THE SENATE

THE TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2010

 

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC SAFETY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS

Senator Will Espero, Chair

Senator Robert Bunda, Vice Chair

 

 

MEASURES DEFERRED TO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2010

 

DATE:

Thursday, February 18, 2010

TIME:

1:25pm

PLACE:

Conference Room 229

State Capitol

415 South Beretania Street

 

DECISION MAKING ON THE FOLLOWING MEASURE(S):

 

SB 2141

        Testimony

        Status

RELATING TO MEDICAL CANNABIS.

Increases the amount of cannabis that constitutes an adequate amount by allowing a qualifying patient to possess 10 cannabis plants and 5 ounces of cannabis at any given time.  Makes identification of the site where cannabis is grown confidential.  Prohibits the department of public safety from requiring that a certifying physician be the patient's primary care physician.  Prohibits certifying physicians from naming or describing a patient's particular debilitating condition.  Increases the permissible ratio of patients to caregivers by allowing a caregiver to grow cannabis for no more than 4 patients.

 

HTH/PSM

 

 

 

 

 

No testimony will be accepted.

 

FOR AMENDED HEARING NOTICES:  If the notice is an amended notice, measures that have been deleted are stricken through and measures that have been added are underscored.  If there is a measure that is both underscored and stricken through, that measure has been deleted from the agenda.

 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 808-586-6360.