The Cannabis Care and Compassion Act, HB 2330, will be discussed tomorrow at an informational hearing of the Kansas House Committee on Health and Human Services. The measure, introduced by state Rep. Gail Finney (D-Wichita), would legalize and regulate the sale of medical marijuana in Kansas.
In 2010, a bill seeking to legalize medical marijuana failed to come to a vote. And last year's Kansas Cannabis Compassion and Care Act met the same fate.
If the bill passed, doctors would be able to issue patients with "debilitating medical conditions" and designated caregivers ID cards that they could use to purchase medical-grade marijuana at registered dispensaries known as compassion centers. The Department of Health and Environment would oversee the regulation and licensing. The bill, if passed, requires rapid implementation with a provision that calls for the rules governing the application process to kick in within 90 days of the effective date of the act.
Medical cannabis has been legalized in 15 states. Considering Kansas was the first state to ban K2 - a synthetic pot - back in 2010, it seems unlikely that it will be the 16th state to give patients a license to toke.
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I am 59 years old and disabled! The effects of legal marijuane would be very benificial to me! Suffering from spinal trauma and muscle desease. I do Not like what it does to the brain making me almost too messed up. But would love having the body effects of it!
Neither Kansas or Missouri will ever pass a Bill for Medical marijuana. Their conservative nature and old school mentality will always leave them a step behind. Here is a perfect opportunity to bring some much needed revenue to a state looking to create jobs and as usual we will let this slip thru our hands. This is a chance to create jobs and money because big company aren't trying. I sit meetings daily discussing how we can cut one more job out of our plant, not how to get a couple more people hired on the payroll. Our leaders of the country and of our companies aren't stressing the economy to bad they are still making their money. They just just cut another working man
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