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How To Get Medical Marijuana When Traveling in California

9/24/2007 at 9:45 AM
Tags: Drug Travel, California Travel (all tags)

Last night 60 Minutes profiled the plight of the 600 or so medical marijuana facilities in the state of California. Back in 1996 the state of California passed a bill legalizing marijuana for patients with cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, or "any other illness for which marijuana provides relief." The vagueness of the law has allowed many people in California to abuse their right to medical marijuana, and many enterprising entrepreneurs and doctors to make a tidy profit on opening "caregiver collectives".

This type of abuse would more than likely not be possible if the Federal government legalized medical marijuana. However, the Feds are at odds with California's law, resulting in DEA raids and arrests. Eventually, one would think the law would have to be changed somewhat, either on the state or federal level, in order to fulfill its original purpose of helping those with clear medical needs get their pot. Then again, is this any different than American doctors issuing scripts at will for big pharma?

Whatever side of the debate you are on, if you happen to be traveling to California and need medical marijuana, you won't have a problem finding a "caregiver collective", but you best know the rules:

·All patients must bring their original doctor's recommendation.

·Must have a California State ID or California State driver's license.

·Most upstanding collectives don't charge a fee to become a member of our patient registry.

West Hollywood, San Francisco, and Oakland are California cities with a high number of collectives.

California is not the only state with medical marijuana--AK, CA, CO, HI, ME, MT, NV, NM, OR, RI, VT, and WA have all legalized medicinal use of the drug.

Related Stories:
· Caregiver Collectives in Southern California [at-la]
· Drug Travel Coverage [Jaunted]