A Delaware House committee has unanimously approved a Senate-passed bill that would allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis in hospitals.
About two weeks after the legislation from Sen. Marie Pinkney (D) advanced through the Senate, members of the House Health & Human Development Committee cleared it in a 9-0 vote on Wednesday.
There was limited public testimony on the measure, which is being carried in the House by Rep. Kamela Smith (D). A representative of the Delaware Healthcare Association spoke in favor of the bill’s intent, while specifically applauding revisions made in the Senate to address “operational and compliance challenges” its members had raised.
Smith said in her opening remarks that the measure “balances patient rights and clinical judgment by allowing physicians to make case-by-case decisions—and patients and facilities that comply with the legislation are protected from civil from criminal and from professional liability.”
She also shared a personal story that’s informed her advocacy for the reform, describing how her father experienced “constant pain from from having cancer, and the only thing that bought him relief was cannabis.”
“The physicians, acknowledging that he did have pain, and giving him space to relieve himself of that pain” is part
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