Illinois Medical Marijuana Patients Try Again
Back in May we reported the Medical Cannabis Advisory Board’s recommendation to include eleven additional chronic and debilitating conditions to the Department of Public Health’s approved list of qualifying conditions under Illinois’ Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. The Board’s recommendation paved the way for the Department of Public Health Director to add his stamp of approval. Then, after rule making, the conditions would fully be a part of the Act. In May, we were hopeful for the sake of both patients and industry participants that the new conditions would pass muster and the Rauner administration would sign off. Hopes were dashed, however, last month when the administration inexplicably rejected all of the Board’s recommendations, stating merely that the qualifying conditions would “remain unaltered.”
Hope springs eternal though. The Act calls for the Board to convene twice annually to consider patient petitions for the addition of new qualifying conditions. The second...
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