NC House Bill 1380--The Medical Marijuana Act!

You read that right...North Carolina is in the process of voting on House Bill 1380, known as the Medical Marijuana Act!

Below is a link to a copy of the bill.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/Sessions...L/H1380v0.html

This next link is for the North Carolina General Assembly official site, with dates and details of the bills progression.

http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/gascript...ubmitButton=Go

Here's a quote from the bill--article 3

"(3) The United States Department of Health and Human Services, through the Compassionate Investigational New Drug (IND) program, provides marijuana by prescription to a number of individuals for their use as medicine. The marijuana is grown at the federal marijuana research garden at the University of Mississippi and is processed and distributed by the Research Triangle Institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The patients receive the marijuana monthly in canisters of approximately 300 prerolled cigarettes. The dosage for patients in the IND program ranges from seven to nine grams per day. Since the program's inception in 1978, patients in the IND program have received and consumed approximately 6.5 pounds of marijuana per year, thereby establishing a safe and effective dosage for chronic daily‑use patients to possess and consume. The IND program was closed to new applicants in 1991."

So the government has been growing it at the University of Mississippi? And selling it to the Research Triangle in North Carolina? They've been investigating since 1978? You get 300 pre-rolled cigarettes monthly, with average patients using daily doses from 7 to 9 grams? 6.5 lbs/year?

Here's a couple more highlighted sections from the bill...

(1) "Adequate supply" means an amount of marijuana possessed by a qualified patient or collectively possessed by a qualified patient and the qualified patient's designated caregiver that is not more than is reasonably necessary to assure the uninterrupted availability of marijuana for the purpose of alleviating the symptoms or effects of qualifying patient's debilitating medical condition and that is derived solely from the intrastate source; provided that an "adequate supply" shall not exceed a garden with up to 100 square feet of total garden canopy of mature female marijuana plants, measured by the combined vegetative growth area, and 24 ounces of usable marijuana. If usable marijuana is added as an ingredient to food, salve, tincture, or any other preparation to be consumed or used by a registered qualifying patient, the weight of the other ingredients that are not usable marijuana shall not be included for purposes of determining whether a registered qualified patient possesses more usable cannabis than permitted under this section.
(4) "Debilitating medical condition" means:
a. Cancer; glaucoma; positive status for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); hepatitis C; porphyria; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; Alzheimer's disease; nail patella syndrome; rheumatoid arthritis; fibromyalgia; severe migraines; multiple sclerosis; Crohn's disease; injury or disease to the spinal cord, spinal column, or vertebra; mylomalacia; celiac disease; or the treatment of such conditions;
b. A chronic or debilitating disease or medical condition or its treatment that produces one or more of the following: cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe pain; severe nausea; anorexia; seizures, including those characteristic of epilepsy; or severe and persistent muscle spasms, including those characteristic of multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease or ALS), or Crohn's disease; or
c. Any other serious medical or mental condition or its treatment approved by a licensed physician.
( "Licensed medical marijuana producer" or "producer" means a person or an entity licensed to produce marijuana, marijuana plants, and marijuana seeds for dispensaries. A licensed medical marijuana producer may be an individual North Carolina resident and the employees of the individual or a licensed dispensary and the directors and employees of the dispensary.


Please urge your local representative(s) to vote yes on house bill 1380! We need all the support we can get! It has already passed the first vote in the house! Don't let it die in the senate!

I read this morning on another forum that the next round of voting happens this thursday, 4/16/09...

So get those emails in ASAP!