{"id":11648,"date":"2012-06-14T11:53:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T18:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/we-have-patients-rights-to-gardens\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T00:25:44","slug":"we-have-patients-rights-to-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/we-have-patients-rights-to-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"We have patients&#8217; rights to gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>First off, 79 percent of Kent voters support these two collectives (May 18 Web poll results, Kent Reporter). The collective gardens are patients helping patients. These are patients who are being productive as well as proactive in their lives. These patient&#8217;s have a prescription for this medication and a legal right in Washington.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Government has no business making medical decisions, that is for a licensed provider and patient to determine. This is clear discrimination. You can obtain your other Rx medications in your community, and discriminating against others because of your lack of medical education is frankly wrong.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The city of Kent was elected by the residents in Kent, not the federal government. They were elected to uphold the wishes of the community and state, not personal agendas. Shame on them and shame on the health care community for failing these patients.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Please know that I will continue to support my patients in the community, and I will support the three council members who listened to the voters of Washington state.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I hope more suits follow for this violation of their legal rights.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013\u00a0Toni Ann Hanskett-Mills<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, 79 percent of Kent voters support these two collectives (May 18 Web poll results, Kent Reporter). The collective gardens are patients helping patients. These are patients who are being productive as well as proactive in their lives. These patient&#8217;s have a prescription for this medication and a legal right in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11648"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}