Mississippi lawmakers have approved a bill to allow terminally ill patients to access medical marijuana in hospitals, nursing facilities and hospice centers.
As state legislatures across the country consider a variety of similar proposals, the Mississippi House Public Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday took a step to advance the reform, recommending the passage of HB 1034 from Rep. Kevin Felsher (R).
Known as “Ryan’s Law,” an acknowledgement of a young cannabis patient who passed and whose father has since become an advocate for access in hospital settings, the bill is meant to “support the ability of terminally ill qualifying patients to safely use medical cannabis within specified health care facilities.”
It would require hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and hospice centers to “allow terminally ill qualifying patients in the facility to use medical cannabis” in forms other than smoking or vaping.
There’s also another carve-out in the legislation stipulating that, if a federal agency such as the Justice Department or the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services takes enforcement action against a health facility over the cannabis policy change or issues guidance explicitly prohibiting the reform from being implemented, that facility may suspend compliance with the state law until
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