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Why am I not surprised that the only timely and high quality reporting on this issue is coming from the Stranger? Keep up the good work.
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We could always try the fifth, and most intelligent option. A public initiative to overturn SB 5052 and bring back the spirit of I-502. Creating a single tier system for both medical and recreational cannabis is and always will be a bridge too far, and Inslee showed how much of a Progressive Democrat he isn't when he signed this into law (granted, everybody from his old district on Bainbridge Island remember when he was advertised as a Democrat Republicans could vote for).

This issue has nothing to do with cannabis and everything to do with corruption, collusion, and corporatism at the highest levels of state government.
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I doubt very much that a lot of the larger chains " Walgreens, CVS, etc... " would even carry it due to federal laws. Local
Chain Bartell's might? Independents might? Banks may not finance any entity that may get involved in selling marijuana.. not sure.
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@1 I rode the bus an hour and half in the freezing ass cold to sit in on this meeting, so thank you. Means a lot to hear a little positive feedback on the Slog every now and then.
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This whole issue is nonsense. As referred to near the end of the article, marijuana is both a recreational drug - like alcohol, only FAR less harmful - and it is PRIMARILY a recreational drug.

Much more harmful alcohol and tobacco are not on the scheduled drugs at all. - So even LESS should marijuana be. - Can we start making sense, please?
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has very recently recommended the decriminalization of possession and use of all drugs. This follows a withering critique of the negative impacts of the war on drugs on human rights across the world.

Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General.

Advance Edited Version, 4 September 2015:

25. The Special Rapporteur has observed that criminalizing drug use and possession has led to risky forms of drug use designed to evade criminal prohibitions, which has in turn resulted in increased health risks for drug users. Risky forms of drug use may include the sharing of syringes and injection supplies, hurried or risky injecting and the use of drugs in unsafe places. The preparation of drugs in a hurry, to avoid detection by law enforcement officers, may increase the risk of overdose, vascular accidents and infections. The Special Rapporteur has noted that criminalizing drug use and possession may lead to an increased risk of illness, including from HIV infection, among people who use drugs (see A/65/255, paras. 25-26).

29. The Special Rapporteur has identified many ways in which criminalizing drug use and possession impedes the achievement of the right to health. He has called for the decriminalization of drug use and possession as an important step towards fulfilling the right to health. He has noted that decriminalizing drug use cannot be equated with legalizing it. Decriminalization means that drug use and possession remain legally prohibited but that criminal penalties, if they are applied at all, are minor and of a noncustodial nature. Legalization, by contrast, involves no prohibition of the relevant conduct. (see A/65/255, para. 62).
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Hey Tobias, Good share i must say. Medical marijuana have been in news since a long time. Today people are voting to make the use of medical marijuana legal. People have understood its benefits and want to use the drug in a healthy way. Medical marijuana issue have been famous among many cities in US.

I recently read some good blogs on the legalization of medical marijuana in different cities. The blogs are listed below-

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/po…

http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-go…

http://adherence-corp.com/category/blog/

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