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Originally Posted by SageTree
This is a seriously valid concern. Which would have to be an exception if WV ever got medical.
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I was homeless for three years, in Compassion Central U.S.A. (Santa Cruz, California, home of WAMM) because the city and county refuse both housing and services to medical marijuana patients. Page Smith provides transitional housing, except to medical marijuana patients. If you are a medical marijuana patient you must 'test clean' OF MARIJUANA for 90 days before you can be elgible for 'temporary' housing.
This is in California.
I would not be housed now ... well, it's a long story.
But I am in the middle of the video of WAMM's last fundraiser for a few seconds. This video was on the homepage of the local newspaper's website for about a week:
palmspringsbum: September 2008
This video is pertinent to the discussion as my speech was all about housing and medical marijuana patients.
All federal grants and contracts require Zero Tolerance "compliance".
ALL OF THEM.
The "recovery professionals" claim their clients will all go out and shoot heroin if there's a medical marijuana patient in the house. And the executive directors whine about losing their federal grants.
I'll say this, I never whined that I would go out and shoot heroin if there was a heroin junkie in the house..