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Board Wants Study On Marijuana Ballot Question!
Posted by FoM on August 20, 1999 at 09:59:49 PT
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Source: SF Gate
The Nevada Pharmacy Board wants the state to determine how marijuana will be obtained and distributed to medical patients if a ballot question wins voter approval next year. 
Keith Macdonald, executive secretary of the Board of Pharmacy, will ask the Board of Medical Examiners at an Aug. 28 meeting to conduct a marijuana study. He says the answers are needed before hundreds of people seek permission to use the drug for medical purposes. The Pharmacy Board wants the medical board to name a coalition to study the marijuana question. Last November, voters approved Question 9, which would allow doctors to recommend marijuana to patients with medical problems. Under the Nevada Constitution, the question must be approved twice before it becomes law. Because 59 percent of voters backed medical marijuana last year, Macdonald assumes the proposal also will pass during the November 2000 election. Five states and the District of Columbia already have approved medical marijuana initiatives. ``We need to decide who is going to get it and how it is going to be contained so we don't get in a mess like in our sister state to the West,'' Macdonald said. ``Our intent is to get an appropriate method for obtaining, distributing and containing the use of marijuana.'' California marijuana backers formed a number of buyers clubs for distribution after its voters passed an initiative in 1996. Most have been closed down by federal authorities. Macdonald said the state should undertake a research project to determine valid uses for marijuana. He also suggested the Agriculture Department at the University of Nevada, Reno, should grow marijuana used by medical patients. Like most political leaders in Nevada, Macdonald opposed the marijuana initiative. He calls marijuana a ``third-rate drug'' for treatment of glaucoma. The drug is far more likely to cause cancer than tobacco, he added. The proposal for medical marijuana was placed on the ballot through the efforts of Americans for Medical Rights. Critics have complained the group is financed by people whose real motive is the reform of marijuana laws, rather than the use of marijuana by sick people. Nevada law makes possession of even a small amount of marijuana a felony, although the offense will be removed from records of minor users if they complete anti-drug programs. (08-20) 08:16 PDT CARSON CITY (AP) Cannabis News- Medical Marijuana News Articles:http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/list/medical.shtml
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