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