In Washington state, most dispensaries make you give them a copy of your state issued ID and your medical recommendation/card. This puts the patient in a precarious situation, having to decide if it's safer to buy meds from drug dealers or from retail locations which can get busted and send your info to the feds.

Do the farmers markets also require this?
Do all retail shops?

Seems that if liquor stores and pharmacies can give you drugs/medication with a visual verification then there would be no problem with doing it the same way for medical marijuana, but I haven't seen any written law either way.
seattlegreens Reviewed by seattlegreens on . DEA hit Washington.... DEA Sweeps Across Western Washington With Dispensary Raids - Toke of the Town Somewhere in this article it's mentioned that only a dozen or so Federal officials participated in the raids....the rest were State sherriffs department deputies.... As usual this is almost always the case....but why??? Aren't state officials supposed to enforce state laws??? It's just wrong for the Feds to mess up what's working.... Not only are they disrupting the local economies by performing these raids, Rating: 5