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Lawmaker to introduce bill allowing sale of medical marijuana
By Joe Schoenmann | Las Vegas Sun | September 21, 2010
A state senator plans to introduce legislation to allow special pharmacies in Nevada to sell medical marijuana.
Sen. Michael Schneider, D-Las Vegas, said he has spent a year working with doctors and talking to state administrators about how to craft the bill that he will bring to the Legislature in 2011.
Nevada currently has a 9-year-old law that allows people to possess six marijuana plants that can be cultivated for medical use. Schneider, though, said marijuana is difficult to grow, the current law is not very scientific and it sometimes criminalizes people who seek marijuana for medical use.
His bill would allow compounding pharmacies, to distribute marijuana based upon prescriptions written by physicians. It wouldnt be a one-joint-fits-all model, but would be specialized so if a doctor thinks someone needs a smaller or larger amount of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, the pharmacy would be able to produce it.
"I'd like to see it as a pilot for the state, no amateurs involved, and people who need medical marijuana would get it just like people get painkillers or antibiotics today," he said. "What's wrong with that? There's nothing wrong with that."
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By Joe Schoenmann | Las Vegas Sun | September 21, 2010
A state senator plans to introduce legislation to allow special pharmacies in Nevada to sell medical marijuana.
Sen. Michael Schneider, D-Las Vegas, said he has spent a year working with doctors and talking to state administrators about how to craft the bill that he will bring to the Legislature in 2011.
Nevada currently has a 9-year-old law that allows people to possess six marijuana plants that can be cultivated for medical use. Schneider, though, said marijuana is difficult to grow, the current law is not very scientific and it sometimes criminalizes people who seek marijuana for medical use.
His bill would allow compounding pharmacies, to distribute marijuana based upon prescriptions written by physicians. It wouldnt be a one-joint-fits-all model, but would be specialized so if a doctor thinks someone needs a smaller or larger amount of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, the pharmacy would be able to produce it.
"I'd like to see it as a pilot for the state, no amateurs involved, and people who need medical marijuana would get it just like people get painkillers or antibiotics today," he said. "What's wrong with that? There's nothing wrong with that."
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