Pubdate: Thu, 05 Jan 2012
Source: Kent Reporter (WA)
Copyright: 2012 Sound Publishing
Contact:  http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/ken/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5026
Author: Gregory Worthing

QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDICAL MARIJUANA VOTES

A big Christmas thanks to the three city council members who (in a 
3-3 Dec. 13 vote) gave an early present to all the gang-bangers and 
street dealers of Kent by driving seriously ill citizens into their 
underground world.

Also a big thanks from the big drug companies who love to charge 
these patients $300 a day for pills that many say don't work or work 
as well as medical marijuana.

An equally big thanks for nothing from Kent citizens with "legal" 
state medical marijuana cards battling MS (multiple sclerosis), AIDS, 
Lou Gehrig's disease, shingles, glaucoma, cancer and severe arthritis.

If Kent is a big city compare us with the way big cities around us 
are handling this issue.

To the three city council members who voted down gardens in Kent I 
say, where is your compassion, where is your courage and where is 
your leadership? Your votes to severely limit access to sick people 
comes across as small town paranoia, small-minded mistrust and 
heartlessness for your sick citizens.

Gregory Worthing

Kent
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