John Westwood voted Nay (Passage) on this Legislation.
Title: Authorizes Terminal Ill Individuals to Try Medical Cannabis
Signed by Governor Gary Herbert
Title: Authorizes Terminal Ill Individuals to Try Medical Cannabis
Title: Authorizes Terminal Ill Individuals to Try Medical Cannabis
A vote to pass a bill that allows terminal ill patients to try medical marijuana.
Defines “terminally ill patient” as a patient with an incurable and irreversible disease that will, within the determination of reasonable medical judgement, produce death within 6 months (Sec. 3).
Authorizes physicians to recommend cannabis-based treatment to a terminally ill patient if they believe, in their professional judgement, that it will provide some benefit to the patient (Sec. 3).
Specifies that a physician may not recommend cannabis-based treatment to more than 25 terminally ill patients at any given time (Sec. 3).
Specifies that the recommendation may be for up to a one-month supply of cannabis, which may be renewed at the physician’s discretion (Sec. 3).
Requires a physician to provide, upon any recommendation for cannabis-based treatment, a document that describes the possible positive and negative outcomes of such treatment, and states that an insurer is not required to cover the cost of such treatment (Sec. 3).
Specifies that a physician does not possess civil or criminal liability for any harm done to a terminally ill patient by a cannabis-based treatment (Sec. 4).
Title: Authorizes Terminal Ill Individuals to Try Medical Cannabis