No Self Grow...no Caregivers but big Farm and Big Pharma....and a lot of tax going to the writers profession..or past profession? Mr. Ellis still has a Farm also....and I believe has a new bill in waiting at this time.....below bill failed.....as it should have. And if this one is any indication of the new one it should fail also in my humble but interesting and loaded with self esteem mind, right Mr. Ellis? Bernie Ellis, MA, MPH Principal Consultant TN Safe Access to Medical Cannabis Act democraticunderground/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=179x5073Support the TN Safe Access to Medical Cannabis Act (SB 2511/ HB 2562) Here in Tennessee, our legislature is soon to begin debate on the "Safe Access to Medical Cannabis" Act. I am really proud to be the author of the legislation, as it is the logical progression of a model for returning cannabis to the medical pharmacopoeia that I helped initiate eight years ago in New Mexico. To date, about a half dozen other states have decided to license large-scale cannabis dispensaries to serve their patients and to try to divorce medical cannabis from the illicit market. Our Tennessee program will do that. If enacted, the Safe Access program will be a state-managed endeavor that will be the most tightly controlled medical cannabis program in the country, and the most patient-friendly. It will also provide medical cannabis at $60/ounce, with one-third of that amount coming back to the state to fully fund the program, with excess revenues going into indigent health care and substance abuse treatment. If we pass this legislation, we will be the first Southern state to do so. Bernie Ellis, MA, MPH Principal Consultant TN Safe Access to Medical Cannabis Act Under the Safe Access program, farmers will be trained, supervised and licensed by the Tennessee Department of Agriculture to produce medical cannabis under secure, safe specifications; including growing only strains of known chemical composition to make sure that the medicine is safe, reliable and targeted to provide maximum relief to patients suffering a discrete set of serious medical conditions. Farmers will be allowed to sell their medical cannabis only to licensed distributors, who will process, package and distribute the cannabis under the strict supervision of the Tennessee Department of Health. These licensed distributors will be allowed to sell medical cannabis only to participating pharmacies that will participate in the program under the strict supervision of the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy. Eligible patients will obtain medical cannabis from these pharmacies with a recommendation from their health practitioners and without the need to go through a separate review and approval process. Medical cannabis through the Safe Access program will be sold for $60/ounce, with $30 of that amount going to the farmer, $10 to the distributor and pharmacist and $20 to the state to fund the program, with excess revenues going to indigent health care and substance abuse treatment. Even with this low pricing (one-fourth to one-tenth what illegal cannabis of similar quality costs), the Safe Access program will provide significant revenues to farmers and the state from its inception.
Posted on: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 05:36:43 +0000
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