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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Following these expansions, NORML classifies Georgia as the 41st medical cannabis state.
According to statewide polling compiled by the campaign, over 80 percent of Idahoans support legalizing medical cannabis access.
“For nearly five years, Alabama patients and their providers have lacked the ability to locally access medically necessary state-approved cannabis products from state-licensed dispensaries. Going forward, let’s hope lawmakers and regulators finally begin putting patients’ needs first.”
Over 18,000 South Dakotans are currently registered in the program, with participation having increased greatly in recent years.
NORML worked with union members for nearly two years to assist them in securing the revisions.
“These findings add to the already robust evidence documenting the opioid-sparing effects of medical cannabis.”
The new law opens the Texas Compassionate Use Program to include those suffering from chronic pain and other newly eligible conditions. It also expands the variety of cannabis formulations that patients possess and significantly increases the total number of state-licensed dispensaries that can operate in the state.