Tim Melson was in Seoul when he was stricken, Alabama Republican Party Chair John Wahl said in a statement.
. Previous attempts to establish a program had never moved further than committee votes, but the Legislature’s approval of Carly’s Law, a 2014 statute authorizing a CBD study at the University of Alabama Birmingham, opened a door.
Melson brought the bill back in 2021, working with Rep. Mike Ball, R-Madison, who had fought for Carly’s Law. The final bill authorized medical cannabis use for 16 different conditions, including cancer, chronic pain and sickle-cell anemia. The law limits cannabis consumption to tablets, capsules, gelatins and vaporized oils. Smoking cannabis or consuming it in edibles is forbidden under the law.
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