| v> | | | | gave Washington an opportunity to activate its old |
| It appears to be unbelievable, but medical marijuana | | | | drug law. Several weeks later, David Catania, a |
| might soon be making its way towards the capital of | | | | member of city council, moved to introduce a bill that |
| the USA, although it’s been repeatedly | | | | would enact Initiative 59, and had 9 of 13 council |
| rejected by Congress throughout the years of | | | | members supporting it. He states that it is his |
| research. It seems unbelievable, but medical marijuana | | | | concern, since the evidence he saw proves a |
| might soon be making its way towards the capital of | | | | powerful medical preference of marijuana, which can |
| the USA, although it’s been repeatedly | | | | improve appetite and lessen pains. With this issue |
| rejected by Congress throughout the years of | | | | going to a federal level, medical marijuana doctors |
| research. Hopefully, soon medical marijuana doctors | | | | and medical marijuana clinic workers will soon breathe |
| will celebrate the victory of their efforts as well as | | | | a sigh of relief. David Catania also says that the |
| will people, whose only hope is medical marijuana | | | | details of the policy still have to be arranged |
| treatment. | | | | — medical marijuana clinic quantity to allow, |
| Back in 1998, Washington electors placed themselves | | | | should they be private or non-profit, which diseases |
| next to the leading edge of the initiating movement | | | | medical marijuana card will be available for, where the |
| of medical marijuana, when they polled about 3-7 for | | | | plant will be cultivated, etc. He tends towards a more |
| physician prescribed drug, which is now known as the | | | | limited realization, understanding that any |
| medicine obtaining via a medical marijuana card. This | | | | legal-marijuana law might be removed by following |
| was a much larger number of people than in any of | | | | governments. |
| the other 8 statewide vote initiatives, which have | | | | Catania also believes that such a system could make |
| been maintained throughout the country. But no | | | | 5-10 non-profit medical marijuana clinics around the |
| festive smoking have then followed, at least not yet. | | | | city, which would at least need to be 1,000 ft. away |
| In place, ballot workers expended that vote night | | | | from parks, schools, and other medical marijuana |
| disguising the voting results, in protection from a | | | | clinics. Los Angeles has had hundreds of medical |
| last-minute amendment of the congress drawing | | | | marijuana clinics, which were privately owned and had |
| assets from Washington, D.C. for the consideration | | | | a 500 foot rule for years. But the L.A. city council |
| of any initiative of drug certification. By the way, the | | | | enacted an amended drug law several hours after |
| election bulletins were printed before the prohibition, | | | | Washington, D.C. enacted its own, applying its 1,000 |
| but it was decided by the D.C. Board of Elections and | | | | ft. rule and reducing the medical marijuana dispensary |
| Ethics that to pursue the purpose of the law, the | | | | number to about 150. The D.C. city council |
| results must be kept back after the votes are | | | | spokesman states that the bill is probable to get |
| figured. | | | | approved by the Congress by the summer’s |
| However, 12 years later the political scenery seems | | | | end. |
| to be significantly different. Bob Barr, the sponsor of | | | | Multiple researches have found medical marijuana to |
| the ’98 congressional prohibition has gone the | | | | be efficient in curing nausea, improving appetite in |
| entire way from a drug hunter to a libertarian, a | | | | cancer and AIDS patients and acting as a pain |
| foremost fighter for medical marijuana legalization. He | | | | reliever, alongside with other effects. The AMA |
| even wrote a law-lobbying once. 14 states have | | | | — American Medical Association — |
| made medical marijuana legal since the time California | | | | initiates for continuous well-managed and adequate |
| did it first. There are some more states moving in | | | | researches of marijuana and associated cannabinoids |
| this direction. In December 2009, the Barr | | | | in patients in its policy statement, which takes a |
| Amendment was silently lifted by the Congress, | | | | thorough stance on the matter. |
| which was already dominated by Democrats. This | | | | |