I'm in Eastern Washington, an currently my medical card is expired. An of course all the laws have changed. But I'm curious how many plants I can have at the moment. I know the state says anyone over 21 can have 4 plants. But does that mean, me an my roommate both can 4 each? or just 4 per house parcel?.. any info would be gladly appreciate ty in advanced!
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Sorry but where do people get this statement from "I know the state says anyone over 21 can have 4 plants"? Washington doesn't allow recreational home grows... This is a misconception I've heard quite too often around me and it's quite bothersome really that no one's realized that.
To answer your question(s), without a recommendation/authorization, zero plants. With said rec/auth, four plants max not being registered into the state database. With recommendation in hand you would go to any recreational shop near you that is "medically endorsed" which just means they take your picture and you pay $1 for an ID card to be entered into the database which allows you to grow up to your "recommended amount". For example I can grow eight as stated on my authorization, but without being registered that number means nothing, the state laws are there and state four max. Now being entered into the database allows any Card Holder to grow the normal amount allotted by the state which would be six, unless patient requires access to more then the states allotted (Cancer, Intractable Pain, Incurable type deal). Then can only you have up to fifteen if recommended by your authorizing doctor. Now this is of course how the law works on paper... In reality, some are able to get the fifteen straight off the top given like how some Colorado patients are getting away with astronomical limits such as fifty and above?... Obviously due to the states illiteracy to proofread their laws for possible loopholes.
Designated Providers as far as I know are just that, can grow, transport, trim all that for you but cannot sit there and add your plant counts together. (two patients get together, one has 15 plant limit, other 6, together logically we think they can grow 21 together, last I recall only the max would be allowed for one person. In this example if both parties were to live there together, guy with 15 limit should grow given his higher limit. Same would go for two people with the normal 6 limit, they could not exploit it by being a "Caregiver" or "Designated Provider" in the same household nor could they have two separate grows tied to each other. Hope this all made sense. If not, example, I grow 6 and a friend is my caregiver/dp and he grows 6 for me also, no matter whether in the same domicile or not, this would also not be legal.
http://www.doh.wa.gov/YouandYourFamily/Marijuana
Best source other then maybe a friendly conversation about MMJ rights and laws within state and also your city you reside in with your local PD, as it wouldn't hurt to ask as they also have city ordinances that can defer any state law as you would be in violation of your city law. Odd I know, but given where I live is a good one for that. We didn't allow Coop gardens or dispensaries even before the legal trend happened, even after the city still stands firm on no MMJ at all. So that leaves me with my own little bit of work to do just within my city laws not just state and federal on whether even a home grow is legal as a patient even.
In a nutshell i502 was a sham, and the original medical law wasn't any better. In theory it helped yes. But reality wise, black market finds it easier to utilize for other reasons mostly just to line each others pockets. It's what's it's pretty much been all along. Every shop I been to pretty much was hit and miss on quality anything... It was sub par weed sometimes slapped with outrageous price gouging and never buy extracts or edibles. Pretty much if you had good bud on you and they (clinics) were interested would buy (donate) your "Medicine" for a appreciable exchange that just covered production costs... An we all know that was a joke in itself. Pretty much, the majority people given an opportunity ruin it for all and now we have big government stepping in, now we all want to back track as if it was any better? Without regulation of some kind or another there's no quality control nor this growing trend towards all the generated revenue we should be seeing... Where did all that funding supposed to go?
https://www.aclu-wa.org/sites/default/files/pie_graph/502_tax_revenue_chart.pdf
There was just a thing on the news earlier about not a bit of the revenue going to prevention I believe? Point is, no matter who's in charge someones always trying to take the upper hand and make big $$$ when true patients suffer due to the strong demand for cannabis in a recreational sense instead of a more medicinal approach to it. An way to much emphasis on smoking when quite the majority of ailments could be treated without heavy sedation/medicated feeling. Except of course the select few and rare cases. But that's the way things roll given current activism movement and legalization not being on point for the people truly in that sense.
Hope this Helps