Patients who have their doctor’s permission to use medicinal marijuana may do so legally starting Monday. The new law, approved by the legislature this past summer, allows qualified patients to grow up to seven marijuana plants for medical purposes and establishes a confidential patient registry. Non-registered patients or those who possess greater amounts of marijuana than those specified by law may raise an affirmative defense of medical necessity before a jury.
Cecile Crowfoot, manager of Nevada’s medical marijuana program, says that as many as 200 patients are expected to register with the state before the end of the year.
Nevada is the ninth state to enact medical marijuana legislation since 1996.
For more information, please contact either Allen St. Pierre or Paul Armentano of the NORML Foundation at (202) 483-8751.
