A bill to allow terminally ill patients in Washington State to use medical cannabis in healthcare facilities such as hospitals, nursing homes and hospices was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Shelley Kloba (D), cleared the chamber in a vote of 89-6 and now heads to the Senate for consideration.
“This allows for uniformity across hospitals,” Kloba said on the floor ahead of the vote. “It balances the needs of hospitals for safe storage for any of the needs that they have, and it balances that with the patient’s ability to try something maybe outside of standard pharmacological treatment in order to have the kind of comfort and dignity at the end of their life that they deserve.”
At a committee hearing on the measure last month, the sponsor said the legislation “builds on what we have as a decades-long experience with medical cannabis, in very controlled kind of environment.”
If enacted into law, HB 2152 would mandate that hospitals and other specified healthcare facilities allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana on the premises beginning on January 1, 2027, subject to certain rules and restrictions.
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