a new medical cannabis bill has been introduced here in Tennessee. brought up by two Republicans (yes, REPUBLICANS!) the bill would authorize whole plant use including flowers such as those we all love to smoke. kudos to Sen. Janice Bowling from Tullahoma and Rep. Ron Travis from Dayton. one farmer from Sequatchie County showed up to applaud & support the proposal, saying "some of the best cannabis in the world has been grown in Tennessee over the last 40 or 50 years. i need to be growing it..." the bill would authorize 24 facilities statewide, 12 urban & 12 rural, all of which would be vertically integrated. Doctors would not write prescriptions, thereby protecting their medical licenses from the feds, but merely issue cards that patients could use at dispensaries if they had qualifying conditions. not surprisingly, two of the more vocal opponents are former pharmacists intent on keeping the stranglehold that Big Pharma currently has on sick people in need of help.