Pubdate: Mon, 02 Feb 2015
Source: Tampa Tribune (FL)
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Author: Judy Preuss
Page: 10A

MEDICAL MARIJUANA BILL

Regarding "Brandes debuts medical pot bill" (Metro, Jan. 27):

It is an excellent report on why legislative action is better than a 
constitutional amendment. But it needs to go further in its list of 
"qualifying illnesses."

The bill specifies the eight illnesses often mentioned. Then it lists 
a ninth as follows:

"Any physical medical condition or treatment for a medical condition 
that chronically produces one or more qualifying symptoms. And 
'qualifying symptoms' means: (a) Cachexia or wasting syndrome; (b) 
Severe and persistent pain; (c) Severe and persistent nausea; (d) 
Persistent seizures, or (e) Severe and persistent muscle spasms."

Your readers, proponents and opponents, need to know this.

Judy Preuss

Brooksville
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