Following 14 excruciating months of infighting and delays, Pennsylvania legislators are expected to legalize medical marijuana at their next session’s March 14, 2016 kickoff.

Specifically, Pennsylvania’s State House will vote on “Senate Bill 3” which the Senate overwhelmingly approved in a different form on Jan. 26, 2015.

In the interim, Senate Bill 3 was substantially modified increasing the covered medical conditions, limiting the allowable cannabis forms and imposing a “THC cap,” reducing the number of permitted growers, processors and dispensaries, and vesting legalized marijuana’s oversight and regulation with Pennsylvania’s Department of Health and its’ newly created “Advisory Board.”

Medicine of marijuana and “serious medical conditions”

Marijuana contains 85 “cannabinoids,” chemical compounds secreted by cannabis flowers like Tetrahydrocannabinol (“THC”) and Cannabidiol (“CBD”).

Cannabinoids imitate “endocannabinoids,” compounds our bodies naturally produce, which maintain internal stability and health, provide relief to symptoms including insomnia, pain, epilepsy, depression, nausea and inflammation, and have been...