Thursday, June 28, 2018

Do Your Candidates Support Homegrows in WA?



     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,

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