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.
Also a big thanks from the big drug companies who love to charge these patients $300 a day for pills that many say don’t work or work as well as medical marijuana.
An equally big thanks for nothing from Kent citizens with “legal” state medical marijuana cards battling MS (multiple sclerosis), AIDS, Lou Gehrig’s disease, shingles, glaucoma, cancer and severe arthritis.
If Kent is a big city compare us with the way big cities around us are handling this issue.
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.
Gregory Worthing
Kent
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