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Louisville Republican Julie Denton filed a bill Wednesday to legalize limited use of oil from marijuana plants to treat children with seizures. The Senate Health and Welfare chairwoman held a hearing earlier this session on the use of cannabis oil to help children with epilepsy. In filing Senate Bill 124 onWednesday, she cited a mother's desire to help children. "Each of you who have children, you know you'd go to the wall for those kids," she said.
Previously, she said her own daughter had epilepsy and was able to control seizures with other medication. But Denton has said she knows of others who aren't helped by the available medicines and are moving to Colorado to seek cannabis oil treatment. "Those children will either die because they have so many seizures on a daily basis and medications cannot control them, or they will be so developmentally disabled that they will have no quality of life," Denton said Wednesday, acknowledging that the medical community isn't unanimous about its use.
Denton's bill would exclude cannabis oil from the definition of illegal marijuana in state law. Its use would be limited to oil recommended by a physician affiliated with a hospital or clinic that is an offshoot of a public university with a medical school. The universities of Kentucky and Louisville would meet that definition. Use also would be allowed for participants in any U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical trial or expanded access program.
The Senate last year approved a bill to regulate industrial hemp production in Kentucky, but more expansive bills dealing with medical marijuana, including one this year sponsored by Louisville Democrat Perry Clark, have gone nowhere in the Republican-controlled body. Denton said the oil is used in drops under the tongue and that patients can't get "high" off it. She said her constituents supported its use in a survey, while opposing medical marijuana generally. Sen. Julian Carroll, D-Frankfort and a former governor, said he doesn't support Clark's medical marijuana proposal, but he co-sponsored Denton's bill because of the benefit to children. "It is something that the people want and will endorse once they understand what we're doing," Carroll said.
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Previously, she said her own daughter had epilepsy and was able to control seizures with other medication. But Denton has said she knows of others who aren't helped by the available medicines and are moving to Colorado to seek cannabis oil treatment. "Those children will either die because they have so many seizures on a daily basis and medications cannot control them, or they will be so developmentally disabled that they will have no quality of life," Denton said Wednesday, acknowledging that the medical community isn't unanimous about its use.
Denton's bill would exclude cannabis oil from the definition of illegal marijuana in state law. Its use would be limited to oil recommended by a physician affiliated with a hospital or clinic that is an offshoot of a public university with a medical school. The universities of Kentucky and Louisville would meet that definition. Use also would be allowed for participants in any U.S. Food and Drug Administration clinical trial or expanded access program.
The Senate last year approved a bill to regulate industrial hemp production in Kentucky, but more expansive bills dealing with medical marijuana, including one this year sponsored by Louisville Democrat Perry Clark, have gone nowhere in the Republican-controlled body. Denton said the oil is used in drops under the tongue and that patients can't get "high" off it. She said her constituents supported its use in a survey, while opposing medical marijuana generally. Sen. Julian Carroll, D-Frankfort and a former governor, said he doesn't support Clark's medical marijuana proposal, but he co-sponsored Denton's bill because of the benefit to children. "It is something that the people want and will endorse once they understand what we're doing," Carroll said.
News Moderator - The General @ 420 MAGAZINE ®
Source: Courier-journal.com
Author: Gregory A. Hall
