April 28, 2011 in City

Spokane-area pot shops being raided

Chelsea Bannach and Thomas Clouse The Spokesman-Review

Outside the THC Pharmacy pot dispensary, marijuana activists chant in protest on Perry St. in Spokane, Wash., Thursday, April 28, 2011. The DEA raided the dispensary while most dispensary owners and pot activists were at a meeting about how to handle DEA raids.
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Several medical marijuana dispensaries are being raided this afternoon across Spokane.

On the South Hill, federal agents shut down THC Pharmacy, 1108 S. Perry St., witnesses say. The operators were being detained by agents. Spokane Police have been positioned outside the pot shop.

A small band of protesters also gathered outside the shop, chanting “DEA go away” and “we’re patients, not criminals.”

“They just walked in the door and said ‘you’re busted, everybody sit down’,” said Cassandra Wright, a THC Pharmacy employee and mother of Charles Wright, who co-owns the shop with John Vivian. “They walked in with their chests all puffed up and in numbers.”

She said authorities seized computers, phones, receipts, patient files, marijuana, books and the laminator.

“They took everything,” said Wright, who works on the computers in the shop. “They took my personal property like I’m some kind of drug dealer.”

Other shops are being targeted as well, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Tom Rice.

“I can’t say how many places,” he said. “Because of its ongoing nature, we can’t comment any further. We don’t expect to release anything more today.”

However, medical marijuana advocates say agents also raided several other dispensaries: Evergreen Medical, a shop at 12004 N. Market St; Club Compassion, at 1004 East Bridgeport Avenue; Human Connection, at 5315 North Market Street; and Medical Herb Providers, at 306 North Freya Street.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office sent dispensary operators notices earlier this month advising they shut down or risk federal enforcement action. Many of the approximately 40 medical marijuana dispensaries reportedly complied but others remained open for business.

Today’s clash marks the latest development in an ongoing battle over medical marijuana.

Washington voters overwhelmingly approved medicinal use of marijuana in 1998, but the ballot measure left open the question of how doctor-approved users can legally obtain their pot. Advocates say the state law allows for dispensary operations under its “caretaker” provision but a Spokane County Superior Court jury rejected that argument last month in the first drug-trafficking case of its kind to be taken to trial in Washington.

Additionally, federal prosecutors note that while state law allows for medical use of marijuana, federal law still considers all marijuana possession and use illegal.

Meanwhile in Olympia today, Washington’s leading constitutional scholar dismissed federal threats to prosecute state workers who facilitate a proposed revamp of the state’s medical marijuana laws.

Hugh Spitzer, a law professor at University of Washington, sent a letter to Gov. Chris Gregoire saying she shouldn’t be “bullied” into vetoing the medical marijuana revamp approved by lawmakers.

“I am not aware of any situations in the last sixty years, and perhaps not since the Civil War, where state officials were personally prosecuted for carrying out ministerial functions under state law,” Spitzer wrote.

Gregoire, citing federal threats, has indicated she’s likely to veto legislation approved by lawmakers that seeks to clarify the state law by authorizing state licensing and regulation over medical marijuana production and sales.

Back in Spokane, police spokeswoman Jennifer DeRuwe said city officers are assisting federal agents in a support role involving marijuana dispensaries, but that she had no further information.

The raids came as marijuana advocates were hosting a Spokane training session for dispensary operators on how to deal with law enforcement raids. The training session, being conducted at the downtown Spokane Public Library, was interrupted by the announcement that raids were under way.

Watch for continuing updates on this developing story and for complete coverage in Friday’s edition of The Spokesman-Review.

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57 comments on this story so far. Add yours!

