Help..Question on Laws...

Hello
I am a medical marijuana patient in WA state..
I recently found someone to be my designated provider (to grow for me) .... This person has a criminal background but is NOT on any kind of probation or parole. BUT he does have someone living with him who IS CURRENTLY on probation...So since he would be growing at is home would this effect either him or the person on probation or myself??? What are the WA State Laws on people on probation being around marijuana i guess....

Please help.... would be much appreciated.

Thanks...

That is a bit of a gray area. I would not deal with anyone that is a convicted felon but you may not be able to find that out without checking his ID at the sheriffs office. Legally there might not be anything that would happen to you but the normal behavior of law enforcement is to arrest you and let the courts decide. So I would try to be careful who you deal with and ask them what the law is to see if they actually know what the law is. It would be safer if they were a legal patient also, then they're somewhat covered by the MMJ law.

No gray area at all......The person on probation is at risk of returning to incarceration. I think, but not sure, that caretaker cannot be ex felon.

I would ask a WA State licensed attorney to be certain.

thanks so much....

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Originally Posted by daydreamer5118

Hello
I am a medical marijuana patient in WA state..
I recently found someone to be my designated provider (to grow for me) .... This person has a criminal background but is NOT on any kind of probation or parole. BUT he does have someone living with him who IS CURRENTLY on probation...So since he would be growing at is home would this effect either him or the person on probation or myself??? What are the WA State Laws on people on probation being around marijuana i guess....

Please help.... would be much appreciated.

Thanks...

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Section rcw 69.51A.050 is your answer...everyone around any medical grow is entitled to an affirmative defense to criminal charges if a medical grow is found to be valid.. in otherwords if any patient with valid documentation is at this location, everyone had better claim section .050 to get to a jury after being charged with a crime associated with marijuana..

See state v. otis in the legal section under Washington state.

Grow your limit and to hell with them. you have an entitlement under state law regardless of most people misinterpreting the state v. fry ruling...that case was in favor of every valid patient but, unfavorable to patients with dr.'s whom push the laws envelopes...i.e. write a condition not covered because of a profit driven motive instead of real medical condition covered under the act..

If any further doubts exist, call Aaron Pelley at law in seattle wa. i.e. expert in the MUMA..others will lead you astray for profit.