Normative-legal acts to ensure the use of medical cannabis in the United States

Use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes in the United States continues to expand and provide real alternatives to seriously ill people are not always effective synthetic pharmacological drugs.

Not without opposition from the formed during the 20th century, public opinion, the use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes in the United States continues to expand and provide real alternatives to seriously ill people are not always effective synthetic pharmacological drugs. This kind of experience is useful to introduce in Ukraine even if only due to the fact that the level of legal acts lobbied issues related to the ability to use certain parts of the plant for medicinal purposes. Consider the US experience it is expedient for the reason that it is public organizations lobbying for changes to the current legislation of both individual states and regulatory documents adopted at the federal level.

Medical cannabis laws are very diverse. In the United States, where many states have recognized the effectiveness of administration of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes, the local authorities interpret the concept of "medical cannabis" in different ways. For example, the first Minnesota passed a law allowing the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes, but the cultivation of plants and the use of industrial hemp is still prohibited.

Facts American "hemp" legislation in the quantitative measurement:

34 US states in varying degrees, have legalized hemp (including by decriminalizing its storage and use, permitting the use of cannabidiol and the legalization of medical cannabis). In sum, on their territory inhabited by over 200 million people, accounting for about two-thirds of the US population.

23 states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and the District of Columbia), adopted a law on the legalization of their territory of medical cannabis. More than 125 Millin population (41% of the US population).

13 states - permitted use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes, it also decriminalized possession in small amounts (up to 28 grams - 1 oz.) Adults: Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island Vermont and Washington.

12 states - allowed the medical use of psychoactive hemp. The law provides for the possibility of its cultivation by patients at home: in Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, as well as in the states of Maine, Michigan, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, New York Island, Vermont, Washington. In three - Arizona, Massachusetts and Nevada - are allowed to grow their own psychoactive hemp for personal use only those patients who live at a distance of more than 25 miles from the nearest clinic. The rest are obliged to buy medical marijuana in specialized points of sales.

In 11 of the above-mentioned state medical cannabis laws were adopted after the popular vote, when it became apparent that the majority of voters support the legalization of the use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington.

Only 10 states that legalized medical cannabis is allowed to deposit up to 56 grams (2 ounces) of ready-to-use recreational cannabis: Alaska, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Vermont and the District of Columbia in Washington, DC .

In nine US states (Alaska, Arizona, Connecticut, Montana, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Mexico, New Jersey and the District of Columbia) use medical cannabis patients can protect themselves from prosecution by law enforcement agencies for its storage and use only If you registered in the prescribed manner.

In 8 states to gain access to derivatives products of psychoactive cannabis patients enough prescription from a licensed physician (who usually operates on the principle of "the lesser evil"). Get recommendations such patients in Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island and Hawaii, can safely buy your medicine without fear of problems with the law. In the Delaware prescription psychoactive hemp should always carry.

7 US states have recognized medical marijuana an effective drug for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - California, Delaware, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon.

The six states that allow the use of cannabis for medical purposes (Arizona, Maine, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire and Rhode Island), you can buy it on prescription in other states. Residents of another 6 states (Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Utah, Wisconsin) may acquire for the treatment of a concentrated cannabis products with low content of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and high - cannabidiol (CBD).

5 states have "symbolic" medical cannabis laws in which a final decision depends entirely on the doctor. But there is one caveat: the physician has no right to prescribe cannabis, while on the federal level, the substance is prohibited. In other words, the legislation on the use of psychoactive cannabis for medical purposes in Virginia, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Louisiana is extremely formal.

4 US states - Delaware, Maryland, Minnesota and Vermont - do not recognize glaucoma, as an indication to the use of medical cannabis. Another four (Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington) - a conclusion was made regarding the nausea.

Three of them (Connecticut, Massachusetts and Washington) have gone further. It does not recognize psychoactive hemp effective medicine for pain (though its analgesic properties among the first to have been used in medicine).

Two states - Colorado and Washington - allow the purchase and sale of recreational cannabis. Now it does not even need medical advice, not to mention the registration.

Only one State prohibits the use for the treatment of psychoactive cannabis, and alternatively allows the use of only synthetic cannabinoids - Minnesota. The only state where medical marijuana doctor may prescribe at its discretion for any diagnosis is California.