my name is karen huggins and thank you very much for your time. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. pleasure to speak before you. today i come with a 5% compassion coalition, a coalition comprised of patient advocates in san francisco who do direct patient services for medical cannabis patients to help you understand the need and urgency of compassionate care for homeless and medical cannabis patients. first i'd like to give you some backgrounds and a decade worth of work and eliminate the fact this is not a fair [speaker not understood] issue by the current national movement that was defined here in san francisco. equity in health care is not a privilege, but a right. i don't stand here as a marginalized advocate. i stand before you with groundwork done and support not only of our task force, but the support of our board of supervisors' unanimous vote in 2006. a current report from the planning department support and had voted sent to the board to be heard by the planning commission. the entire state of maryland, our nation's capital washington, d.c., and berkeley have ensured no.