California hospitals now may allow cannabis for the dying, but health care providers worry about federal blowback

Posted by on January 13, 2022

By Susan Wood for The North Bay Business Journal

Americans for Safe Access, which lobbies for favorable policies toward cannabis, is committed to the law being implemented in California and has drafted support policies to help health care facilities navigate these choppy waters.
“They can’t allow Schedule 1 to stop them from implementing (this law),” Safe Access founder Steph Sherer said, further insisting “there are protocols on qualifying patients.”
What happens if patients are denied access?
To that, Sherer didn’t rule out the legal means of getting the law implemented, based on claims of winning other lawsuits against high-profile agencies.
“But we don’t like suing to implement law,” she said.

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