ZagChuck on April 28 at 3:11 p.m.
They can’t say they weren’t warned.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2011/apr/07/spokane-pot-shops-on-federal-notice/
detroitdude on April 28 at 3:12 p.m.
What great use of my tax dollars lol
idahocity on April 28 at 3:22 p.m.
ozzie don’t let those fed privateers run amok in your county. your department probably gets a percentage of the spoils i’m betting.
zovia0123 on April 28 at 3:31 p.m.
thought the voters voted it was ok… guess as usual the vote doesnt mean a dang thing..guess one must have money to hav a say..well i say time to get rid of the NOW POLITICIALS IDOITS AND GET NEW AND UP DATED ONES
RedCedar on April 28 at 3:35 p.m.
We can argue all day about whether something should be legal or illegal, but we should at least make it clear what is or isn’t illegal right now. The pot shops are operating in a legal gray zone that was probably deliberately left very gray by legislators who are still not sure which way their personal political winds are blowing on the pot issue. So, we have “caretakers” who are allowed to sell pot (something that is otherwise illegal) but nothing to define exactly what a “caretaker” is. Lazy legislators have left that up to the courts to decide, which is entirely the wrong way to go about making law.
Thoreau on April 28 at 3:43 p.m.
The fascist stormtroopers are coming!
ZagChuck on April 28 at 3:43 p.m.
@ Red Cedar,
Only licensed pharmacologists are allowed to distribute controlled substances, why is this one different? .
MrNatural on April 28 at 3:46 p.m.
……would somebody play “Stone Free” by Jimi Hendrix as the anathema please…
polistra on April 28 at 3:54 p.m.
I’ll bet all those pot-shop owners voted for Obama thinking they’d get friendlier feds.
There aren’t any friendlier feds. It’s all the same racket.
Diana on April 28 at 4:01 p.m.
Sounds like the free market has spoken and nobody is listening.
polly on April 28 at 4:05 p.m.
I hope the pot shop being run by the law student in the basement apartment of my building is being raided. I’m tired of my apartment smelling like skunk…
toughlove on April 28 at 4:14 p.m.
I hope they shut them down for good. You should see the medical claims that are made by some of these distributors. Imagine if Pfizer or another drug company made such over-reaching claims without the approval of the FDA? Also, I agree with the other poster, why can this drug be distributed by someone other than a pharmacist?
Loudin on April 28 at 4:26 p.m.
These places sell only one drug: Marijuana. They aren’t real pharmacies and they don’t operate in the legal manner with which we regulate pharmacies. How many pharmacies have you ever seen that have a mermaid and an octopus painted on the side? These are fronts for soft-prescriptions written by “new to the area” MD’s looking to cash in on a loophole. Furthermore, the shop owners are people who aren’t providing this service out of the goodness of their hearts, but rather to make quick money before CVS/Walgreens/Rite-Aid and Walmart take over marijuana distribution.
I have no problem whatsoever w/these raids: These shops are disgusting blights upon the community and it’s a big joke w/in the weed scene about the true “services” they provide. If the voters of Washington are serious about legalization, they’ll produce legislation that protects legitimate pharmacies from federal prosecution; thus, the scummy nature of these local dispensaries will disappear and the entire process will be safe and legitimate.
BTW: You have to pretty big idiot to have kept a dispensary open when the local LE told you they were going to shut you down. They were probably using too much of their own product…
andjusticeforall on April 28 at 4:33 p.m.
@ loudin
but let me guess you are completely ok with driving down the street & the smell of meth overpowering your vehicle because the police are out raiding pot stores instead of raiding meth labs in our neighborhoods & near schools ??? you think im making it up? drive down market & turn down sanson 1/2 a block & take a whiff buddy
Bruce (aka thatoneguy) on April 28 at 4:39 p.m.
“anathema”?
Loudin on April 28 at 4:44 p.m.
LE need to do their overpaid jobs by raiding both these scuzzy pot dispensaries and the local meth fiend labs.
See, it’s an easy solution.
BTW: Why do so many of these protesters look out of shape and on SSI? Maybe their problem is lack of access to marijuana, but rather a lack of exercise and motivation. I doubt many of them are running Bloomsday or working on college finals this week.
Again…this is a front for marijuana consumption. Sure, there are a handful of broken bodied people who get relief from it; but the vast majority are just token users utilizing a loophole to maintain their unproductive lives. Meth abuser or pot head…it’s all the same: Weak minds, weak bodies.
You know it’s true. Wink-wink, Nod-nod. These people are not our community’s finest.
westerly on April 28 at 4:44 p.m.
