New Mexico approves medical use of marijuana Mon Apr 2, 7:36 PM ET ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (Reuters) - New Mexico doctors are allowed to prescribe marijuana to help some seriously ill patients manage symptoms including pain and nausea under a bill signed into law by Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday. <SCRIPT language=javascript>if(window.yzq_d==null)window.yzq_d=new Object();window.yzq_d['I5ScFtG_fzo-']='&U=13b559sna%2fN%3dI5ScFtG_fzo-%2fC%3d580845.10298361.11051375.1442997%2fD%3dLREC%2fB%3d4470632';</SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT></NOSCRIPT> "This law will provide much-needed relief for New Mexicans suffering from debilitating diseases," Richardson, a Democratic candidate for U.S. president in 2008, said at the signing ceremony. "It is the right thing to do." The southwestern state is the 12th in the United States to endorse the use of marijuana for medical uses. New Mexico's state legislature is the fourth in the country to enact such a measure. The law allows marijuana use by patients suffering from several conditions, such as AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, according to Richardson's office. U.S. states that have backed medical marijuana have, however, come into legal conflict with the 1970 federal Controlled Substances Act barring marijuana. Courts have said federal law trumps state law. Just last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a California woman with an inoperable brain tumor may not smoke marijuana to ease her pain even though California voters approved its medicinal use in 1996. In 1978, New Mexico began allowing very limited use of marijuana, or its active ingredient, THC, to help control cancer patients' nausea and vomiting caused by chemotherapy, but only when other nausea-control drugs failed. The law creates a panel of eight expert physicians and other health care workers to supervise the program. Qualified patients must be under a doctor's care and supervision, the news release said. "I would like to thank the governor for ... giving me another shot at life," said Essie DeBone, who suffers from advanced complications from HIV/AIDS. Wonder who is going to be the thirteeth state to aprove the next medical marijuana. smoke up *****s!
Connecticut has been talking about being state 13, I've seen a few things in the paper and our governor supports it, our damn attorney general doesn't thou. So who knows, I hope it passes thou, I know a lot of people very close to me with cancer who smoke weed and to have it legal for them would help ease the cost of smoking for sure, as well as not make them feel like criminals for trying to ease their suffering Congrats new mexico!
Oh yea, I heard about this. Sucks, too...cause I just moved out of New Mexico a few months ago, lol. Well, doesn't suck for the state, just sucks that I don't get to partake in it.
The Illinois Congress is voting April 18, I think...just in time for 420. Any IL smokers out there just click https://ssl.capwiz.com/mpp/issues/alert/?alertid=9506826 and fill out what you have to, lets get this passed!
Exactly how it got prohibited 8 or so states made it illegal and the government made it prohibited. We got over 10 were getting there! As long as we can get some medical marijuana it could still lead to heavy decriminalization on the penalties. Wish it was just a 100$ fine