theintelligencer : reported that West Virginia Governor Jim Justice Signs Broad Medical Marijuana Bill

That panel discussion came just after House Speaker Tim Armstead declared that the time wasn't right to legalize medical marijuana. Jim Justice signed a law Wednesday making West Virginia the 29th state to allow the use of marijuana for certain medical conditions. Delegate Mike Pushkin, a Kanawha County Democrat, spoke in favor of medical marijuana at a media event in February, just before the start of the 60-day legislative session. The law lets doctors prescribe cannabis to patients who are terminally ill or have seizures, cancer, chronic pain, post-traumatic stress disorder, AIDS and other specified conditions. The law doesn't authorize the sale of cannabis for opioid, and patients can't legally grow their own plants.

Medical Marijuana Laws Reduced The Number Of Medicaid Prescriptions

Health AffairsApril 19, 2017In the past twenty years, twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia have passed some form of medical marijuana law. Furthermore, the authors estimate that if all states had had a medical marijuana law in 2014, the total savings for fee-for-service Medicaid could have been $1.01 billion. According to the study, in five of the nine clinical areas there was a significant negative association between the presence of state medical marijuana laws and prescriptions filled for each category by Medicaid beneficiaries. The data cover all drugs reimbursed by each state's Medicaid program. These results are similar to those in a study the authors conducted about the effects of medical marijuana laws on the number of prescriptions within the Medicare population, published by Health Affairs in July 2016.


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