Department of Corrections public disclosure request

Washington State Department of Corrections

Updated January 25, 2010 -- We received a third and final installment of documents from the Washington State Department of Corrections.

October 27, 2009 -- The Washington State Department of Corrections has a medical marijuana policy which requires patients with voter-approved ailments to "provide evidence published in a peer-reviewed scientific publication to support the medicinal use of marijuana" for their qualifying condition.

To learn more about how and who came up with this odd, legally-curious policy, the Cannabis Defense Coalition filed a public disclosure request for:

  1. all records related to requests and appeals for the medicinal use of marijuana; and
  2. all records related to DOC Policy 380.200, Directive IV, Medicinal Use of Marijuana.

In October 2009, the Department of Corrections provided a first installment of documents amounting to 785 pages. In December 2009, we received a second installment of documents totaling 494 pages. In January 2010, we received a final installment of 491 pages. We are making these documents available online for all to review, in searchable PDF format.

The complete PDF files are rather large -- 45 megabytes for installment one, and 23 megabytes for installment two. We split the documents into smaller files for easier download. All of the PDF files are searchable. It is a good idea to download these files to your computer by right clicking on the links below and choosing save as.

These are big files. Be patient.

Document index

A master index to these documents was created by Lee Rosenberg from Horse's Ass.

DOC request, installment one

DOC request, installment two

DOC request, installment three

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