What don't you like in SUBSTITUTE SENATE BILL 5073

"a health care professional may not be arrested, searched,
6 prosecuted, disciplined, or subject to other criminal sanctions or
7 civil consequences or liability under state law, or have real or
8 personal property searched, seized, or forfeited pursuant to state law,
9 notwithstanding any other provision of law as long as the health care professional complies with subsection (2) of this section:

(vi) Include any statement or reference, visual or otherwise, on the medical use of cannabis in any advertisement for his or her business or practice; or"

Cool does this mean they will stop allowing Doctors to advertise all the drugs they push? Seems there is a way bigger problem with script drugs.

Seems this section is uncomplete...PART VI
16 LICENSED PRODUCERS AND LICENSED PROCESSORS OF CANNABIS PRODUCTS
They fail to mention how many plants a licensed producer can produce...According to the rest of the Bill...45 is Max....

Page 9 of E2SSB 5073

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(2)(a) A health care professional may only provide a patient with
valid documentation authorizing the medical use of cannabis or register
the patient with the registry established in section 901 of this act if
he or she has a documented relationship with the patient relating to
the diagnosis and ongoing treatment or monitoring of the patient's
terminal or debilitating medical condition

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Unless "ongoing treatment or monitoring" can be interpreted as once a year this will mean more out of pocket medical expenses. Medical cannabis recommendations are not allowed by my health care organization.


Page 26 of E2SSB 5073

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For the purposes of this subsection, displaying cannabis,
including artistic depictions of cannabis, is considered to promote or
to tend to promote the use or abuse of cannabis.

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Too vague and likely unconstitutional.


http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/bil.../5073-S2.E.pdf

at the caclnics we offer a non expiring authorization we feel like if you are qualified than you should not have to keep coming back every year and paying and proving that you have the same medical condition. We are proposing a non expiring authorization and proposing that those who have already received one be granfathered into this.

SSB 5073 has a lot of really great things in it but there is at least one paragraph that screws me and most Medical Marijuana patients that are on disability, low income.
I already pay for Kaiser medical who will never write an authorization for me,
and with the elimination of clinics that deal solely with Medical Marijuana, I'll never be able to afford a "documented relationship" with another doctor on top of my already 'more than I can afford' health care costs. I've been on disability for 20 years and it certainly won't help my life any. Thanks to those of you supporting this bill who can afford it...

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23 (2)(a) A health care professional may only provide a patient with
24 valid documentation authorizing the medical use of cannabis or register
25 the patient with the registry established in section 901 of this act if
26 he or she has a documented relationship with the patient relating to
27 the diagnosis and ongoing treatment or monitoring of the patient's
28 terminal or debilitating medical condition, and only after:
29 (i) Completing a physical examination of the patient as
30 appropriate, based on the patient's condition and age;
31 (ii) Documenting the terminal or debilitating medical condition of
32 the patient in the patient's medical record and that the patient may
33 benefit from treatment of this condition or its symptoms with medical
34 use of cannabis;
35 (iii) Informing the patient of other options for treating the
36 terminal or debilitating medical condition; and
37 (iv) Documenting other measures attempted to treat the terminal or
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1 debilitating medical condition that do not involve the medical use of
2 cannabis.

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This is precisely why I-1149 needs to get on the ballot and passed by voters, so we don't have to put up with a bunch of bureaucratic BS to use a PLANT for our medicine needs. I mean really, who goes to a doctor for their homeopathics? And no one needs to. It is safe enough that a doctor's recommendation or prescription should NEVER have to be a requirement to utilize it.

FREE THE PLANT!
LEGALIZE IN 2011!
YES ON I-1149!

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Originally Posted by wannahelp

at the caclnics we offer a non expiring authorization we feel like if you are qualified than you should not have to keep coming back every year and paying and proving that you have the same medical condition. We are proposing a non expiring authorization and proposing that those who have already received one be granfathered into this.

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The reason that you have to go back each year is because you have an ailment that is being treated. If you stop going to the doctor for regular check-ups, the "law" might look at you as healed and therefore no longer need to medicate. Remember, this is a medicine being used as a treatment. And ever since prescription drugs came out, doctors ALWAYS had you return to find out how the medicine is helping you. People should not mind having to go in ONE day out of three hundred sixty five...... Just saying I don't mind having a professional doctor update my medical record each year......

But I have Kaiser (corporate insurance) who won't discuss Medical Marijuana so now I'll have to pay
another private doctor 'out of pocket'.