Pa. bill would loosen rules on prescribing medical marijuana
Under the proposal, patients would be entitled to use marijuana for any medical condition if their doctors determine they could benefit from it. In a cosponsor memo, Sen. Mike Regan, R-Cumberland, and Sen. James Brewster, D-Allegheny, said that “elected officials and bureaucratic staffers should not be deciding what ailment qualifies an individual to use medical marijuana.”
The proposal from Mr. Regan and would be similar to the medical marijuana rules in Oklahoma. The Marijuana Policy Project says almost 10% of Oklahoma’s population were medical marijuana patients in 2021. If that percentage were repeated in Pennsylvania, there’d be about 1.2 million medical marijuana patients.
The new proposal comes as Pennsylvania is becoming increasingly surrounded by states where any adult can legally obtain marijuana but efforts to relax the state’s marijuana laws for adult recreational marijuana use have been stymied by opposition from Republican lawmakers. While Democrats are poised to take the majority in the state House and could advance a marijuana legalization bill, Republicans hold the majority in the Senate.
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This is a good idea, am I right?
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... a shit-ton of money once that happens. They're the ones donating to the Repuke Senators who are fighting full legalization. But eventually your scenario will play out, when the online MM docs get promised a cut of the profits.
Then you pay a licensed doctor (up to an additional $250) for an online consultation to get the "prescription." Then you buy the medical marijuana or PCB oil from the recommended vendor. This is all done by credit card and it rules out anyone who can't afford this procedure, as well as anyone without a permanent residence, internet access, or credit card.
It's not a simple process, and a lot of Pennsylvanians are excluded from getting medical marijuana.
Did you ever stop to think about this: what is the state doing with the names of people who apply for the Medical Marijuana cards?
