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Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news
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Bill to allow nurses, PAs to prescribe medical marijuana

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Lawmakers are considering expanding the state's medical marijuana law to allow registered nurses, physician assistants and naturopathic doctors to recommend pot to their patients.

Currently, only medical doctors can recommend medical marijuana.

Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, the bill's sponsor, argues that patients in rural areas have to drive too far in order to find a doctor to recommend the drug to them.

"I'm trying to visualize someone suffering from the ravages of cancer having to travel a few hundred miles to talk to a physician," Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle, said Thursday at a hearing before the Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee. "It just doesn't make sense."

Under state law, marijuana cannot be prescribed, but doctors may recommend it to their patients by signing a form that patients can carry with them as protection against arrest for pot possession.

Supporters of the bill say many who could be eligible to use marijuana don't have regular access to a doctor.

Joanna McKee, a co-founder of the Green Cross, a medical marijuana advocacy group, noted that nurses and physician assistants already provide significant levels of care to people.

"So if they are the primary person giving care, why not let them recommend it to people too?" she asked.

Law enforcement groups oppose the bill, arguing it would lead to more abuse of the medical marijuana law.

"Not everybody out there is using it as medical marijuana," said Bill Hanson, a lobbyist for the Fraternal Order of Police.

The bill's current wording does not mention naturopaths but Kohl-Welles said she wants to amend it to include them.

Dr. Robert May, executive director of the Washington Association of Naturopathic Physicians, told the committee that naturopathic doctors specialize in organic and natural medicines and therefore should be allowed to recommend marijuana.

Washington's medical marijuana law was approved by nearly 60 percent of voters in 1998, close behind California in the first wave of similar measures around the country.

Federal law does not recognize a legal medical use for marijuana. But under Washington's law, doctors are allowed to recommend marijuana for people suffering from "intractable pain" and some serious diseases, including cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

Marijuana patients still can be arrested and prosecuted, but may avoid conviction in state courts by proving a legitimate medical need.

Doug Hiatt, a Seattle lawyer who represents medical marijuana users across the state, said he hopes expanding who can recommend pot will demonstrate to authorities the legitimacy of the drug's medicinal purposes.

Elsewhere in the Legislature:

- The Senate Judiciary Committee, with the support of ranking minority member Bob McCaslin, R-Spokane Valley, approved a measure Wednesday to decriminalize the possession of 1.4 ounces or less of pot. There is a similar bill in the House.

Sen. Pam Roach, R-Auburn, said she was alarmed by the committee vote. If approved by the Legislature, Roach said the bill would lead to increased crime and more automobile deaths.

"This is a bill that comes right out of downtown Seattle," she declared. "Any time we have downtown Seattle dictating social mores across the state it's a problem."

McCaslin said the measure could save the state as much as $3 million a year in jail fees and court costs.

"The state is in the liquor business - which is one of the most harmful drugs on the market - the federal government is in the tobacco business, and we're putting people in jail for marijuana?" McCaslin said.

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The medical marijuana bill is Senate Bill 5798. The pot possession bills are House Bill 1177 and Senate Bill 5615.


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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: Louiscypher]
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Baby steps guys, baby steps.


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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: Rocker232]
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We need giant steps over here on the east coast...:peace:


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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: vinsue]
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too bad where i live 20 minutes from the washington border we have some of the most conservative laws in the entire nation. :mad2:


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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: vinsue]
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I second that!

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vinsue said:
We need giant steps over here on the east coast...:peace:


Agreed, I feel as though the rest of the world must see us as idiots. It boggles my mind how there can be stores in CA selling Marijuana and over here on the east coast its not even all decriminalized. Living in a country with two governments that often oppose each other is not only stressful, but I find it to be plain idiotic.


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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: Rocker232]
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Thank God it's completely legal in my house.  :bigjoint:  . . . :peace:


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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: vinsue]
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vinsue said:
We need giant steps over here on the east coast...:peace:



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twighead said:
too bad where i live 20 minutes from the washington border we have some of the most conservative laws in the entire nation. :mad2:




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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: vinsue]
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vinsue said:
We need giant steps over here on the east coast...:peace:


Seriously. We need to get medical in Ohio and let nurses prescribe it. Then I can just have my mom hook me up  :plot:


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Re: Washington is where it's at!! More exciting news [Re: F0SS1L]
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Hopefully if this passes it might set the ball rolling nation wide.


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1) Cars can hurt you.
2) You cannot fly.
3) It's never a good time to die.
4) Taking your clothes off will draw attention.
5) Keep your mouth shut at all times while in public.
6) Although you may see things that are not there, you won't NOT see things that are there.
7) Don't forget how to breathe.
8) Only carry: a house-key, some loose change, and your address in your shoe.
9) Nobody can tell that you are tripping until you tell them "I'm tripping".
10) No matter how fucked-up you think you are, you'll eventually come down.

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Entropymancer said:
twighead said:
too bad where i live 20 minutes from the washington border we have some of the most conservative laws in the entire nation. :mad2:





:rofl: :puke:


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