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Originally Posted by QuickSilver  By the same token, handicapped people are not directly hurt if someone lies about having a therapy dog, because it's not like the lie makes it legal to refuse service dogs the next time. I believe it would actually be illegal for Walmart (or any other vendor) to refuse to allow entry to someone with a service dog. It's not up to the discretion of the business, it's a law. And here at least, service dogs have some type of official documentation that can be produced on demand. If Walmart questions a service dog, they can ask to see proof.
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Sometimes the way these threads move around is fascinating, you really do have to read the entire thread to keep up!
To clarify the above. It is illegal for any vendor including Walmart to even ask to see any documentation on a service animal. That is why it is so easy to abuse. It is a huge violation if, once they are informed verbally or by seeing the vest on the dog, that they ask any additional questions or ask for any paperwork of any kind. So, yeah, not only is it illegal to allow entry it is illegal to ask any questions. The reason is to protect the privacy and rights of the disabled. Abusing the right doesn't immediately impact the rights of disabled, but on a moral and ethical stand it erodes the rights that they've fought for and eventually, if abused enough will cause those rights to be impeded. Enough dogs parading as service animals carry fleas or bark in restaurants or not act as a trained animal should and watch what happens. They will begin to be allowed to demand documentation and that will cause those that have real disabilities issues they do not deserve.
And I do happen to believe that abuse of marijuana prescriptions has negatively impacted the passage of medical marijuana laws in other states. The doctors at the VA have put my DH on everything imaginable including pure morphine for his issues and they believe that medical marijuana would be the one thing that would help. This for a man that loathes medications of any kind and only tried pot once in 6 decades, I guess if he got it I'd have to bake brownies...anyway, they'll never legalize it in this state due to the problems in California, so yes, it does have an affect.
I'll return you to your regularly scheduled programming....
