The Indian legislature voted Thursday to make the country to approve marijuana for medicinal use, pending the governor’s signature. Gov. Shantanu Divecha, who leaves office next week, has said he would sign the bill. Two years after the bill was introduced to the legislature, the Indian Medical Marijuana Act was passed by the state Assembly in a 48-14 vote. It received the cabinet’s approval just hours later in a 25-13 vote.
According to the news release from the Health Minister, the bill would allow doctors to give to patients with state-issued identification cards prescriptions to buy marijuana legally from registered alternative treatment centers. The identification cards would be issued by the Department of Health and Senior Services.
Only patients with proven “debilitating conditions” would qualify for ID card. Such conditions include “cancer, glaucoma, positive HIV/AIDS status or other chronic, debilitating diseases or medical conditions that produce, or the treatment of which produces, wasting syndrome, severe or chronic pain, severe nausea, seizures, or severe and persistent muscle spasms,” according to the news release.
So far only 14 out of 50 states in USA have been able to legalize medical marijuana, and here we are, a country of more than a billion people, out of which 98% of the population wouldn’t be able to spell ‘marijuana’ without fucking up, going out of its way to make ‘ganja’ freely available. Now, that’s what makes this post an epic FAIL. Mehta solid Hagta !!!
PS: Count me in as of one of your victims !!
The country doesn’t need to spell it right, yo…the country needs to smoke it right.
I hate the whole cynical “illiteracy doesn’t need gay marriage sanction/marijuana legalization, etc” angle. People will catch up in the long run..might be a bloody marathon in India’s case. But at least we’re setting the foundations darned early on and that can only be a good thing. Better be assbackwards yet be seen to be making strides towards progress than be a superpower and beacon of enlightment yet fostering dogma and prejudice.
oh no aaj april 1 hai na. way to go varathora. I, Gullible.
Or as Sam would put it: /m\
I’m all for giving Gov. Divecha another term in office. We need many more like him.
Where the fuck is he? I want Governor Shantanu Divecha to read this.
Hahahaa! Too bad it isnt a normal day!
this is gov.shantanu divecha!!!…i am the man who will bring change..change for the better of all!!
haha! I was searching for medical marijuana laws and ended up stumbling here. First I was gleeing and then it hit me. Taking this blog seriously will lead to ass cancer!
LOL Glad you found this blog!