whooo…these killers of children are behind bars…pathetic ignornent cops and feds…
Byrdie714 on April 28 at 4:45 p.m.
Now they need to raid the “medical marijuana clinics” that provide the paperwork as some of these “medical clinics” are nothing but a quackery, especially the one on Greene & Mission.
westerly on April 28 at 4:48 p.m.
whooohoo…these killers of children are behind bars…pathetic ignornant cops and feds… makes Spokane look like some back woods town, which it is around the state..”SpookyHollow”
andjusticeforall on April 28 at 4:53 p.m.
@ LOUDIN
dont talk cuz it looks like you are the one with the helmet on bahahahahaha
dataxman on April 28 at 5:16 p.m.
How stoned must you be to think you would not be raided? Look how well it worked for Arizona when they tried to pass laws that conflicted with the Feds…
Loudin on April 28 at 5:21 p.m.
Andjusticeforall,
I’m surprised you didn’t bust out an “LOL” for yourself. You type like it’s 1995…
BTW: Are you bummed out that your source of weed is closed?
Now, to Sheriff Ozzie “My Deputies Shoot Everything That Moves” K.: Shut down the paraphernalia shops on Division. I think they go by the name “Puffin’ Glass.:” The owner is fat, tatted up guy who is balding badly for kid his age. Anyway, the “new” one on north Division is w/in 100 yards of an elementary school. Please, shut down these DB’s…they are a blight, like the phony dispensaries.
Byrdie714 on April 28 at 5:22 p.m.
@dataxman—apparently pretty stoned!
JBlim on April 28 at 5:26 p.m.
Your tax dollars at work. Don’t they have anything better to do?
DHF on April 28 at 5:27 p.m.
Best thing that ever happened. Close them all down.
Loudin on April 28 at 5:31 p.m.
Look at the angry protesters in the photos…they might be better served if they put down their vice (weed) and went for a run. I thought pot heads were mellow people; they look very mad…almost unhealthy.
BTW Protesters: LE didn’t shut down “IHOP” or rip Twinkies off the shelves…so you guys are still good on your munchies.
james_l on April 28 at 5:32 p.m.
All this is going on while dozens of Spokane area meth labs go about their business untouched.
What a pathetic waste of our limited law enforcement resources.
Loudin on April 28 at 5:33 p.m.
Also, can you imagine the stink around the front of that shop? I bet the S/R photographer wanted to vomit after smelling that rank odor of protest.
And I feel for the jailers handling the owners; have to put on one of those “Intel” spacesuits if you want to avoid the reefer stink.
Loudin on April 28 at 5:35 p.m.
James,
No…the LE guys need to bust BOTH the phony pot shops (er, “dispensaries”) and the meth labs. Lock ‘em all up.
See, BOTH. BOTH. Both.
On a side note, “The Inlander” just lost about $25K/month in ad revenue…
zztopo on April 28 at 5:42 p.m.
This is living proof that Law Enforcement officials are desperate to waste federal tax dollars on an “sitting ducks.”
Wow. Congrats on busting genuine humanitarians who want to put people at ease with no malicious intent. It’s also like “shooting fish in a barrel.”
You feds make me sick.
zztopo on April 28 at 5:47 p.m.
Hey Loudin, you are heading for nowhere in life. Your “holier-than-thou” attitude is going to knock you on your keester.
But I’m sure you know how that feels, since you know what it’s like to be pinned down on your “brain.”
Loudin on April 28 at 5:49 p.m.
ZZtopo:
What planet do you live on? “Humanitarians?” These are opportunists who are trying to make a quick buck before Walgreen’s and others can take it over. These are people w/sketchy backgrounds who are exploiting loop holes to make money. They are not “humanitarians.” They are phony…
Loudin
toliveanddieinla on April 28 at 5:52 p.m.
feds=scumbags that waste taxpayers money im real upset that patients now that cant grow or cant find a caregiver will have to go back to the street where you have to get medicine it isnt dried right or cured right or kiefed medicine which as alot of thc while they bust patients and dispensaries , we have methheads ,pillpoppers duis drinking slobs,and robbers etc. why dont the feds leave now they suck p.s. have a nice day patients
Loudin on April 28 at 5:53 p.m.
ZZ,
Instead of whining about the raids, why don’t you demand that there is real oversight over the legalization of marijuana? Why are you so quick to entrust the delivery of this drug to patients via this scumbag delivery method? If these owners were cooks, would you put their food in your mouth?
These dispensaries are phony. They are fronts for lazy people to make a quick buck. These aren’t good people and these aren’t people you’d want to deliver any other drug. It’s phony…as evident in the fact that they sell only one product. How many pharmacies in this country sell only one product? Thought so…
BTW: How stupid do you have to be to know via the S/R that LE is going to raid you? Again, these are the rocket scientists providing such a “humanitarian” endeavor.
Loudin
Loudin on April 28 at 5:56 p.m.
