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Advocates ask Connecticut to let terminally ill patients use medical cannabis in hospice settings, push drafting fixes
Summary
Witnesses, including Lou Rinaldi and the state’s cannabis ombudsman, urged the committee to permit dry-herb vaporization in limited clinical contexts, clarify locked-storage rules for incapacitated patients, and tighten the bill’s emergency-care language so hospice patients are not left in administrative limbo. Hospitals’ federal-funding concerns and ventilation/odor questions were raised and discussed.
Lou Rinaldi, who helped create Connecticut’s cannabis ombudsman, offered conditional support for a bill to allow terminally ill patients to use medical cannabis within health-care and hospice facilities. Rinaldi urged three drafting changes: explicitly permit dry-herb vaporization (as distinct from combustion), remove or modify the locked-container mandate for patients with limited dexterity, and…
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