http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/05/16/potential-pot-paucity-portends-program-problems/ the gay community's news source Fri, 24 May 2013 14:51:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/05/16/potential-pot-paucity-portends-program-problems/#comment-48700 DC’s Problematic (Medical) Pot Program | Borderstan Mon, 21 May 2012 12:41:42 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=40896#comment-48700 [...] Lee at the Washington Blade takes a look at problems facing DC’s medicinal marijuana program. Even proponents of the [...]

]]> http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/05/16/potential-pot-paucity-portends-program-problems/#comment-48653 Samantha Sat, 19 May 2012 17:42:36 +0000 http://www.washingtonblade.com/?p=40896#comment-48653 The “strategically cautious plan” by Catania is an absolute joke. Congress approved our original ballot initiative in February of 2010. Nothing further needed to be done. The “strategically sensitive planning” was done to hinder the program because Catania is a conservative prohibitionist. DC residents voted to allow sick patients to grow their own supply of medicine in the privacy of their own home, they never voted for 95 plant cultivation centers or for-profit dispensaries that export their money to California, you can thank David for that. If you are sick person, this is information that only you & your doctor need to know and the original ballot initiative provided this basic level of privacy. Instead, sick patients are now going to have submit their confidential medical information to the District government, pay $100 every year to have an ID card, and have a GIANT BULLS-EYE on them when they leave their dispensary. His misguided law even prevents delivery services and if you don’t like the one dispensary you registered for, you’ll need to pay the District government another $100 for a new ID card. The truth is that his law was written to hinder medical marijuana’s progress in DC because the pharmaceutical interests he represents cannot make money off the marijuana plant. Had Catania thought about prioritizing the needs of the sick in DC, the patients would have obtained their medicine in the winter of 2010, and not, as David suggests, by January 1, 2013. If there are no plants in the ground soon, there will be a new ballot initiative next year to fix Catania’s horrible, disingenuous law.

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