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EMERGENCY! Notice of Emergency Rulemaking Hearing-State Board of Health-Tuesday, November 3, 2009 at 10:30 a.m.

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Today, I am angry. Medical Cannabis literally saved my life and every single day it helps me live pain-free, but everywhere in this state there are people trying to take that from me. On 7 News last night I caught a story regarding the issue and was appalled at some of the behavior caught on tape from the 7 news team. Undercover investigation caught the employees at Herbal Remedies coaching people on how to get their medical marijuana card. One girl goes so far as to say something about going to Wikipedia to find out headache symptoms in order for someone to fake the medical need for marijuana. Disgusting. This type of behavior is disgusting and is undermining the sick people who need this medication and the many people incarcerated because of it’s legal use. Not only should that girl be fired- to help Herbal Remedies save face- but I suggest they do a major overhaul of their training system to prevent this type of coaching from happening again. 7 News also sent one of their very own staff into a dispensary to get a doctors recommendation, for an earache. SUCCESSFULLY. I dont believe they said the dispensary in question, but showed signs of being in Cannamed’s office- the place that has been ethically questioned by everyone in this community and the Fed’s themselves. I do not fault people who use Cannabis to treat an earache, I know it certainly would help with the pain, but Why would any doctor EVER give a recommendation of Medicinal Cannabis to a patient for the use during an earache? One answer- Greed. Medicinal Cannabis is helping thousands of people in this state but allowing the abuse of this already shaky system has led us here, a place where many issues need to be addressed and a crack down needs to happen. I believe the doctors and dispensaries are at fault here and should be given the freedom to decide if they would really like to help people, or they would like to sit in an office and write Medical Marijuana recommendations all day until they go to jail. An investigation on these so called “doctors” needs to be done and I for one, will be happy to see it happen. Of Course people are going to want to fudge the facts and get their cards, smoking marijuana is illegal without it! The dispensaries that staff a doctor or have one in-house to fill out your paperwork while you shop, are the biggest part of the problem. The doctors writing hundreds of recommendations a week, should be investigation and punished accordingly. They are NOT following the law and they are screwing it up for those of us that are. Do I think everyone should have their card? NO. I think Cannabis should be legalized and treated like any other medication. The step to true legalization is not the criminal activity of lying and falsifying documents. If cannabis helps you, Talk to YOUR doctor. Mostly these are educated people with good intentions, but if your doctor refuses to discuss it with you, seek out the advice of someone else but remember, you need to have some sort of relationship with this doctor, in order to be following the law. Getting a medical recommendation from a potshop doc is dangerous to you, dangerous to them, and hopefully dangerous to the clinic where you met them. As I am doing my Dispensary Reviews, I found out that I am dangerously close to many criminal enterprises and for that, there are several dispensaries I will refuse to even walk in to. Criminal Activity will kill this movement if we do not take a stand as patients. Perhaps I ought to thank 7 news for the Herbal Remedies review, I certainly won’t be going in there with my money or my legitimate Medical Cannabis license. And Clearly, I do not recommend for you to do so either.

© 2009, AntiSoccermom. All rights reserved to the original author unless stated otherwise.