Patients will always be arrested in WA.

So long as the law allows the law enforcement officials to be the ones deciding whether or not a patient is found to be in compliance. With no repercussions when their findings were faulty.

So long as a rule of 15 plants averaging 10 square feet each (according to the department of health, that's the average sized marijuana plant in WA and what's required to meet a 60 day supply), to presume what one needs to have a 60 day supply is over ruling the law which says you may have a 60 day supply, regardless of what that is in plant count or dried weight. As long as that system remains in place, patients will be arrested and/or having their property seized.


What we need is a law that says so long as you provide a recommendation from your doctor and your ID to an officer, they may not arrest you for any marijuana related offense covered by 69.51A.

That they may take a copy of your recommendation to determine if it is valid or not. If its fake, they can arrest you for that and whatever marijuana crime you committed.

If they have probable cause that you are doing something outside of RCW 69.51A (selling to non patients for example), that they may arrest you, but that if that arrest is not substantiated by overcoming all reasonable doubt that you were a legal patient (acting legally under the law), that the patient be granted the legal authority to reclaim $1,000,000 per "faulty arrest" (where a faulty arrest is defined as arresting a patient for not being compliant with RCW 69.51A when there was reasonable doubt presented that the patient actually was).


You do that and cops will never arrest a legit patient again. And any legit patient that is arrested will be quite happy when they cash their checks. If there is evidence which would cause a reasonable person to doubt the patient should be arrested, that patient should be able to sue that law enforcement agency or county or city or whoever for millions of dollars. That's the only way they will stop.


Without real teeth in law, patients will just be arrested and then not charged.