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Cuomo's Restrictive Medical Marijuana Plan In Disarray As Deadline Looms

Submitted by Marijuana News on Thu, 11/19/2015 - 08:45

Medical marijuana patients and advocates welcomed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s signing a bill last week that would expedite emergency access to medical marijuana for extremely sick people, most prominently children with severe seizure disorders. But the bill was necessary because there appears to be a slim chance that the state’s medical marijuana program will be ready to open by the January 7th deadline.

For it to open on schedule, four things need to occur. Patients will have to register with the state and show they’ve been approved by doctors. Doctors will have to be certified by the state before they can prescribe the cannabis extracts that are the only form of the drug permitted by the state’s medical-marijuana law. The 20 dispensaries allowed by the law will have to open, and they will need an adequate supply of medicine. (It would also help if patients knew where to find certified...

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