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Hudsonvalley82

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Cuomo has announced that he is issuing an executive order to allow 20 hospitals to prescribe mmj. It's a rebirth of a law signed in 1980 allowing controlled substances to be prescribed to severely Ill patients (the language was a bit off, but the law is also 33 years old). State Senator Savino has a bill in the senate that has 82% public support, but failed to come to a vote last year (passed the assembly, but never got voted on in the senate before the legislative session was over), could the exec order force a vote? Even though the hospitals can write prescriptions, an executive order is not enough to create a supply chain, and the legal structure thereof. Thoughts?
 

LIBERTYCHICKEN

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colonuggs

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When States Start selling Rec weed to all over 21 there is no more medical marijuana....just plants that help some people sold in retail stores

All people should be allowed to grow their own

While New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo will no doubt get some political points for sidestepping the legislature and finally allowing medical marijuana in his state, the program is extremely limited and leaves some once-hopeful medical cannabis supporters without options.

Notably: the cannabis that will be dispensed through a limited number of hospitals likely won't be varied enough to include high-CBD strains so beneficial for things like pain and seizure management.


According to the executive order by Cuomo today, patients will be able to access medical cannabis with a doctor's recommendation, but they won't be able to grow the herb themselves and importing strains from out-of-state remains illegal. According to Reuters, patients likely won't even have much of a choice in the pot they are given.

That move disappointed the parents of at least one child suffering from a rare, seizure-causing disorder who were hoping to be able to import a specific strain from Colorado to help their son. Missy Miller says her son Oliver is being left behind by the law, and that the family isn't sure what they'll do if they can't access "Charlotte's Web".


However Reuters (and, it seems, the Millers) also seems to make the assumption that only one specific strain of cannabis from Colorado is able to provide high-CBD medicine. "Charlottes Web", a strain developed by a group of Colorado medical marijuana dispensary owners, certainly is promising but it's become a proprietary brand for the people selling it and clearly they've done a good job of marketing it as the only hope when frankly there's plenty of other high-CBD plants out there and lots of other sources for high-CBD oil.


Not only that, but the plants for New York's medical marijuana program have to come from somewhere, and while technically importing them from out of state is illegal - the mere fact that the plants exist in New York to begin with is technically illegal. In theory, someone could get clones of a high-CBD plant from out of state right now and then filter them up through the medical program when the grow operations start going through licensing and rulemaking.


That would certainly help increase the genetic variety of the plants. But it wouldn't help the still-restrictive program.

Mainly: it will rely on hospitals to dispense the plant - which could put them in the cross hairs of federal prosecutors since hospitals often receive federal funding and selling illegal cannabis alongside federally-controlled pharmaceutical drugs might scare many hospital directors away from participating.
 

DutchKillsRambo

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It basically allows for nothing. Instead of the bill that passed the Legislature last year allowing for growing up to 8 oz, we got this crap.

20 Hospitals are allowed to administer state-wide (wonder how many will be strictly in the city) with no way of even getting any pot to the hospitals. Its a huge joke when I really thought we had a chance at something decent. Cuomo is a fucking joke, but why o why did it have to be Palladino as his only competition?
 

LIBERTYCHICKEN

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When States Start selling Rec weed to all over 21 there is no more medical marijuana....just plants that help some people sold in retail stores

All people should be allowed to grow their own


Disagree , reguardless of politics their will always be medical uses for MJ
 

dopeydog

Active Member
we don't want this law to take effect, it's a bullshit bill. as far as i know it will not allow for anyone to grow their own medicine. i realy hope it does not pass as it would only delay a better bill that allows for growing your own medicine. going to the hospital to get it? that's like being on methadone it's bullshit and with it they will probly tell you, you must take piss tests and see a counselors well, bullshit it is.
 

sensimilla86

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im not a fan of palladino either and i dont see either cuomo or palladino helping out here inthe mm mf fight and do think that we should not vote this in and wait on a better bill to come around for the medical mj in new york bc like it was stated above sounds like some bs to just gain votes and appeal to a specific demographic.
 

RL420

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Cuomo is a fucking scumbag. He wont be the one to help us free the weed thats for sure.
 
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