Illinois House Scheduled To Vote On Medical Cannabis Bill Tuesday

[Jim Finnel]

While medical cannabis legislation is looking very unlikely in the new Wisconsin legislative session beginning in January 2011, Illinois medical cannabis activists are reporting that Senate Bill 1381, Medical Cannabis has been put on the calendar for a debate and vote on the full bill Tuesday, Nov. 30th.

The Illinois House had previously adopted several Amendments earlier in November. If the full House passes the bill, it will need to return to the Senate for a vote on the revised bill with the House amendments. However, a Nov. 14 article in The Southern Illinoisan a Carbondale IL media source, "Local legislators say medical marijuana unlikely to be legalized" rated chances of success low.

Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has said he would sign the legislation if it reaches his desk. The State of Illinois webpage for SB1381 is here. The text of the bill can be found here. For information on how Illinois residents can get involved, go here.



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[ChicagoJoe]

per this tweet
"House vote on medical marijuana... 54 y 59 n. Med Pot fails"
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that sucks

 

[ChicagoJoe]

here's more:
Clout St: Medical marijuana measure fails in Illinois House

 

[thebabyalex]

Lawmakers were subjected to repeated claims that the state would receive thousands of medical marijuana applications every day, or that anyone would be able to get a recommendation by claiming “headaches,” “back pain,” or other relatively mild ailments. One officer even claimed that veterinarians would be able to recommend marijuana – a claim so objectively false it would be funny if sick people weren’t going to jail as a result.

And it is for the legislature to decide what constitutes an "insurable" ailment? The politician and bureaucrat is to control this floodgate, of determining who qualifies and who doesn't. As most healthcare consumers no longer pay out of one's own pocket, and rely on a third party for such debursements, the notion of empowered, self-determining, medical consumers seems all the more quaint in our present age. To be sure, this is very much about the pragmatics of "cost containment". endemic of a need-based healthcare program.

By all indications, the state has already has determined that marijuana is medicine; the mainstay of the medical establishment, licensed and regulated by the state, have seen to it that any other assignation (use) be treated as heresy against the therapeutic state. The church and state of old, as Theocracy, presided over the souls of men; in the therapeutic state, with medicine and science communicating the sacraments of health, it is the body. This is what informs the medicine as principally that of the management of illness-more so in a need-based (collectivistic-bureaucratic) than that of a want-based (capitalistic-individualistic) system of medical services

It is indeed ironic that objections were made on the grounds of "abuse" of the referral system, when, in fact, the very same fraud and deceit happens in "conventional" medicine, to the tune of some 100 million dollars a year in paid out claims by healthcare insurance. This pas de deux, between politician and physician, is the pharmacratic state. A want-based system of medicine, with the power of the pocketbook-and of a purely contractual nature-would be the best hedge against state encroaching on the patient-doctor relationship. This is collective medicine, managing illness, and suborning the individual. And we are to believe in such catchwords as patient "empowerment" and "choice"?!