Alabama: Following Years of Delays, Patients Can Finally Access Authorized Medical Cannabis Products
“Starting today, lawmakers, regulators, and licensed providers must begin putting patients’ needs first.”
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“This emergency regulation will help more Kentuckians reclaim their lives through safe, nonaddictive medical cannabis.” Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear said.
“These findings add to the already robust evidence documenting the opioid-sparing effects of cannabis and highlight the role legal cannabis access can play in mitigating the public health burden associated with the use of prescription and non-prescription opiates.”
“Liberalizing marijuana laws continues to be a policy that is widely favored by voters. Elected officials who refuse to take action to end cannabis criminalization, or who vote stand in the way of these reform efforts, do so at their own political peril.”
The FY27 bill now advances to the Senate, where lawmakers will decide whether to retain the provision in the final appropriations package.
“Marijuana use under state marijuana programs or other non-prescription sources does not qualify as a ‘legitimate medical explanation’ under 49 CFR § 40.137(a),” the memo reads.
Following these expansions, NORML classifies Georgia as the 41st medical cannabis state.
“Acceptance of the newly proposed rule would mean that no state-legal medical cannabis patient will any longer have to choose between either their medicine or their constitutional right to bear arms.”