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IN SB0255
Bill
Status
1/9/2017
Primary Sponsor
Karen Tallian
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AI Summary
Senate Bill 255 Summary
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Establishes a medical marijuana program allowing qualified patients and primary caregivers with physician recommendations to possess up to 8 ounces of dried marijuana or an adequate supply for treatment, and to grow up to 12 marijuana plants.
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Creates the Department of Marijuana Enforcement (DOME) as a state agency governed by four commissioners appointed by the governor to administer the program and issue medical marijuana cards valid for 2 years.
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Establishes a DOME advisory committee consisting of 4 voting members (legislators) and 5 nonvoting members (law enforcement representative, medical marijuana expert, and state officials) to review program rules and effectiveness.
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Authorizes DOME to issue research licenses to accredited Indiana institutions of higher education and pharmaceutical or agricultural businesses to conduct medical marijuana research.
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Repeals the controlled substance excise tax and marijuana eradication program, and amends criminal law to create defenses for qualified patients, caregivers, and researchers possessing or delivering marijuana within permissible limits.
Legislative Description
Medical marijuana. Establishes a medical marijuana program (program), and permits caregivers and patients who have received a physician recommendation to possess a certain quantity of marijuana for treatment of certain medical conditions. Establishes the department of marijuana enforcement (DOME) as a state agency to oversee the program, and creates the DOME advisory committee to review the effectiveness of the program and to consider recommendations from DOME. Authorizes DOME to grant research licenses to research facilities with a physical presence in Indiana. Repeals the controlled substance excise tax and the marijuana eradication program. Makes conforming amendments.
Last Action
First reading: referred to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy
1/9/2017