A new federal policy regarding medical marijuana was introduced to the legislation today. Bill “H.R. 2835″ will help change the Controlled Substance Act and protect patients in compassionate states from federal arrest and prosecution. The “Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act” will reschedule marijuana from a schedule one drug to a schedule two drug. Also allowing legislation to protect patients in states that have approved the use of cannabis as a medicine.
Growing numbers of research has confirmed the medical benefits of marijuana and its active compound for treating a number of medical conditions. The New England Journal of Medicine has commented in favor of cannabis medical use. The nation’s second-largest group of physicians, the American College of Physicians, weighed in also for its favor in January, since California’s law for legalizing medical marijuana in 1996, 12 more states have also adapted this and 15 others have organized activists aiming to change the laws.
This is a great movement towards the right direction for those legal states. Rightfully protecting the medicinal marijuana patients, treating as any other individual and not as a criminal. Allowing those patients to not fear law enforcement or be labeled as a potential threat because you are a patient.
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February 7, 2010 at 9:20 am
Thanks for posting this article. I’m unquestionably frustrated with struggling to search out pertinent and rational comment on this subject. Everybody nowadays goes to the very far extremes to either drive home their viewpoint that either: everyone else in the planet is wrong, or two that everyone but them does not really understand the situation. Many thanks for your concise, applicable insight.
December 4, 2009 at 11:24 am
Rescheduling will place my care in the hands of my physician and provide the same privacy as other healthcare. I have no interest in sharing my healthcare needs with commercial dispensaries and so-called caregivers (amateur growers/dealers).. Surely there’s no abuse, profiteering or product tampering in the cottage industry run by uncertified practicioners.