Medical Marijuana Bill Failed in Committee Vote; Reintroduced with Additional Sponsors

The Health and Human Resources Committee of the West Virginia House of Delegates overwhelmingly rejected the proposed medical marijuana law introduced by Taylor County Delegate Mike Manypenny, a Democrat, which was the subject of our recent article in the Commentator.

The bill (actually defeated in late February, 2013) was introduced by Manypenny by him alone. After the Committee's rejection of the bill, Manypenny as lead sponsor, and nine other Delegates, re-introduced the proposed medical marijuana law on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, and it again has been assigned to the same Committee for consideration.

Our prior article on the proposed law can be accessed at this link:

http://webstercommentator.blogspot.com/2013/03/compassionate-use-of-medical-marijuana.html

The re-introduced law can be accessed at this link:
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2961%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=2961