To the editor:
A few days ago, Governor Inslee signed a hate bill into law in Washington state.
This hate law does away with medical marijuana apothecary shops, medical delivery services and decades of research into medical strains used for specific diseases.
Without easy access to medicine such as shops and delivery services, patients are going to be tortured because of this hate bill. Recreational shops will not have access to medical strains of medicine. It takes years to produce them. I saw a photo of the governor signing the hate bill. In the photo is a little kid that needs medical marijuana for his disease. What the little kid doesn’t know is that the governor’s signature just destroyed all the medical strains he needs for his best treatment. Having a kid watch you sign their torture warrant is as low as you can get. Torturing sick children should be a crime. Am I surprised? No.
Marijuana has carcinogens in its smoke, but no one has ever gotten lung cancer from it. No one ever even died from marijuana. That no one has ever gotten cancer from it suggests that there are anti-cancer agents in marijuana. Our government, for 40 years, has not allowed research into a cure for cancer in marijuana. If there is a cure for cancer in marijuana that means our government has murdered over 20 million Americans by not researching it. Why is not researching marijuana worth the lives of 20 million Americans? If they were willing to kill 20 million of our citizens, why would anyone be surprised about torturing sick children?
Where I live the people in my area voted 80 percent for legalization of marijuana. It has been found that where medical marijuana is available, the death rate in the 18- to 34-year-old group drops on average by 9 percent probably because marijuana is so much less debilitating.
Why is our city council willing to kill young people by not having marijuana around? When asked, they said people didn’t want marijuana in their neighborhoods and that was more important than the deaths of people’s families. I am not surprised.
ATSON REEDER
Bainbridge Island
