This issue should be left to the individual city or county to determine.
Local jurisdictions have adopted regulations regarding smoking restrictions. It is important to understand how the medicine works. A seizure patient for example may only have a minute or two to medicate to avoid a seizure. Should there be limitations on the extent that a local ordinance may inhibit a patient’s ability to properly medicate?
Hard to say since a patient's medical condition is not public knowledge. Making it so would violate HIPAA. If a seizure patient's condition were made public knowledge and he thus had permission to smoke in public, any AIDS patient would have to have their condition be public knowledge in all fairness and I'm sure many AIDS patients in Montana would NOT be ok with that.
ReplyDeleteSmoking cannabis in public should be legal where smoking cigarettes in public is legal. Marijuana is being considered as an addition to the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act, making it illegal to smoke MJ inside public establishments.
I have a hard time accepting people's disgusting cig smoke around me when I can't smoke cannabis around them.
Anywhere you can smoke a cigarette outside you should be able to smoke medical cannabis. I think it is rediculous that local ordinances are restricting suffering patients from using their MEDICATION. People really need to start accepting medical cannabis as a medication.
ReplyDeleteYES, Kushy! Medicinal Cannabis IS medication!!!! Patients recommended the medication should be able to smoke it anywhere anyone else can smoke. In addition, patients should be able to vaporize anywhere they need to do so. However, I do think patients can use their medication without being in everyones face about it. turn your back, leave main room...be watchful of children :)
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