The Delaware Senate has unanimously approved a bill that would allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in hospitals.
After advancing through the Senate Health & Social Services Committee, with a clarifying amendment, the full chamber passed the legislation from Sen. Marie Pinkney (D) in a 21-0 vote on Thursday. It now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration.
“The legislation essentially requires our hospitals to allow patients to utilize their medical cannabis in the hospital when they are diagnosed with a terminally ill diagnosis,” Pinkney said on the floor ahead of the vote. “The hospitals worked very well with me in the process of formalizing this legislation, and so we have created a process where the patients are ultimately responsible for the administration and storage of their medical cannabis.”
“There’s also language in the bill that makes it so that if for some reason, the federal government decides to react to the fact that cannabis remains scheduled drug that the hospitals are able to put this program on pause so that they won’t be at risk for losing any federal funding,” she said.
Under SB 226, patients and their caregivers would be responsible for acquiring and administering
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