HOMEGROW Policy DREAMS: what Patients Want
LAMMJ Advocates for Patients:
(6) Six Mature Plants per Patient
(6) Seedlings + (6) Clones per Patient
Up to (2) Two Patients per Household
(12) Twelve Flowering Plants per Household
LAMMJ Advocates for Caregiver HOMEGROW
Up to (6) Six Patients
(8) Eight Mature Plants + (8) Eight Seedlings
+ (8) Eight Clones Per Patient
50 Flowering Plants Total Allowed
** Caregivers may donate up to (6) six plants and their fruit to veterans, minors, adults living in lifelong tutorships, or patients living below the National Poverty Standard, earning les than $35,000 a year.
Common FEES Other States Implement
PATIENT HOMEGROW REGISRATION FEES
Good for 24 Months
$100 Patient HOMEGROW Registration
Up to (2) Patients per Household, Max 12 Plants
**FREE HOMEGROW Registration for veterans, patients under 21 years of age, or adults in lifelong tutorships
CAREGIVER HOMEGROW FEES
Good for 24 Months
**50% Caregiver HOMEG$100 Up to (3) Three Patients
$300 (4) Four - (6) Six Patients
ROW Registration if patient roster includes for veterans, adults living in lifelong tutorships, or minors.
HOMEGROW Hopes + Dreams
Why it Matters?
NORML has long maintained that patient home-cultivation rights must be included in medical access laws, stating: “NORML supports the right of individuals to grow their own cannabis as an alternative to purchasing it from licensed commercial producers. NORML maintains that the inclusion of legislative provisions protecting the non-commercial home cultivation of cannabis serves as leverage to assure that the product available at retail outlets is high quality, safe, and affordable. Further, many patients respond best to specific strains of the cannabis plant. Permitting select patients the option to produce these specific strains at home assures that they will have an uninterrupted and cost-effective supply of the medicine that is best suited to their own particular therapeutic needs.”
Recent Medical Marijuana Clinical Research
Patient-centered Medical Cannabis Policies
Obtained from: https://norml.org/marijuana/fact-sheets/core-attributes-of-a-patient-centric-medical
Medical Cannabis Patients’ Bill of Rights
As more states legislatively address the topic of regulating medical cannabis access and distribution, NORML has seen a shift away from patient-focused programs and toward more politically expedient policies. These latter programs are neither evidence-based nor do they adequately address patients’ needs.
NORML contends that an effective, patient-centric, evidence-based medical cannabis program must include the following core tenets:
- Access to whole-plant cannabis;
- Limited taxes and fees;
- Wide latitude for doctors to decide treatment regimens;
- Personal cultivation rights;
- Employment protections;
- And other reasonable civil statutory protections.
- Patients must be legally able to obtain and possess herbal formulations of whole-plant cannabis that may be administered via inhalation/vaporization; their therapeutic choices must not be limited solely to orally administered cannabis-derived extracts, oils, or pills
- Patients must not be forced to pay unreasonable taxes and fees
- The approved list of qualifying conditions must be expansive and must allow physicians the option to recommend cannabis therapy for the treatment of chronic pain
- Registered patients ought to have the legal option to cultivate personal use quantities of cannabis in their own private residence
- Registered patients should not be arbitrarily prohibited from accessing higher potent THC products
- Patients should not face either workplace discrimination or sanctions solely based upon their medical cannabis status
- Patients should not be withheld medical treatment in hospitals — such as being denied organ transplants — solely based upon their status as a medical cannabis patient
