So it seems the Seattle Police Department has released its specific directions to its officers on how to handle medical marijuana cases.
A couple of highlights:
Seattle police are under orders to focus on community safety issues where marijuana is concerned. If you have medical marijuana authorization (properly documented), it looks like the Seattle PD will take a 1-gram sample and admit it into evidence, but leave you the rest up to your legal limit. If you exceed that legal limit, but, again, have documentation, they'll take whatever exceeds it, but leave the rest. This may include actually packaging a useable supply for you (!).
Prosecutors are apparently reluctant to go after genuinely sick people, at least if those people have made a good-faith effort to get their medical marijuana paperwork in order. Also, Seattle police have been asked to try not to arrest the seriously ill.
And again I say, we live in interesting times. I do wonder whether packaging up someone's medical marijuana supply for them and letting them keep it qualifies as some kind of federal violation, but I applaud the Seattle PD's apparent willingness to make sure that sick people get to keep the medicine state law entitles them to.
