Pubdate: Fri, 18 Apr 2014
Source: Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
Copyright: 2014 The Commercial Appeal
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/95

MARIJUANA EXTRACT OK'D FOR MEDICINE

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill to legalize a 
marijuana extract to be used as medicine under tightly controlled 
circumstances.

House Bill 1231 becomes law July 1. Republican Bryant says he signed 
it Thursday, only after Bureau of Narcotics officials assured him the 
oil can't be used to produce a high.

The medicine is used to reduce seizures in children with epilepsy.

It would be available by prescription and dispensed through a 
University of Mississippi Medical Center pharmacy. The medical center 
would obtain its supply from the University of Mississippi's National 
Center for Natural Products Research in Oxford. That center grows 
marijuana for medical research sponsored by the National Institute on 
Drug Abuse.

Bryant says he opposes any other attempt to legalize marijuana or 
products from it.
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