“It moves us closer to the day patients can speak openly with their doctors and families like mine can finally see the relief our loved ones have waited so long for.”
By Juan Salinas II, Nebraska Examiner
The Nebraska Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee advanced a bill onto the floor that explicitly protects physicians who recommend medical cannabis to patients.
The committee on Tuesday voted 5-2 to advance Legislative Bill 933 from State Sen. John Cavanaugh of Omaha. The measure would grant medical practitioners immunity from civil, criminal or disciplinary action for stating that, in the provider’s professional opinion, a patient is likely to receive therapeutic benefit or symptom relief from using cannabis for a medical condition.
State Sen. Brian Hardin of Gering, the committee chair, and State Sen. Beau Ballard of Lincoln were the two senators who voted no. Hardin argued the bill might be a Trojan horse. Ballard questioned whether the bill was needed.
The committee amended the bill to emphasize that a health care practitioner could still be “subject to civil penalty or disciplinary action” for not properly evaluating the medical condition of a patient.
Tuesday’s vote was the latest in a years-long saga over medical cannabis in
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