Wisconsin’s Senate president announced on Monday that she and two other bicameral Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to legalize medical marijuana in the state.
Senate President Mary Felzkowski (R), who’s previously sponsored a medical cannabis bill, said in a press release that she’s filed the new measure alongside Sen. Patrick Testin (R), with an Assembly companion version from Assemblymember Patrick Snyder (R).
The text of the proposal hasn’t been posted yet, but Felzkowski’s prior bill would have allowed doctors to issue medical cannabis recommendations to patients with one of eight conditions, including cancer, seizure disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder and multiple sclerosis.
The legislation was fairly restrictive, as it prohibited smokable marijuana products and wouldn’t have allowed patients to grow cannabis for personal use. Patients could have only obtained cannabis preparations in the form of oils, pills, tinctures or topicals.
It’s not clear if the Senate president and her colleagues have expanded the scope of the reform for the new yet-to-be-released bill.
“Someone who suffers from a serious health condition should not have to make the choice to travel to another state or break the law so they can try an alternative medicine for relief,” Felzkowski, a cancer survivor, said in
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