Pubdate: Wed, 12 Jun 2002
Source: River Cities' Reader (IA)
Section: City Shorts
Copyright: 2002 River Cities' Reader
Contact:  http://www.rcreader.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/366
Author:  Joe Collins

CITY SHORTS

Some Illinois patients who use cannabis as medicine should be legally 
protected by Section 11 of the Cannabis Control Act. Under this section of 
the code, the Illinois Department of Health & Human Services, with written 
approval by the Illinois State Police, may authorize the use of cannabis 
for the "treatment of glaucoma, the side effects of chemotherapy or 
radiation therapy in cancer patients, or such other procedure certified to 
be medically necessary." Currently, the Department of Health & Human 
Services has no system in place to help the thousands of patients in 
Illinois who use medical marijuana. You can find out more by starting with 
the Illinois Cannabis Control Act at 
(http://www.legis.state.il.us/ilcs/ch720/ch720act550.htm) and then looking 
at (http://www.safeaccessnow.org) and (http://www.Illinoisnorml.org) for 
efforts in Illinois.
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MAP posted-by: Beth