While patients across the country commend the Maryland Medical Marijuana Work Group's effort to create medical cannabis laws workable for Maryland; we respectfully oppose both of the proposed models: HB 1158 and HB 1024. Both bills are heavily restrictive and, if passed, will create unimplementable programs much like the medical marijuana laws in New Jersey, Washington, D.C., and Delaware, where patients are still left without safe access and are still subject to arrest, prosecution, and jail time. Patients deserve a right to medical cannabis, and HB 1024 and HB 1158 will fail. Ask your legislators to co-sponsor and pass Delegate Glenn's House Bill 15, which takes a reasonable approach to legislating medical cannabis and is based on best practices of medical cannabis states from across the country.
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