Pot profiteers harmful

Mon., May 4, 2015

Unfortunately, I believe that Washington government has equated the “gangland attitude” of profiteering shown by so many so-called medical cannabis “stores” with all of us, i.e., legitimate medical patients and activists.

I know that most patients, me and others, care so much more about the value of cannabis as medicine rather than profits, but it appears that those who are not following the true spirit of medical cannabis laws have made so many waves, and so much money, that legitimate patients and activists are being ignored once again.

I know many legitimate patients are ignored by those so-called medical cannabis stores unless we can “show them the money.” So sad, but true.

Tom Hawkins

Grand Coulee, Wash.

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