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.

DOC request, installment one

DOC request, installment two

DOC request, installment three