MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL WOULD BE UNWORKABLE

The governor should veto SB 423. He says "So I will hold my nose and
allow this to be law until the Legislature gets back to session (in
2013)." As a patient with MS, I can't wear a nose plug until then.

This is made to be un-workable and destructive for the patients. There
is no back up if your garden has pests or problems.

Say you spent two months and $500 on equipment. You lose your plants.
Now under the rules of SB423, you lose the $500 and pray someone will
give you your medicine for free. Now once you've gotten a provider,
you can't start over to grow your own or go without your medicine for
three months. Your provider can't even give you transplants. Or seeds,
for that matter.

Now you have zero control over your medicine besides "hoping and
praying" they grow enough for all three of you. Now the provider will
skimp because they can't even get a donation for the electric bill.
They can't receive your $500 worth of equipment either.

If isn't bad enough, you can't even get your medicine tested by a lab.
Just this one point alone is unconstitutional to me. How can this be
protecting public health and safety? So under SB 423, I can get a free
tincture from someone else, but be unable to see a lab analysis of its
ingredients.

Does this show why it is referred to as the "black market bill?" This
will turn into thousands of unregulated growing operations to supply
the re-emerged black market with higher prices and danger for those
who follow these new draconian regulations. It makes more sense for
dispensaries and tracking of sales. They check IDs. Law enforcement
can check them for compliance.

Josh Daniels

Billings