Sen. Bobby Zirkin says a Senate committee could combine two marijuana bills.
The Baltimore County Democrat believes a measure decriminalizing small amounts could be added to a medical marijuana bill that already has passed the House of Delegates.
The House has passed the medical marijuana bill, but the Senate's decriminalization bill is lingering in the House Judiciary Committee where it died last year. That committee has scheduled a hearing on the Senate bill for April 1.
Zirkin says lawmakers won't "trade commitments," and he prefers for the bills to remain separate. But he thinks it would be inappropriate to pass one and not the other.
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"The medical marijuana bill that passed the House of Delegates this week allows individual doctors to be certified to prescribe marijuana to some critically ill patients. The marijuana would be grown and dispensed by 10 licensed growers."
ReplyDeleteWhat foolishness. A certification process for doctors to make sure they limit prescriptions (more bureaucracy) and ten "licensed" growers (more bureaucracy and opportunity for political favoritism, licensing fees that will be swallowed by regulatory expense accounts, and huge profits for a selected few).
Just like Maryland - OCD and anal retentive.