Under the bill, the Department of Health shall establish Medical Cannabis Compassionate Centers in public tertiary hospitals and set up a Prescription Monitoring System and an electronic database of registered medical cannabis patients and their physicians.
Dried marijuana leaves (Contributed photo) MANILA - Senate Bill 230 that seeks to legalize the medical use of marijuana will not promote the use of raw cannabis but it will be in capsule and oil form for use in debilitating medical conditions of qualified patients. Bill author Senator Robinhood Padilla is pushing for the legalization of medical marijuana as a "compassionate alternative means of medical treatment." The bill, Padilla said, will also seek to expand research into the medicinal properties of marijuana, which is widely used in other countries as herbal medicine to treat certain conditions, including gout, rheumatism, and malaria. "The State should, by way of exception, allow the use of cannabis for compassionate purposes to promote the health and well-being of citizens proven to be in dire need of such while at the same time providing the strictest regulations to ensure that abuses for casual use or profiteering be avoided," he said in his bill. Under the
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