{"id":1416,"date":"2012-03-19T07:39:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T07:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=13292"},"modified":"2012-03-19T07:39:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T07:39:57","slug":"medical-marijuana-dispensaries-expected-to-open-in-washington-d-c-by-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/medical-marijuana-dispensaries-expected-to-open-in-washington-d-c-by-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Marijuana Dispensaries Expected to Open in Washington D.C. by Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/medical-marijuana-dispensaries-expected-to-open-in-washington-d-c-by-summer\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dc-monument.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"dc monument\" title=\"dc monument\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13294\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/medical-marijuana-dispensaries-expected-to-open-in-washington-d-c-by-summer\/attachment\/dc-monument\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dc-monument-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>With the iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleypatientsgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Patient\u2019s Group<\/a> being forced to close its doors, the Federal government has demonstrated its desire to uphold not only its failed war on drugs, but also the war on patients.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, inside the belly of the beast, medical marijuana centers will be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/03\/17\/MNK41NM4DO.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"> opening up within months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C. is expected to start serving medical marijuana patients by this summer.\u00a0 The process has already begun as cultivators are filling out the paperwork for leasing growing space.\u00a0 Sixty nine percent of D.C. voters approved a measure to<a href=\"http:\/\/dcsafeaccess.org\/legal\/initiative-59-legalization-of-marijuana-for-medical-treatment-initiative-of-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\"> legalize medical marijuana way back in 1998<\/a>, but Congress stood in the way several times.\u00a0 In 2010, the City Council in D.C.<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dc\/2010\/07\/medical_marijuana_now_legal.html\" target=\"_blank\"> approved another measure<\/a> and this time Congress decided to respect the decision of both the council and residents of Washington.\u00a0 Residents who qualify will be purchasing marijuana within miles of the white house and congress, even as patients thousands of miles away fear raids and shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The medical marijuana program in Washington D.C., like many other new states enacting programs, will have a much stricter set of guidelines than California\u2019s system.\u00a0 This may be why the federal government, for the moment, seems to be far less concerned.\u00a0 California does not have a state run program, and municipalities have different interpretations of what rights are afforded under<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hr95.org\/Prop215.html\" target=\"_blank\"> proposition 215<\/a>.\u00a0 However this is all speculation and with little information available as to how the federal government selects its raid targets, advocates are left without an answer.\u00a0 Even if laws become stricter in California, many patients and advocates are hoping for a unified system so that everyone can operate legally.<\/p>\n<p>Until the federal government decides to take the guessing game out of the legal realm, medical marijuana will remain in limbo.\u00a0 Although Washington D.C. will be allowed to serve patients now, no one can be certain of what the new faces in congress will decide after this November.\u00a0 No one wants a prolonged battle with the federal government, and a government should not be seeking to battle sick patients.\u00a0 The debate seems to be getting sillier each day and if our government cannot decide what they even want\u00a0 in their own backyard (City of Washington D.C), then can we really expect to look to them for leadership elsewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dc-monument.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"dc monument\" title=\"dc monument\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-13294\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/medical-marijuana-dispensaries-expected-to-open-in-washington-d-c-by-summer\/attachment\/dc-monument\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/dc-monument-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>With the iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleypatientsgroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Patient\u2019s Group<\/a> being forced to close its doors, the Federal government has demonstrated its desire to uphold not only its failed war on drugs, but also the war on patients.\u00a0 Interestingly enough, inside the belly of the beast, medical marijuana centers will be<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/03\/17\/MNK41NM4DO.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"> opening up within months<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Washington D.C. is expected to start serving medical marijuana patients by this summer.\u00a0 The process has already begun as cultivators are filling out the paperwork for leasing growing space.\u00a0 Sixty nine percent of D.C. voters approved a measure to<a href=\"http:\/\/dcsafeaccess.org\/legal\/initiative-59-legalization-of-marijuana-for-medical-treatment-initiative-of-1998\/\" target=\"_blank\"> legalize medical marijuana way back in 1998<\/a>, but Congress stood in the way several times.\u00a0 In 2010, the City Council in D.C.<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dc\/2010\/07\/medical_marijuana_now_legal.html\" target=\"_blank\"> approved another measure<\/a> and this time Congress decided to respect the decision of both the council and residents of Washington.\u00a0 Residents who qualify will be purchasing marijuana within miles of the white house and congress, even as patients thousands of miles away fear raids and shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The medical marijuana program in Washington D.C., like many other new states enacting programs, will have a much stricter set of guidelines than California\u2019s system.\u00a0 This may be why the federal government, for the moment, seems to be far less concerned.\u00a0 California does not have a state run program, and municipalities have different interpretations of what rights are afforded under<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hr95.org\/Prop215.html\" target=\"_blank\"> proposition 215<\/a>.\u00a0 However this is all speculation and with little information available as to how the federal government selects its raid targets, advocates are left without an answer.\u00a0 Even if laws become stricter in California, many patients and advocates are hoping for a unified system so that everyone can operate legally.<\/p>\n<p>Until the federal government decides to take the guessing game out of the legal realm, medical marijuana will remain in limbo.\u00a0 Although Washington D.C. will be allowed to serve patients now, no one can be certain of what the new faces in congress will decide after this November.\u00a0 No one wants a prolonged battle with the federal government, and a government should not be seeking to battle sick patients.\u00a0 The debate seems to be getting sillier each day and if our government cannot decide what they even want\u00a0 in their own backyard (City of Washington D.C), then can we really expect to look to them for leadership elsewhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1437,45,52,117,65,56,9,51,70,1,3,467,61,162],"tags":[4006,2628,2632,2695,2644,2636,2631,5,3041,6,2740],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}