Colorado House lawmakers have approved a Senate-passed bill to allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana in healthcare facilities such as hospitals—though advocates have warned that recent amendments to the measure undermine its original intent.
Weeks after advancing through the Senate, with amendments, the legislation from Sen. Kyle Mullica (D) cleared the House Health & Human Services Committee in a 10-2 vote on Thursday. It’s now been referred to the House Committee of the Whole before potentially moving to the floor.
Reps. Sheila Lieder (D) and Lisa Feret (D) are sponsoring the bill on the House side, and they made the case for the reform before the committee took public testimony on the latest version, which was revised in the Senate to make it so hospitals could voluntarily elect to allow cannabis usage, rather than face a statutory requirement to do so.
“This bill was brought to us from a patient perspective,” Lieder said on Thursday. “We want to ensure patients have a continuum of care when they are being treated in a hospital or health care facility.”
“There’s been a lot of stakeholdering on this bill in the Senate. Several amendments were passed in the Senate committee without
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