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Medical Marijuana to Be Legalized
June 13, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Alternative Medicine News
Under the measure, to acquire marijuana a person would have to have a debilitating or life-threatening illness and would need a doctor's note certifying that marijuana would be beneficial. Under the bill, people with multiple sclerosis, cancer, AIDS, epilepsy or neuro-spinal damage, among other conditions, could grow marijuana indoors with a doctors recommendation and a state permit.
Those individuals would be limited to possessing no more than 2Â― ounces of cultivated pot or 12 growing plants.
The patients would also need to get a registration card from the state Health Department.
It has been seen that people like Mark Braunstein, a paraplegic needs marijuana every three days or so to control the pain and spasms in his feet that would otherwise immobilize him. They grow it illegally or procure it through the black market for a very high price which is financially crippling. And because marijuana is an illegal substance, people who sell pot to such patients could still face criminal charges.
On June 1, the Connecticut State Senate, following the House, passed a bill that allows people with certain debilitating medical conditions to grow as many as four marijuana plants for palliative use with the recommendation of a doctor and registration with the State Department of Consumer Protection. If the bill is passed then Connecticut becomes the 13 state to allow marijuana for medical purposes.
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