Rivers bill on medical marijuana draws heat
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Washington’s unregulated medical marijuana market has repeatedly been described as the wild, wild West.
Well, the gunslinging has started.
One activist Photoshopped a portrait of Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, a key lawmaker pushing the Cannabis Patient Protection Act, adding fangs and devilish red eyes to the photo.
A medical marijuana user said Rivers’ measure, which has gained momentum in the state Legislature, would be so detrimental to patients, he has a hard time picturing her as anything other than an “evil person.”
Rivers, for her part, said she’s been miscast, and is empathetic to those who, as her dying father once did, rely on medical marijuana to ease the pain.
“I believe there are appropriate users,” Rivers said. “Likewise, I believe there are people using and saying they are patients who are not truly patients.”
Last legislative session, the state’s attempts to regulate...
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