Violating Patient Rights

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Do they have the same rules at liquor stores?

Somewhat for alcohol, but yes for allergy medicine. If you are not a bazillion years old you have to show your id to buy tequila, and I guarantee that you are on video at a liquor store. You have to enter your Id into a database and be videoed at the pharmacy every time you buy Claritin-D. It ~is~ somewhat the same. Also alcohol is not a Schedule 1 controlled substance. Not saying that it should be, just that it is. Get that piece changed, and everything changes.

Are we guilty just by association with pot of tax evasion and black market activity and trying to beat the system every chance we get.

Of course you are, or so government [and LEOs] think. Remember that Marijuana is America's #1 cash crop. All of it, until just recently, was black market and untaxed. That's huge image to turn around. If there is marijuana around they assume something illegal is going on. It's wrong, but that's the way they think.

I say we are less harmful than any other liquor store or pharmacy who in my opinion are doing far more harm to society. There is certainly plenty of information to back up this opinion.

I say that too, but what we say does not matter. What matters in the legal and regulatory realm is the Schedule 1 drug classification.

Sorry to ramble but these rules have no legitimate basis in society. I am sorry that you seem to be trying to justify them.

Believe me, I dislike this crap much more than the average guy, just trying to be the Devil's advocate to point out the things we need to work on to get where we want to be.

Honestly, I believe that the DOR could care less about who the individual patients are. The want to leave that to the Health Department. The DOR's job is to oversee dispensary operations and keep things in line there. That is turning out to be an enormous task when you consider everything involved