Quote Originally Posted by gypski
Say your get your authorization from a doc in the box who specializes in mmj authorizations with patients with a valid medical history and they put an expiration on your authorization (not in the law, they don't expire). What if you then go to your regular doctor, who wouldn't sign around the time your expiration date is coming on your doc in the box authorization, and the regular doc finds your conditions are still the same, you can carry on without fear from LEO because expiration's aren't part of the law. Your regular doctor would be forced to confirm your qualifying condition. It would put the chicken doctor on the spot to where they have to confirm your condition is real. And you get around the doc in the box's yearly charge.
Actually the way I read 69.51 RCW it says that IF there is a expiration date on the doctors recommendation ,then the recommendation will expire on that date, and you will need a new rec. This is up to the doctor whether or not he/she puts a expiration date. If a person has a life long condition which qualifies them for a MMJ recommendation , I don't think the Doc should put an expiration in , but it is a way for the doc. to make some dough.