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Baltimore, M.D.- such symptoms as pain, inflammation and nausea can be relieved in many cases for patients suffering from cancer and other debilitating illnesses by means of medical marijuana usage. Among those 13 states who recently legalized the medical use marijuana with a doctor's approval or certification there are Maine, California, Rhode Island, Colorado, Vermont and Michigan. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder pointed last week that the Justice Department is not going to raid small dispensaries that spread cannabis for medical use so long as they coincide with state laws; anyway drug possession is still illegal under federal law.
Particularly for these accounts, a bill financed by Montgomery County Del. Henry B. Heller that would involve the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to reconsider Maryland's policy on medical marijuana is a matter of strong ventilation.
According to Delegate Heller's bill there is no need to realize marijuana legalization because it will deprive the drug dealers from delivering various forbidden substances legally. But on the other hand it would provide a working group of health professionals to investigate the legal and practical implications of allowing marijuana to be used extraordinary for medical needs. Moreover it is expected to corroborate officials to maintain resistance of the gaudily contradictoriness in state law so that patients, physicians and operators of medical marijuana dispensaries would realize promptly where they stood.
At present it is difficult to determine the relation of the state concerning the justifiability of marijuana for medical use. Since 2003, the General Assembly drastically decreased punishments if they will be easy to present evidences of the necessity of a medical marijuana possession. Nevertheless, people with substantial sickness can still be apprehended and fined up to $100 for possession, despite the fact they will substantiate a medical necessity. Mr. Heller says the 2003 law has had the uncalculated supervention of giving people a "false sense of security."
Due to the fact that the predominant majority of Maryland's population ages and more people suffer from chronic health problems that could be swimmingly cured with medical marijuana, the sate officials should clearly distinguish the legal and illegal use of the drug that performs a sequacious message to the public. By no means the Delegate Heller is a serious direction towards a settlement of this matter.
Note: Maryland is sending mixed messages about the use of marijuana for people with serious illnesses who are in need of relief. |