Again, the people in these S/R photos look like they need to put down the pipe, pick up some running shoes and get their stuff together. Especially the SSI/Welfare types who are milking the system…
Those two women in the one photo need to drop some serious pounds; weed won’t help with that. Get healthy or stop whining…simple.
detroitdude on April 28 at 6:09 p.m.
“Meth abuser or pot head…it’s all the same: Weak minds, weak bodies. ”
@ Loudin - While I usually enjoy reading your posts that statement is way off. Pot and meth are not even in the same ballpark save for the fact that our federal government considers both illegal. Nobody ever died from a weed overdose, weed doesn’t make your teeth fall out and your skin infested with nasty scabby boils. Nor does weed make a person so addicted and desperate to sell themselves by any means possible in order to obtain their “fix”. If you don’t like drinking or smoking pot, don’t do it, its simple. But don’t jump on other people for a victimless crime. Yeah I agree that these shops are probably seedy and there are way too many of them. Which brings me to my next point…
The stuff just needs to be legalized and taxed like liquor. I consider it a waste of the tax money I pay to have the Feds going ape$%# over a plant. We have so many other immediate problems in this country, what people do with pot in their own privacy should not be our concern.
mrd on April 28 at 6:11 p.m.
About time.
TheRain on April 28 at 6:12 p.m.
It’s about time someone stood up for the billion-dollar drug companies, instead of letting leukemia patients run roughshod over them. If we let people spend $10 on pot they might not spend $1,000 on prednisone, and then what happens to society?
All sarcasm aside, and with due respect to Rep. Ormsby’s labor credentials, I’ll vote for anybody else in 2012 just because of the crap being pulled here.
Bee509 on April 28 at 6:56 p.m.
@Louda** It appears you have very strong opinions and sure you’re well within rights to believe them, even if they are a bit bastardy. In many cases you are dead wrong.
Who are you to judge the character of those running the dispensaries? How many do you know personally, rather than promoting spin - name some names not descriptions like that tattooed guy that’s balding. Also tell me how often have you been inside of a dispensary if at all. Sounds a bit like you are pulling stuff out of thin air.
Also, how mighty of you to judge and label an entire plethora of people based on a picture that only clearly depicts 3 people, in which only two might be overweight. Then again, tell me how do you know their medical condition didn’t contribute to that at all? Assuming they use marijuana, last I checked the picture didn’t come posted with drug test results of the people in it. For all you know they could be passionate about states rights.
As for the recreational users, most that I know have very active lives, well educated, have high paying jobs and are all round good people who just like a little smoke. There you go with your spin…
Opportunist be damned. You sound a bit like a right winger, but you’re conservatism must stop at states rights, personal/civil liberties, deregulation and free markets. Hmm… bit confused or just like spin?
I give up, loudin is right. Big Pharma, and Big Biz is the only legit source of medicine because Pfizer and Walgreen’s aren’t opportunists that exploit every loophole to make money. C’mon people we need more people robbing pharmacies and strung out on hillbilly heroin.
Jimmy on April 28 at 6:56 p.m.
Fed law trumps State Law every time. You think Spokane is bad with dispensaries, you should check Cali. Glad they’re shut down.
@westerly
You probably don’t get out of Spokane much. This doesn’t make Spokane look backwoods - the Feds are doing this everywhere.
empyrius on April 28 at 7:12 p.m.
Alcohol is a controlled substance . . .
Are those state liquor dealers licensed pharmacologists?
O, and your local Safeway checker?
Didn’t think so.
All those people calling for less government sure worship this accursed government Fancying themselves rogues when they are naught but rubber stamps. Proclaiming “Freedom”! “Freedom”! and of course the “free”-market . . .
I got news for you; you cannot even die for free!
But smoking some bud that freely grows from our Lord’s good green earth is illegal.
Har har har har
Bee509 on April 28 at 7:25 p.m.
Our voters, your peers passed this MMJ law. Our/Your lawmakers, our/your representatives have pushed and fought for clarifications to this law to prevent raids like this. And that was in addition to this probably lesser known bill;
HJM 4009 - 2009-10 Claiming state sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment.
Those a bit more well versed in legal matters might be able to correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that have anything to do with this current issue of the feds bullying the Gov. into a veto?
