House Health Committee to Consider Medical Marijuana Bill Thursday
RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA — In a historic first, the House Committee on Health will take testimony on House Bill 1380, a measure to protect seriously ill North Carolinians from the risk of arrest and jail for using marijuana for medical purposes if their physician recommends it. The session, scheduled for Thursday, June 18 at noon, will be North Carolina's first-ever legislative hearing on a measure that would provide effective protection to medical marijuana patients.
WHAT: House Committee on Health hearing on HB 1380, the medical marijuana bill.
WHO: Rep. Earl Jones (D-Greensboro) and witnesses including: Perry Parks of Richmond County, a Vietnam veteran, pilot and former corporate safety director who suffers from degenerative disk disease; Billy Cates of Davidson County, who experiences severe pain resulting from a broken neck; Jean Marlowe of Polk County, who suffers from porphyria, an illness that causes pain and nerve damage; Ann Hodges, a registered nurse from Wilson County who suffers from back pain and has an implanted spinal stimulator; and Janet Osburn, a registered nurse from Johnston County with severe fibromyalgia.
WHERE: Legislative Office Building, room 544.
WHEN: Thursday, June 18 at noon.
