{"id":1509,"date":"2007-04-02T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/richardson-signs-bill-legalizing-medical-marijuana\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T22:40:00","slug":"richardson-signs-bill-legalizing-medical-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/richardson-signs-bill-legalizing-medical-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson signs bill legalizing medical marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhGGngDZmNI\/AAAAAAAAB2o\/5PV9MVPqwl0\/s1600-h\/Legislature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhGGngDZmNI\/AAAAAAAAB2o\/5PV9MVPqwl0\/s200\/Legislature.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048964670436251858\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> signed into law today a controversial bill that would legalize marijuana for medical use.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> pushed hard for the bill\u2019s passage during the regular session earlier this year and succeeding in resurrecting it after the House originally killed it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis law will provide much-needed relief for New Mexicans suffering from debilitating diseases,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cIt is the right thing to do.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/_session.asp?w=com&#038;year=07&#038;chamber=S&#038;type=++&#038;number=523\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 523<\/a>, sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=282&#038;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Shannon Robinson<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, defines the medical conditions for which legal marijuana will be allowed to include HIV, AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and multiple sclerosis. The bill also creates a panel of eight physicians and health care professionals who will supervise the program. Qualified patients must be under a doctor\u2019s supervision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhGGjgDZmMI\/AAAAAAAAB2g\/8lGzQHuDGOA\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhGGjgDZmMI\/AAAAAAAAB2g\/8lGzQHuDGOA\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048964601716775106\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The bill requires the Department of Health to establish rules for considering applications, identifying licensure requirements for medical marijuana producers and production facilities and developing a secure distribution system. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m proud to sign legislation that makes patient care an important priority in this state,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cIt is time for Congress and the federal government to follow our lead and help those forced to endure painful, chronic diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson signed into law today a controversial bill that would legalize marijuana for medical use. Richardson pushed hard for the bill\u2019s passage during the regular session earlier this year and succeeding in resurrecting it after the House originally killed it. \u201cThis law will provide much-needed relief for New Mexicans suffering from debilitating diseases,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}