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From: "heimstadt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "ph-l" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 10:20 AM
Subject: Al Gore's Sister - medical cannabis user.
OLD PIECE that I thought I'd pull out given the times
DECEMBER 17, 1999
[note - there are 27 states with Medical Cannabis laws on the
books - see Medicinal Marijuana Laws in All 50 States and the
District of Columbia" http://www.mpp.org/states/index51x.html for
full info]
Thirteen Existing State Laws Permit Medical Marijuana
Distribution Like the Tennessee Law That Served Al Gore's Sister;
Federal Intransigence Stands in the Way
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Thirteen states currently have laws on the
books to permit medical marijuana distribution through research
programs that are supposed to be run by the states' public health
departments. However, none of these laws, which were passed in
the late 1970s and early 1980s, are currently in operation,
largely due to the difficulty of obtaining marijuana from the
federal government.
On December 14, Vice President Al Gore told reporters in New
Hampshire that his sister received medical marijuana through the
Tennessee program while she was undergoing cancer chemotherapy in
1984. "It came in a prescription container with a label on it,"
he said, adding that "it has not been unknown for some patients
undergoing chemotherapy to be prescribed, in the past, marijuana
as a means of dealing with the side effects of chemotherapy."
The Tennessee law was repealed in 1992, and similar laws
have expired or been repealed in 10 other states. However, such
laws remain on the books in 13 states: Alabama, Georgia,
Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New
York, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Washington state, and
West Virginia.
Unfortunately, since the mid-1980s, none of these state
programs has been operating. The reason is that the marijuana
must be supplied by the federal government: Due to the difficulty
of obtaining access to the federal government's marijuana, only
seven state public health departments ever managed to get their
programs up and running, and all of them eventually gave up after
having to deal with numerous federal obstacles year after year.
"Today it is even harder to access the federal government's
marijuana than it was 15 years ago," said Chuck Thomas, director
of communications for the Washington, D.C.-based Marijuana Policy
Project. "Consequently, the 13 state medical marijuana research
programs hang in limbo. Many public health department officials
don't even know that these laws are on the books."
"The Clinton/Gore administration should change its federal
medical marijuana research guidelines to make it easier for
seriously ill people to obtain the substance through state and
private research programs," said Thomas. "The Marijuana Policy
Project will devote considerable resources next year toward
re-opening these state research programs, so that patients today
have the same opportunity that Al Gore's sister had."
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