Farmer Stealth
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hope this works out! might be just the thing to tip the balance in tennessee! as Virginia goes, goes the South! AOH
Hopefully WAY south!
hope this works out! might be just the thing to tip the balance in tennessee! as Virginia goes, goes the South! AOH
HB 1134 Marijuana; decriminalizes simple possession thereof, civil penalty ...
01/27/10 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
vote has been done and sorry to say but both failed
is it possible to get a bill put to a vote in Virginia like they did in california ? bypass the nazi's in office & take it directly to the voters with petitions?
Unfortunately, like most eastern states, Virginia doesn't have initiatives or referenda. No direct democracy here. Only "representative" government.
That's why it's even more important for you to contact your officials out east.
That's too bad because it's going to take the voters to legalize marijuana in my opinion. The lawmakers don't have the guts to do the right thing.
so what they need is a sick person with balls & a lawyer willing to test the limits to see if a judge will be willing to say "if it is ok for THESE diseases, how can it be illegal for THESE ?"
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A. No person shall be prosecuted under § 18.2-250 or § 18.2-250.1 for the possession of marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol when that possession occurs pursuant to a valid prescription issued by a medical doctor in the course of his professional practice for treatment of cancer or glaucoma.
B. No medical doctor shall be prosecuted under § 18.2-248 or § 18.2-248.1 for dispensing or distributing marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol for medical purposes when such action occurs in the course of his professional practice for treatment of cancer or glaucoma.
C. No pharmacist shall be prosecuted under §§ 18.2-248 to 18.2-248.1 for dispensing or distributing marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol to any person who holds a valid prescription of a medical doctor for such substance issued in the course of such doctor's professional practice for treatment of cancer or glaucoma.
(1979, c. 435.)
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+coh+18.2-251.1+702188
"Medical marijuana is now legal in Virginia. With President Obama directing the feds to adhere to state laws in enforcement of anti-marijuana laws, that presumably leaves doctors free to prescribe it under §18.2-251.1, which the General Assembly passed in 1979."
the problem is, under Federal Law marijuana is a Schedule I substance and doctors simply cannot write a prescription for a Schedule I substance, nor would a pharmacy be able to distribute that Schedule I substance. You need a DEA license to do that, and guess what they're impossible to get. The medical law that they were trying to pass in VA didn't even address this issue; they can add all the qualifying conditions in the world and it doesn't mean jack shit if the doctor can't properly "recommend" it (rather than prescribe it) to his patient.