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RainDog

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Fri Jan 17, 2014, 02:35 PM Jan 2014

Medical marijuana bill introduced in Pennsylvania Senate (Tues)

http://www.buckslocalnews.com/articles/2014/01/16/bucks_news/doc52d7153bd5f87169539316.txt

But don’t count on the bill becoming law anytime soon. Gov. Tom Corbett has refused to sign any such bill until the federal Food and Drug Administration approves cannabis for medical purposes.

Nevertheless, the bill’s bipartisan sponsors — state Sens. Daylin Leach, D-17, of Upper Merion, and Mike Folmer, R-48, of Lebanon County — are lobbying hard for its passage.

Leach has launched a social media campaign highlighting children who could benefit from medical marijuana. Folmer plans to hold a public hearing designed to educate his fellow legislators on the benefits of medical cannabis.

“This is a drug we need to get to these kids,” Leach said. “If it were a derivative of a yucca plant, it would be in every CVS in the country.”
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