"Medical Marijuana"

Last Tuesday on our “medical marijuana decision” posting, we erroneously included Ohio as one of the states allowing the medical use of marijuana. We thank the Cleveland Law Library for bringing this to our attention.

On August 10, 1995, Am.Sub. S.B. 2 created an affirmative defense for the possession of marijuana for medical use. [§2925.11(I )].
That was subsequently repealed on March 12, 1997, also, ironically, by a Senate Bill 2 [§ 2925 (I)].

Senate Bill 74 now pending up in Columbus, in proposing to again re-establish the affirmative defense for medical uses of marijuana [@ §2925.11 (B)(4)(5)], also would enact the fairly lengthy §3701.148 which includes a “registry identification card issued by the director of health identifying the person as a qualifying patient,” [ §3701.148 (A)(8)] and a “confidential registry of persons who have been issued cards.” [§ 3701.148 (B)(1)].