Identifying the issues that local and state detention centers would put into submission to distribute medical marijuana to people who have ben arrested as wells inmates, the state of Illinois has passed a law that provides correction administrators the right to deny an inmate’s ability to obtain medical marijuana.
At the beginning of this past week, Governor Bruce Rauner signed his name on a bill looking to eliminate a supposed loophole in the state’s medical marijuana program that some lawmakers have concerns that it would have given offenders with a doctor’s recommendation for medical marijuana the privilege to use pot inside the state’s prisons and jails. Of course, the idea of inmates being allowed to use marijuana scared State Representative Barb Wheeler, the lawmaker responsible for the bill, who made it her duty to ensure “immunity to any law enforcement agency that refuses to give a federally illegal drug” to an inmate.
Wheeler, who backed the Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis pilot program, were concerned that as the list of qualifying medical issues swelled to include PTSD and migraines, there would be an increase in the state’s patient registry, some of which ultimately will end up as inmates at the Illinois Department of Corrections.
To treat this situation, Wheelr got together with Bull Valley Police Chief Jim Page to draft legislation stopping county governments from having to buy marijuana for inmates to use behind prison cells.
Chief Page debated that the bill was need because the fine print of then state’s medical marijuana law would have not just provided inmates permission “to smoke up” however “they’d have a hookah room in jail.”
Yet they’re over a million medical marijuana users in the United States, none of which serving time are not granted access to medical marijuana not on any standard.
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