Pubdate: Fri, 26 Dec 2014
Source: Honolulu Star-Advertiser (HI)
Copyright: 2014 Star Advertiser
Contact: 
http://www.staradvertiser.com/info/Star-Advertiser_Letter_to_the_Editor.html
Website: http://www.staradvertiser.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/5154
Author: Andrea Tischler

MAKE IT EASIER FOR POT PATIENTS

Hawaii medical cannabis patients are at the end of their rope.

For 14 years, they have not been able to access safe, efficacious 
medicine due to a hastily crafted state law that forces them to buy 
on the illegal market.

Even more egregious, if a state dispensary bill is passed in 2015, it 
would be two to three years before administrative rules are adopted, 
exacerbating the stress and pain.

Patients cannot wait more years. Lawmakers have already demonstrated 
their lack of compassion and caring for the sick and dying.

The solution to this problem is a presidential executive order to 
correctly reschedule cannabis as a Schedule 2 drug. That would 
effectively allow doctors to prescribe cannabis and pharmacies to 
dispense the drug throughout the U.S.

This is the patient's very pressing need and hope for the coming new year.

Andrea Tischler

Chairwoman, Americans for Safe Access,

Big Island chapter, Hilo
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