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STATE LEGISLATURE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT STANDARD DOSAGE OF POT

LYN MARSHALL, LA TIMES - Patients using marijuana for ailments ranging
from chronic back pain to cancer are allowed by Washington state law to
possess a two-month supply of the drug. But medical marijuana doesn't
come with a standard dose or even a standard method of taking the drug.
The 1998 law has never spelled out how much usable pot nor how many
plants make up a 60-day supply.

Now the Legislature has demanded an answer to the question by July, and
the state is holding hearings to ask experts and citizens for their
opinions on how to determine a two-month supply.

"There is so much you will have to take into account," says Joanna
McKee, founder of Seattle's Green Cross Patient Co-op. "What about
people who eat it? How different is the amount they need from people who
smoke it?"

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/
la-na-marijuana23sep23,1,4145209.story?track=rss&ctrack=2&cset=true


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