Milton joins list backing medical marijuana

Milton Borough has become the third Valley municipality to support medical marijuana in Pennsylvania.

Borough Council voted 8-2 last week to urge state House members to vote in favor of state Senate Bill 3, which would legalize medical marijuana in the state. Council Vice President Linda Meckley and Councilman Charles Swartz voted no.

Neither Meckley nor Swartz could be reached for comment.

Selinsgrove Borough Council voted 4-3 earlier this month to endorse the bill adopted May 22 by the state Senate and sent on to the state House. The Danville Borough Council later voted 5-3 to not consider it. On Tuesday night, Lewisburg Borough Council voted 6-1 in support of the proposal.

The bill, if passed into law, would allow doctors to prescribe medical marijuana for 15 medical conditions, including cancer, epilepsy and seizures, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, HIV/AIDS and glaucoma.

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