While we cant bring ourselves to oppose any medical marijuana bills, we share similar concerns about the CBD-only bills filed today. Thank you Dean Bortell and Team Alexis for stating it so succinctly. We hope Rep. Klick and Sen. Eltife will consider expanding the bills to help more families. As you know, today 2 bills were submitted for CBD-Only today in Texas. Here is our official statement: “First I want to commend Representative Klick and Senator Eltife for their leadership on this issue. While I believe their hearts are in exactly the right place, I don’t believe the bills filed today represent a solution for my daughter and many other patients throughout the state of Texas. Areas of concern are: 1. The program is run by the ‘Department of Public Safety’ who has until 2018 to license the first dispensary. My daughter and many others can’t wait that long. Also, I believe Health and Human Services should run the program. 2. The bill states ‘No Other treatments approved by the FDA are available’ as a precondition to medical cannabis. This implies we would have to try several dangerous pharmaceuticals, VNS Implant, and possibly Brain Surgery FIRST. That is horrifying! 3. The bill limits ratios on Cannabis oils to 20:1. This is what Alexis’s Colorado doctors recommended as a STARTING POINT. They admitted, given her condition, that we could require a higher % of THC. This bill specifically blocks that. Furthermore, the bill only covers intractable epilepsy and Team Alexis is comprised of over 5,200 patients and families with conditions ranging from Autism, Cancer, Epilepsy, Crohn’s, PTSD, Chronic Intractable Neuropathic Pain, and Lyme Disease just to name a few. As a group guided by science and compassion we cannot yet support these bills in their current form. However, we believe with some modifications a workable solution can be created and passed this session. We thank Rep. Klick and Sen. Eltife for their hard work on these bills and look forward to future communications with them and/or their staff on this critical issue. Respectfully, Dean M. Bortell Team Alexis” Please see the article linked here: thedailychronic.net/…/limited-cbd-only-medical-…/
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:22:31 +0000
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