Medical marijuana suffers major blow in Senate

Lohud

Senate Finance Committee chairman John DeFrancisco said today he has no plans to move a bill that would legalize medical marijuana out of his committee, saying too many uncertainties remain about the drug.

"The Savino bill will not come out of my committee, the Finance Committee," he said. "You don’t have any kind of reasonable research on the effects. You have people coming in here every day trying to ban e-cigarettes and use of tobacco in other ways."

DeFrancisco said he and other members of the Republican conference have concerns about the legislation as the session nears an end next week. He said there may be support for legislation that would not allow medical marijuana to be smoked, but to be used in other forms, such as oil, mainly to help children with seizures or other debilitating diseases.

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