I know, i'm quite angry when I see open messages of hate and persecution in the name of goodness. Especially something as unethical as that as it encourages people like you and me to be rejected for jobs because of doing something which benefits debilitating conditions. They are portraying that I would not be able to do a food service job adequately enough to be hired simply because I medicate so I can eat properly, yet the food they serve causes heart attacks and kills people. You have to stop trends of hate and persecution early in society using the law to keep your children and my children in a country with everyone on equal footing.
BUT GOOD NEWS! Here is links to upcoming laws which will most likely pass, and with Gov Lingle gone and a pro medicine Gov Abercrombie in office! This is a good age to heal from rolling a bad hand on health (which happens to every kind of person in our society). Anyway, i'll try to be less grumpy, here is the good news:
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB58_.HTM
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB58_.HTM
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/Bills/SB174_.HTM
http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2011/bills/SB175_.htm
These laws seem absolutely fair, they provide more rights to patients while doing things to keep drug dealers from trying to profit and exploit the ill utilizing the law. They don't make it at all profitable to grow for ailing patients, which is good because it will attract more people doing it for the right reasons. You don't mess around with the closest thing to a cure for cancer we got with money. (grr, i gotta back this up don't I? Excuse the interruption, but link showing proof that marijuana is the closest thing to curing cancer we have in medicine right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJmQ16cGBHU and
http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=8087) These changes are reasonable and just enough so we can grow our own without worrying if we lose one or two (which happens! spidermites, root fungus, lighting problems, weak genetics, hermaphrodite traits, etc). It seems to keep adequate supply at 5 ounces, when you harvest that has to last you 4 months (to grow the new ones following the rules), isn't really enough. Because if it comes out low quality which happens in all genetics, you are stuck with something that wont help your condition as much for that long. but then I think back and I realized I haven't been able to yield more than 5oz after fully dried in a long time, so it wont really affect me, but I still think that number should be higher, but it IS reasonable. All in all if these pass it would be good for real patients, and although i'm not anti people making money with something as safe as cannabis when McDonalds is allowed to sell you stuff that will kill you over your lifetime eating it, seems kinda unfair. BUt as much as many people might not like it, i'm pro cannabis being CHEAP and easy to get for patients, because insurance companies screw our nations suffering enough, we don't need to add any of that from the Medical Natural MOST EFFECTIVE Remedy as well. Now personally because it is so benign I think it should be completely legal, but looking at it from the position of the sick peoples needs first, these changes are good.
Be patient though, these laws are not in effect yet and wont be for a few months. Be safe.
buts its soo worth it for those few successful harvests you get.