Even when it’s legal, it’s not.

Even though the State of Washington has made medical marijuana legal and even though marijuana is continually proving to be a successful medicine the Seattle police department decided to raid a medical marijuana co-op.

The Law in Washington allows for patients to keep up to sixty days of marijauna available for medical use as long as they do it in the privacy of their own homes.  Often these sick patients don’t have the space and resources to grow sixty days worth of medicine so they use co-ops such as this one where they are given the resources and the help to be able to supply them with medicine that gets them through the day.

Regardless of the state law the police decided to raid it due to complaints of marijuana smell coming from the building.  Along with their raid they tore down a wall looking for a pot grow that didn’t exist on the other side of the wall, destroying private property.  If that wasn’t enough they took the plants that people rely on for medical use along with all the users medical records which contains their personal and private information.

We all know that under federal regulation marijuana is not viable for medical use, yet eleven states have decided that the federal law is wrong and have legalized marijuana for medical use.  Obviously this should be changed but it’s worthwhile to note that even while we have sick patients their only relief was a plant that made them feel good under their unfortunate decision we have the government, taxpayer funded, agencies stealing these medicines.  But this is what we have come to expect of the state always ruthless, cold and bellicose without shame.