Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that authorizes medical marijuana products for specified conditions.

Highlights:

• Defines “cannabis”, “debilitating medical conidition”, other terms (Pg. 2-4).

• Defines as debilitating medical condition: cancer, epilepsy, HIV/AIDS, ALS, Crohn’s disease, sickle cell anemia, Parkinson’s, PTSD (w/ proof), MS, cachexia or wasting syndrome, severe or persistent nausea, terminal illness, any condition resulting in hospice care (Pg. 2-3).

• Establishes Compassionate Use Advisory Board with power to review debilitating medical conditions (Pg. 4).

• Requires physicians to fulfill criteria including 10-hour course on medical cannabis prescriptions (Pg. 5).

• Requires registry identification cards for qualified patients w/ debilitating medical conditions; designated caregivers of such patients; authorizes cards for qualified minors under certain conditions (Pg. 6-7).

• Establishes Confidential Medical Cannabis Registry Database; Medical Cannabis Production Commission; medical cannabis supply system (Pg 8-10).

• Requires medical cannabis supplier licenses (Pg 11).

• Prohibits cardholders from smoking, vaping in certain places, including in vehicles (Pg 16-17).

• Prohibits medical cannabis advertising from “contain[ing] cartoon-like figures or attempts at humor” (Pg. 20).

• Establishes Cannabis Research Program; Medical Cannabis Program Fund (Pg. 22-23).

• Limits exclusion, suppression of evidence regarding substances “believed to be a controlled substance at the time of the search” (Pg. 26).

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