Colorado senators have advanced a bill to allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana in healthcare facilities such as hospitals.
The Senate Health & Human Services Committee on Thursday unanimously approved the legislation from Sen. Kyle Mullica (D) in a 9-0 vote, with amendments. It’s one of the latest examples of a state legislature moving to adopt what’s known as “Ryan’s law,” named after a young cannabis patient in California who passed away.
As revised by the panel, the proposal allows health facilities to permit patients who are terminally ill and registered in the state’s medical marijuana program to use cannabis, with certain restrictions.
Under SB 26-007, health facilities would be permitted to develop guidelines for the use, storage and administration of medical marijuana. While the measure initially would have mandated that such facilities allow cannabis use, it was revised to simply allow them to set such guidelines.
Mullica, the sponsor, said at the committee hearing on Thursday that “this bill was brought to me, really, from a patient’s perspective—and really trying to make sure that, when we have terminally ill patients in the hospital, that we try to make sure that they’re comfortable and making sure that we
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