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United Press International; Tuesday May 26 7:27 PM EDT
The Senate Public Safety Committee held a Medicinal Marijuana Distribution Summit today to address the issue.
Chairman John Vasconcellos, D-Santa Clara, said at the outset that patients suffering with glaucoma, HIV, AIDS, and cancer are having trouble getting the drug to relieve nausea and other problems, as intended by Proposition 215.
The California Medical Association suggested asking federal regulators to reclassify marijuana as a potentially harmful drug that can be prescribed by doctors, like morphine or amphetamines.
But Gerald Uelman, former dean of Santa Clara University Law School, responded that it took federal officials 20 years to respond to such a request made in 1972.
Other speakers endorsed local distribution programs, including clubs. But Sen. Quentin Kopp, I-San Francisco, said he can't support distribution of marijuana by local cannabis clubs, including six that have been shut down under court order.
Vasconcellos suggested other options such as rewriting Proposition 215, enabling patients to get access as an experimental federal project, or getting legal distribution methods clarified by the courts.
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