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- From: Jim Rosenfield <jnr@igc.apc.org>
- Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
- Date: 04 Dec 93 00:52 PST
- Subject: CA Med MJ Res Text
- Message-ID: <1484000415@cdp>
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- This bill pased both houses of the California legislature
- a few weeks ago:
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- Senate Joint Resolution No. 8
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- RESOLUTION CHAPTER 70
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- Senate Joint Resolution Relative to cannabis/marijuana
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- Filed with Secretary of State September 2, 1993.;
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- LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
- SJR 8, Mello: Controlled substances cannabis/marijuana
- This measure would memorialize the President and the Congress
- of the United States to enact appropriate legislation to permit
- cannabis/marijuana to be prescribed by licensed physicians and to
- ensure a safe and affordable supply of cannabis/marijuana for
- medical use
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- WHEREAS, Scientific and medical studies by the National Academy
- of Science have shown cannabis/marijuana to be a safe and
- effective medicine with very low toxicity compared to most
- prescription drugs and it has been shown to be effective in the
- treatment of glaucoma, epilepsy, muscle spasticity, arthritis,
- the nausea, vomiting, and appetite loss associated with
- chemotherapies;anxiety and depression and the symptoms of
- withdrawal from alcohol and narcotics and
- WHEREAS studies show that one-third of all cancer patient
- discontinue potentially life-saving chemotherapy due to the
- severe and debilitating side effects and the same is true for
- many AIDS patients receiving AZT or other (sinlilal- ) therapies
- and
- WHEREAS, Most physicians surveyed said that they would
- prescribe cannabis/marijuana if legally available, and one-half
- of all cancer specialists surveyed said that they have already
- encouraged at least one of their patients to break the law and
- use cannabis/marijuana to ease the violent nausea and vomiting
- associated with their current treatments and
- WHEREAS, In May of 1991, the United Nations Narcotic Control
- Board voted overwhelmingly to reclassify cannabis/marijuana,
- placing it back on Schedule II, and making it availabIe by
- prescription, and, the United States representative to this board
- voted in favor of the rescheduling and
- WHEREAS, Despite a federal court order recognizing the "clearly
- established medical valuc" of cannabis/marijuana, and mandating
- that it be reclassified to Schedule II and made available by
- prescription, the federal government continues to deny access to
- this safe and effective medicine and
- WHEREAS, By its own admission, the federal government continues
- to deny access to cannabis/marijualla for political rather than
- medical reasons, and are using patients as pawns in the ever-
- escalating war on drugs by following current policies which place
- message before medicine, convenience before compassion,and
- politics before patients now, therefore, be it
- Resolved by the Senate and Assembly of the State of
- California,jointly, That the Legislature of the State of
- California respectfully memorializes the President and the
- Congress of the United States to enact appropriate legislation to
- permit cannabis/marijuana to be prescribed by licensed physicians
- and to ensure a safe and affordable supply of cannabis/marijuana
- for medical use; and be it further
- Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of
- this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United
- States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to
- each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress
- of the United States.
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