Medical Weed Used To Be Privilege, Not Entitlement

It has been interesting, as well as predictable, to observe over the last couple of years, the decline in the degree of difficulty there is to obtain a Montana medical marijuana card. It used to be a scenic drive down the Bitterroot Valley; now it’s a quick trip over the Bozeman Pass. Or a road trip over to Billings for the monthly recruiting festival.

I applaud Community Health Partners and Park Clinic for their efforts to maintain a higher degree of integrity by instituting a review panel to assess the legitimacy of the client’s request. Wasn’t the Montana medical marijuana program established as a privilege, not an entitlement, to be recommended as a treatment to alleviate certain medical conditions?

But it has truly sunk to a new low, if anyone and everyone, even those out on bail and awaiting trial for drug charges, theft, even child abuse, can take a ride over to Bozeman, pay their $200 in fees and get a guaranteed recommendation. If this is what it is coming down to, it has lost any semblance as a privilege, as well as any sense of legitimacy.

We might as well take the next logical step and legalize marijuana. Have the state open a series of dispensaries, as well as a state controlled/operated farm system for cultivation. Talk about job creation! Let the state take in the revenue from the soon-to-be-if-not-already number one cash crop in Montana and just do away with the caregiver system.

I would advocate that, from the obscene profits generated, every man, woman and child in the state receive a yearly $1,000 cannabis rebate check, similar to the Alaskan state oil royalty rebate.

I’ll bet there is enough left over to fund the state’s educational system. How about an added bonus of seeing the medical marijuana caregiver murder rate decline!



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