Virginia House Bill 1136 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)
Status: Introduced on January 13 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-16 - House: Left in Courts of Justice
Pending: House Courts of Justice Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Prefiled) [HTML]

Scope of prescription for marijuana for medical purposes. Provides that no person shall be prosecuted for the possession of marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol when that possession occurs pursuant to a valid prescription issued by a medical doctor in the course of his professional practice. The bill also provides that no medical doctor or pharmacist shall be prosecuted for dispensing or distributing marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol for medical purposes when such action occurs in the course of his professional practice. Currently medical marijuana can only be prescribed for cancer and glaucoma.

Marijuana for medical purposes; no person shall be prosecuted for possession when issued by doctor.

Sen. Adam Ebbin [D]

Del. David Englin [D]

Del. Harvey Morgan [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-16		House: Left in Courts of Justice
2010-01-27		House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table by voice vote
2010-01-19		House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
2010-01-13		House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
2010-01-13		House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/13/10 10101776D

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	251.1	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+sum+HB1136
Text	https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?101+ful+HB1136+hil