Corrections' rule on marijuana criticized

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Group contends it is illegal to keep parolees from prescribed drug

HELENA - A number of people Wednesday criticized a state Corrections Department proposal to prohibit anyone on parole or probation from obtaining medical marijuana as a prescription drug, despite a state law that allows it.

"This proposed rule is illegal," Tom Daubert of Patients and Families United, a medical marijuana advocacy group, told a hearings officer. "It completely defies Montana's medical-marijuana law."

Daubert helped lead the 2004 campaign for the ballot initiative, which 62 percent of Montanans approved, that legalized the use of medical marijuana prescribed by physicians. He said 600 to 700 Montanans overall have received such prescriptions from about 150 physicians.

"These are decisions up to patients and the doctors and perhaps God," but not a Corrections Department probation officer, he said.

Billings Gazette

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1. absolutely

medical mj in states that authorize it is just as legitimate a prescription and medical need as any other Rx med.

unless of course you are the feds, then it's illegal period (darn meddlin' feds)

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. Big Pharma is terrified of legalized marijuana. - It would kill their profits.

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Never mind that even the BEST of pharmaceuticals mostly have adverse side effects, some fatal.

Many prescriptions are for pain and stress/depression.

Marijuana works for all the above and much more,

with no lasting side effects.(might get a wee buzz temporarily)

Just think, if the administration was on marijuana?

No more WARS!!

Imagine that.

[Krivodete]

3. Little by little

I'm glad that at least there is a debate about it. Not too many years ago this would have been unthinkable.