A South Dakota Senate committee has rejected a House-passed bill to require medical marijuana dispensaries to post notices at their businesses warning patients about the federal gun ban for cannabis consumers—though members also approved a revised version of separate legislation to mandate that patients check off a box on their medical cannabis card applications to affirm they’re aware of the firearms rule.
The Senate Health and Human Services Committee took up three pieces of cannabis legislation during a hearing on Wednesday. The third bill—which would have added restrictions to ensure doctors have a bone fide relationship with patients before recommending medical marijuana— was also defeated by the panel.
The House advanced both gun-related cannabis measures earlier this month, but the committee only passed a dialed-back version of the less controversial proposal that would now make it so medical marijuana applications would need to feature a checkbox advising people that their use of cannabis under state law still means they are ineligible to buy or possess guns under federal statute that is being challenged in a number of courts across the country.
As passed by the House before being amended in committee, it would have required the patient to sign their
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