Historic Marijuana

From the WP:
"What’s in the historic medical marijuana bill being unveiled"

 

The historic medical marijuana bill a trio of senators plan to unveil on Tuesday has a bit of something for everyone. The bill, which activists describe as a first for the Senate, would end the federal prohibition on medical marijuana and implement a number of critical reforms that advocates of both medical and recreational marijuana have been seeking for years, according to several people familiar with the details of the proposal. It would reclassify the drug in the eyes of the Drug Enforcement Administration, allow for limited inter-state transport of the plant, expand access to cannabis for research, and make it easier for doctors to recommend the drug to veterans and easier for banks to provide services to the industry.

The following are five of the bill’s key provisions, according to several people familiar with it.

1. Under the bill, marijuana would be downgraded one level in the Drug Enforcement Agency’s five-category drug classification system. It is currently treated, along with heroin, LSD, and ecstasy, as a Schedule 1 drug—those deemed by the DEA to have “no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.” The bill would reclassify it as a Schedule 2 drug, joining cocaine, OxyContin, Adderall and Ritalin.
2. The bill would also make it easier to transport some marijuana between states. While medical marijuana is allowed in 23 states and D.C., another dozen states allow the drug on a much more limited basis. Those states typically allow restricted access to medicine derived from marijuana strains with low levels of THC, the drug’s primary psychoactive component, and high levels of CBD, which is believed to have medicinal benefits. But patients often have no way of accessing such drugs, so the proposed bill would ease restrictions on inter-state transport to facilitate access to such medicine.
3. The bill would also make it easier for banks to provide services to the marijuana industry as they do to any other.
4. It would reform the National Institute on Drug Abuse in order to broaden access to cannabis for research purposes.
5. And it would allow doctors working for the Department of Veterans Affairs in states where medical marijuana is legal to recommend it for certain conditions.

^ I have no problems with making it easier for the sick and dying to get medical marijuana. The Federal Government and every state should allow that.  Hopefully this passes and comes into force^

 

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/09/whats-in-the-historic-medical-marijuana-bill-being-unveiled-on-tuesday/