SPRINGFIELD —— A stricter set of rules and a surprise political alliance are helping build momentum for a long-thwarted effort to legalize marijuana for medical purposes in Illinois.
In Illinois, doses would be dispensed from a limited number of highly regulated not-for-profits, rather than drugstores. Penalties including potential prison time would discourage attempts to turn a medical prescription into dime bags on the street.
The 'Chicago Tribune' has more.
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If it does pass this time, the bill includes strict regulations which are intended to curb abuse of the program, limiting state legal protection to all but the most severely ill Illinoisans, leaving some in the state who currently use cannabis to abate the symptoms of less than terminal diseases out in the cold. Some progress is better than none at all, but... no one should be imprisoned for cannabis use. -PH
