We sent out
a letter today asking which candidates running for office in Pierce County
support homegrows. You can find who is running for office at your county
auditor’s website.
Here’s a template
letter to send the candidates running in your area. Tweek it, update it, change
it whatever you need to do, but it may be a good idea to send this out to candidates in your county.
Cannabis should be a campaign issue in WA.
Dear Candidates,
My name
is “your name”. I am a “fill in your details”. At the moment,
medical cannabis is severely broken in Washington. Patients lack access to safe
and affordable medicine, low plant limits have hindered their ability to grow for
themselves and even if they can grow it is nearly impossible to purchase legal
seeds or small plants. Oklahoma just passed medical cannabis, and if
implemented as written, even they would have a better medical cannabis system
than Washington. Additionally, Washington is the only state with adult use
cannabis, aka recreational cannabis, that does not allow adults over 21 to grow
at home. Let me repeat, every state except Washington allows adults over 21 to
grow at least four plants at their home. I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t
seem right we are in last place when it comes to cannabis policy.
The
cannabis community is looking to partner with state and local candidates to
work together to bring adult homegrows and an updated medical cannabis system to
Washington. We’ve gotten close in the past in Olympia, but it is going to take
just a little extra push. Please reply to this email if you support homegrows
and would like to speak about how you can support us in upgrading cannabis
policy in these important ways.
Best Regards,
