Jim Finnel
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex News Moderator
Alabama - A legislative committee approved a bill Wednesday that would legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes.
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, said the bill had no real chance of being approved by both the House and Senate before the end of the session.
The bill is called the Michael Phillips Compassionate Care Act, named after a man with a brain tumor that caused frequent seizures and fought to make medical marijuana legal. Philips died in 2007 at the age of 38.
Jackie Phillips, Michael Phillips’ mother, said marijuana was the only thing that made him able to function normally.
Without it, she said, he had seven or eight seizures a day.
“I could see the difference in him when he smoked and when he didn’t,” Phillips said.
Under the bill, patients would be required to have an identification card to purchase and possess marijuana.
The bill would allow for the licensing of clinics where patients legally could obtain marijuana.
The House Judiciary Committee made several amendments to the bill, including making the fees for ID cards high enough to cover the extra costs the bill would create.
Several members of the committee expressed concerns with the bill.
Rep. Yusuf Salaam, D-Selma, said he worries that the bill would make it possible for people to use marijuana illegally under the pretense of using it medically.
Salaam said, however, that he did not dislike the bill enough to try to kill it before it left the committee.
NewsHawk: User: 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: montgomeryadvertiser.com
Author: Scott Johnson
Copyright: 2010 Montgomery Advertiser
Contact: Montgomery Advertiser
Website: Committee approves medical marijuana bill
• Thanks to MedicalNeed for submitting this article
The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Patricia Todd, D-Birmingham, said the bill had no real chance of being approved by both the House and Senate before the end of the session.
The bill is called the Michael Phillips Compassionate Care Act, named after a man with a brain tumor that caused frequent seizures and fought to make medical marijuana legal. Philips died in 2007 at the age of 38.
Jackie Phillips, Michael Phillips’ mother, said marijuana was the only thing that made him able to function normally.
Without it, she said, he had seven or eight seizures a day.
“I could see the difference in him when he smoked and when he didn’t,” Phillips said.
Under the bill, patients would be required to have an identification card to purchase and possess marijuana.
The bill would allow for the licensing of clinics where patients legally could obtain marijuana.
The House Judiciary Committee made several amendments to the bill, including making the fees for ID cards high enough to cover the extra costs the bill would create.
Several members of the committee expressed concerns with the bill.
Rep. Yusuf Salaam, D-Selma, said he worries that the bill would make it possible for people to use marijuana illegally under the pretense of using it medically.
Salaam said, however, that he did not dislike the bill enough to try to kill it before it left the committee.
NewsHawk: User: 420 MAGAZINE ® - Medical Marijuana Publication & Social Networking
Source: montgomeryadvertiser.com
Author: Scott Johnson
Copyright: 2010 Montgomery Advertiser
Contact: Montgomery Advertiser
Website: Committee approves medical marijuana bill
• Thanks to MedicalNeed for submitting this article
Go Bama!!!
