JLR,
Right on Brother!
The hard fought victor for patients rights is never over it seems. IMHO; There are many legal issues with washington state ending the patient and collective law. In the draft proposal; First off they are blatantly violating anti-Trust laws. HIPPA Laws, right to privacy laws, I can go on. The draft proposal was like something from the old Soviet Union no shit. On the LCB website it still has a section from when the recreational law was passed saying the passage had no impact or mandate to effect medical, yet they went ahead and did this draft proposal that has everyone up in arms. This is a fight no doubt, they will use (as you pointed out) the argument that medical has gone wild and out of control. This is mostly false but there are examples they can point too and will. We have to counter. I am going to through something out there, a way to fix this for patients.
A Washington State Association of Medical Cannabis growers WMCG. This would be a private self regulatory group to protect patients rights (from the state). Say anyone who wants to grow medical must follow existing collective laws no exceptions. To do this all (dispensaries) collectives\growers, anyone who has product for donation would need to forced by law to be members of the WMCG. Regular inspections to assure min. regs (outlined in collective law) are adhered too, outlets could only have approved member product for donation. This would need to include product testing and labeling as well. This would end the large medical grows and force them into the recreational world or return back to the allowed limit and become members. Anyone who is a member should be protected from the state. The state can visit the association (one stop) to check records for assurance on compliance.
I know this is idea is not ideal, and some will not like it but at least I am trying to begin a discussion on this. There are alot of smart folks here. Folks please beat this idea around but at the same time propose something better.
DrB