NORML -- Urge Your Legislators to Improve Maryland's Medical Marijuana Law

Despite a successful hearing on March 6, the Maryland House Judiciary Committee has not yet scheduled a vote on House Bill 1040. Please take a moment today to encourage that they do so.

If approved, HB 1040 proposal would allow authorized patients, under a physician's supervision, to possess up to two and a half ounces of cannabis and/or twelve plants for therapeutic purposes. (Read the full text of the bill at: BILL INFO-2007 Regular Session-HB 1040. A companion bill, SB 757, has been crossfiled in the Senate.)

Under current state law, qualified medical cannabis patients may only raise an affirmative defense to prosecution for the possession and use of medical cannabis. They are still arrested and must go through costly court proceedings. Passage of HB 1040 would make Maryland law similar to those of eleven states that have enacted laws protecting medical marijuana patients from state prosecution.

For the pdf text of the bill in all of its wonderful proposals, check out:
http://mlis.state.md.us/2007RS/bills/hb/hb1040f.pdf

I would be covered under the new bill... This is a beautiful day, and even more beautiful if the bill passes...
Purple Banana Reviewed by Purple Banana on . Maryland state government proposes new MMJ bill... NORML -- Urge Your Legislators to Improve Maryland's Medical Marijuana Law Despite a successful hearing on March 6, the Maryland House Judiciary Committee has not yet scheduled a vote on House Bill 1040. Please take a moment today to encourage that they do so. If approved, HB 1040 proposal would allow authorized patients, under a physician's supervision, to possess up to two and a half ounces of cannabis and/or twelve plants for therapeutic purposes. (Read the full text of the bill at: Rating: 5