The draft rules allow the sale of smokable forms of marijuana, but still forbid consuming it in places where cigarette smoking is forbidden, or in the presence of minors.
The new rules also would repeal the limit on tetrahydrocannabinol, the psychoactive chemical in marijuana. More than half of the 1,034 comments on the proposed rules had called for raising or eliminating the 12 percent limit on THC content in medical marijuana products. Some patients said the limit was too low to address their needs, but some doctors said it could lower their risk of addiction. Hunter included the THC limit on his list of rules the board likely didn’t have the authority to make.
The draft also somewhat loosened restrictions on the relationship between patients and physicians prescribing medical marijuana. A doctor recommending medical marijuana to a patient must have a “bona fide” relationship with that patient, but isn’t required to see the patient annually or have ongoing responsibility for the patient’s care.
Physicians would still have to ask female patients of reproductive age if they were pregnant or planning to get pregnant and to discuss risks from marijuana to the baby, but patients wouldn’t have to take a pregnancy test.
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