joke!
ReplyDeleteIt's the pharmaceutical companies and attorneys who are lobbying to make this difficult, if not impossible. The lawyers have a golden goose with all of the meaningless small-time possession trials, while the drug companies can't produce a product as effective for so many maladies and don't want this one to drag down their bottom line.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there's the Fed; it can't back down on all the anti-marijuana propaganda it's been feeding us for eighty years.