{"id":9000,"date":"2012-01-04T19:23:29","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T03:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/questions-about-medical-marijuana-votes-letter\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T22:50:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T05:50:40","slug":"questions-about-medical-marijuana-votes-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/questions-about-medical-marijuana-votes-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions about medical marijuana votes | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/135676493.html\" target=\"_blank\">A big Christmas thanks to the three city council members<\/a> who (in a 3-3 Dec. 13 vote) gave an early present to all the gang-bangers and street dealers of Kent by driving seriously ill citizens into their underground world.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Also a big thanks from the big drug companies who love to charge these patients $300 a day for pills that many say don\u2019t work or work as well as medical marijuana.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>An equally big thanks for nothing from Kent citizens with \u201clegal\u201d state medical marijuana cards battling MS (multiple sclerosis), AIDS, Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, shingles, glaucoma, cancer and severe arthritis.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If Kent is a big city compare us with the way big cities around us are handling this issue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>To the three city council members who voted down gardens in Kent I say, where is your compassion, where is your courage and where is your leadership? Your votes to severely limit access to sick people comes across as small town paranoia, small-minded mistrust and heartlessness for your sick citizens.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>Gregory Worthing<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong> Kent<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big Christmas thanks to the three city council members who (in a 3-3 Dec. 13 vote) gave an early present to all the gang-bangers and street dealers of Kent by driving seriously ill citizens into their underground world.<\/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-9000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000"}],"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=9000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9000"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=9000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}