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Senate adopts substitute for medical cannabis bill to ease requirements and create assistance option
Summary
The Senate approved a substituted S.B. 121 that removes a one‑hour DHHS education requirement, relaxes some transport and labeling mandates, allows caregiver attestations in lieu of background checks in specified cases, and establishes an RFP‑driven assistance program to help qualified low‑income patients pay for medical cannabis.
Senator Vickers presented a substituted S.B. 121 containing multiple changes intended to streamline and strengthen the state’s medical cannabis program.
The substitute makes several changes described by the sponsor: it removes a one‑hour DHHS education requirement that practitioners found to be onerous in practice; it eliminates a statutory requirement that products be transported in the original opaque pharmacy container at all times; it permits a caregiver’s attestation in certain…
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