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Va. legislature OKs marijuana oils for treating epilepsy


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Editor's Note: Good news for this southern state, and especially important is the specification that just a certification by a doctor is needed, not a prescription. (It is still considered federally illegal for a doctor to prescribe marijuana, so this wording eliminates the risk doctors would have to face in order to prescribe it.)  Now Georgia needs to step up to the plate in a serious way.


RICHMOND – The General Assembly has passed legislation to allow use of two derivatives of the marijuana plant for treating severe epilepsy.

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It’s the first effective medical marijuana legislation to win approval in Virginia, according to its House sponsor, Del. Dave Albo.

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Albo’s measure, unanimously passed by the House on Tuesday, allows possession of cannabidiol oil or THC-A oil with written certification by a doctor that it is needed for treatment of intractable epilepsy.

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