What certainly bothers me the most is the seizure of patient files, god knows what will come of that. Shame on you SPD for assisting.
karl2002 on April 28 at 7:34 p.m.
This is such a pathetic waste of effort by the Feds. Decriminalize pot and you get rid of the criminal/gang/druglord part of the equation. All they have done with this action is to send people back to the street to get their weed. Isn’t it time we stop wasting our tax dollars on this ridiculous war on drugs?
RedCedar on April 28 at 8:01 p.m.
@zagchuck: “Only licensed pharmacologists are allowed to distribute controlled substances, why is this one different?”
That’s a good question to ask the legislators. The answer opens up the whole can of worms that this issue represents. Pharmacists are licensed by the state and so the state could presumably allow/require them to sell medicinal pot. On the other hand, controlled substances are regulated by the feds, who still do not allow any medicinal use of pot. They would likely pull the federal licenses of any pharmacist caught selling pot. Today’s busts could probably have been avoided if the legislature had been more clear about the law, both in defining who is a legal “caretaker” authorized to supply pot, and in clearly defining that “medical marijuana” is not de-facto legalization in which anyone who claim to be “suffering” from anything from tiredness to a toothache can be “prescribed” marijuana. Basically the legislature punted, not being sure how to read the political tea leaves, and left the courts to decide, unsurprisingly, that what looks like open drug dealing probably is open drug dealing and is therefore illegal.
Currently law is a mess, not just because it’s confusing, but because it’s widely ignored and yet occasionally severely enforced. The result is injustice no matter what side you’re on. The American people have got to make up their minds on this and make it clear to their politicians that they either want pot legalized from the federal level on down, or they want to go back to unequivocal prohibition of the stuff.
cdabornandraised on April 28 at 9:05 p.m.
You people who are advocating that these shops get shut down are absolutely insane. And what is with all of the comments about “pot heads” being non productive and lazy? You people need to wake the hell up. This country’s Constitution and Declaration of Independence were written on hemp paper! The same paper that can not be made in this country because cannabis and industrial hemp are scheduled in the same category as heroine! What about the first American Flag? …Made of hemp! So you indigents are calling George Washington a loser … you would jail him? He smoked daily and grew cannabis at Mt. Vernon. Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, and Abe Lincoln all smoked cannabis. Were they worthless? Cannabis has never killed a single person … so if you think that it is illegal because the government wants to keep you safe, then you should just shoot yourself now because you are a worthless propaganda sponge. The shop that was shut down today primarily serviced vets and the elderly with alternatives to smoking such as tinctures and edibles. Here is a clue … instead of shooting yourselves, how about googling “hemp facts” before your fingers outrun your brains, then get back on this site and apologize for your inexcusable ignorance!
cdabornandraised on April 28 at 9:37 p.m.
Loudin,
You are a direct reflection of a societal failure. … All mouth and no brains. You are so ignorant that it hurts. You need some meds, because if you cant understand how cannabis threatens the pharmaceutical lobby in the US, then you are sick. Not to mention that the UN’s Controlled Substances Act has allowed the US to militarize the planet in the name of the War on Drugs which was created by Nixon! This valuable medicine has been used successfully for thousands and thousands of years before your dad should have pulled out.
If our government gave a crap about your health, hamburgers would be illegal, so would cars and cell phones …. they all kill people, ganja does not! … Figure it out.
Irv Rosenfeld gets his cannabis from the directly from the federal government in pre rolled joints grow with tax dollars!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvzX8aNwxgM
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937
Lets see you argue with some facts buddy!
http://hempcar.org/hempfacts.shtml
Now get some sleep, because it must be exhausting being so ignorant.
greenlibertarian on April 28 at 9:52 p.m.
Loudin’s over the top and unfair characterization is wrong and diminishes his credibility.
While the cops may have some real crimes to work on, this is a MONEYMAKER for them. Without even getting a conviction on ANYTHING, once a (federally illegal) substance is found on a person, that person is subject to the seizure of ALL their property, cash, stocks and bonds, vehicles, house, etc. That happens FREQUENTLY.
LE doesn’t want to give up this money gravy train, simple as that.
