Senate and House legislation to permit qualified patients access to medical cannabis if they have their physician’s authorization was never considered by lawmakers this legislative session.
Senate Bill 640 and House Bill 4680 would have permitted qualified patients to engage in marijuana therapy and to cultivate (up to 12 mature plants) and possess (up to six ounces) personal use amounts of cannabis. The measure also sought to establish a permitting process for “registered compassion centers”, which would be licensed to produce and dispense medicinal cannabis to qualified patients.
NORML would like to thank those of you who contacted their state elected officials on behalf of this legislation. Hopefully lawmakers in the future will recognize this legislative proposal as a common sense reform that will increase medical access to those who so desperately need it.
National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws – Advocacy Campaigns
