The North Carolina Senate on Tuesday handed a medical hashish legalization invoice, WRAL stories. It marks the second yr in a row the chamber has authorized a medical hashish invoice; nevertheless, the measure died within the Home in 2022.
The invoice acquired bipartisan help, passing by a 36-10 margin. The laws is essentially the identical because the measure that handed the Senate by a 36-7 vote final yr.
Republican state Sen. Invoice Rabon, the invoice’s lead sponsor, advised WRAL that he believes the reforms have extra help within the Home this yr. The measure was by no means introduced up for a vote in 2022.
“The aim of the invoice is to permit for tightly regulated use of medical hashish, solely by these with debilitating diseases … The leisure sale or use of marijuana stays, below this laws, unlawful.” — Rabon, in the course of the Senate debate, by way of WRAL
The qualifying circumstances record to permit sufferers to entry medical hashish contains most cancers, epilepsy, HIV, AIDS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Crohn’s illness, sickle cell anemia, Parkinson’s illness, post-traumatic stress dysfunction (PTSD), a number of sclerosis, cachexia or losing syndrome, extreme or persistent nausea in an individual who is just not pregnant that’s associated to end-of-life or hospice care, or who’s bedridden or homebound due to a situation, terminal sickness when the affected person’s remaining life expectancy is lower than six months, and circumstances ensuing within the particular person receiving hospice care, in response to the bill text.
The Senate-approved model contains stricter guidelines on advertising than the earlier model, permitting 10 corporations to promote medical hashish with a most of eight shops every. The measure strikes subsequent to the Home after a second, affirmation vote on Wednesday.
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