Are there some who are abusing the MMJ dispensary system? Of course there are, there are always some level of people who game any system. Most of them work on Wall Street.
Note to S/R, MHP on Freya was NOT busted today. They probably will be tomorrow.
My friend with glaucoma that tried every over the counter and prescription therapy of which none worked according to his Ophthalmologist, he went in for an eye exam after consuming marijuana, and his eye-pressure, which can be painful, was reduced, as noted by such stand-up Ophthalmologist, who told him well, you consume pot then, only thing that gives you relief from the eye pressure. “But don’t tell anyone I said so, and no, I won’t write a MMF recommendation for you, the law is too gray.”
Bee509 on April 28 at 10:01 p.m.
@cdabornandraised I guess he forgot about Michael Phelps and the two starters on the WSU basketball team. Nothing spells lazy potheads like collegiate and olympic athletes, who just happen to smoke mj.
hamrsrscarry on April 28 at 11:37 p.m.
dude my back’s killing me.
valleyman on April 28 at 11:40 p.m.
I wonder how many of these dispensary owners are going to need a prescription of their own to deal with the depression they have to be feeling over this raid and their pending dates with the federal court system…
ikoiko on April 29 at 9:50 a.m.
What does the federal government not understand about states rights and more importantly the rights of the people. They did the same old “morality” crime route with alcohol during prohibition and we all know how bad that failed. If the federal government thinks that it can step on the rights of the people and favor corporate propaganda and take away our rights then it is time for the states to stand up for their rights and succeed from the union of greed and become their own free countries.
the time has come for all to stop bitching and join the revolution
cdabornandraised on April 29 at 11:47 a.m.
Where are you now loudin aka loudone? Lets have a debate? The first step to learning, is the realization that you don’t know everything.
Byrdie714 on April 29 at 12:22 p.m.
Neither do everyone else on this forum
John_Fever_Richmond on April 29 at 3:46 p.m.
Excellent! Now I can start cross-selling my meth to what would have been just “potheads”!!! Loudin you keep up the good work!!!
eagleproducer on April 30 at 6:20 p.m.
The anti-freedom/anti-canabis crowd probably doesn’t realize this, but every dispensary “shut down” during these raids is open and it’s business as usual.
The government is in bed with Mexican Drug Cartels. Everything in my experience and logic makes me arrive at that conclusion. They want Cartels to supply marijuana, wreak havoc on your neighborhoods and import that great feel of living on the borders of Mexico. The Feds aren’t investing or closing down all of the obvious fronts for laundering money for Mexican Cartels that now dot the landscape of Spokane, but they are closing down Medical Canabis shops. Do the math.
bonneaubob on May 01 at 5:55 a.m.
Aww shucks guys, go have a drink in the bar, drive home and relax.
Boheme on May 02 at 9:29 a.m.
Timing is everything.
Last month the DEA raided operations in Montana at the same time a bill was coming out of the legislature to basically wipeout the voter-approved cannabis access laws.
Now they do the same thing in Spokane when another severely modifying bill is coming out of the WA legislature.
Coincidence?
The DEA and federal prosecutors are using your tax dollars to leverage a socio-political debate. Hooverism. As in J. Edgar. They are going against directives from superiors(elected officials) over whom we have at least some influence.
If the mayor directed the police officers to put their resources towards certain activities, and not directly spend resources on others deemed less impactful, should the officers be allowed to do what ever they choose? Apparently they can at the federal level.
The fear-mongering allows people to be manipulated. The MT rep.’s use the fear to promote centralization which would allow just a few corporations and the government to control a plant given to us by God. i.e. “30,000 people” are authorized for med. cannabis use in MT, which scares some folks, but I wager that over a MILLION have taken a Big Pharma Med. in the last year.
Doc.’s are very willing to write ‘scrips for Big Pharma pills, and it is easy to manipiulate that system to get more, not counting the black market.
Liquor store owners in WA have been planning for legalization for quite a while. They want to control the access.
So, if the corporations have their way, cannabis will be provided by Phizer or Coors.
The MT bill was promoted by the rep. from Billings, the city that had 2 dispensaries firebombed.
Look at what Gregoire is doing. Rep. or Dem. it is about money and CONTROL.
A paradigm shift is taking place. Not just of the plant, but of how we as people choose to function and control our own lives.
Namaste.