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Vote keeps medical marijuana bill alive
02.26.07|KRQE com

A House panel today kept alive a bill legalizing the medical use of marijuana.
The Agriculture and Water Resources Committee voted 5-2 to pass the bill.

Its sponsor, Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, said the committee had been the bill's biggest hurdle and he's optimistic it will reach the full House for a vote.

The measure already has passed the Senate.

The bill would set up a program in the state Department of Health under which patients with certain debilitating conditions or in hospice care could be certified to use marijuana.

Patients could not grow the drug but rather would obtain it from the Department of Health, which would have it grown in a secure, in-state facility.

Gov. Bill Richardson supports the bill.

 

Buzzby

Bad plan. It would violate federal law and the DEA would know right where to go to shut it down. There's no way the state could get the needed permissions from the DEA/NIDA.

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TheNewGuy

Sounds like it would be more of a way for the state to make its views national rather than an actual plan to help patients. Well, at least some good would come from it.

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Lothar121

You think the Feds would bust the state?

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Buzzby

Absolutely. They'd have no choice. It would be a direct challenge to federal law sanctioned by a state and carried out by a state agency. The USSC has already ruled that federal laws can be enforced despite state or local laws that contradict them.