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                                   6092
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 11, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to dosing limitations
   and medical conditions permitting the medical use of marihuana
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 15 of section 3360 of the public health law, as
 added by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   15.  "Individual dose" means a single measure of raw medical marihuana
 or non-infused concentrates to be determined and clearly identified by a
 patient's practitioner for the patient's specific  certified  condition.
 [For ingestible or sub-lingual medical marihuana products, no individual
 dose may contain more than ten milligrams of tetrahydrocannabinol.]
   §  2. Subdivision 7 of section 3360 of the public health law, as added
 by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   7. [(a)] "Serious condition" means:
   (i) having one of the following severe debilitating or  life-threaten-
 ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
 or  acquired  immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
 ALZHEIMER'S  DISEASE,  TRAUMATIC  BRAIN  INJURY,  DYSTONIA,  Parkinson's
 disease,  multiple  sclerosis, MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY, damage to the nervous
 tissue of the spinal cord  with  objective  neurological  indication  of
 intractable  spasticity,  epilepsy,  WASTING  SYNDROME,  POST  TRAUMATIC
 STRESS  DISORDER,  RHEUMATOID  ARTHRITIS,  LUPUS,   inflammatory   bowel
 disease,  neuropathies, Huntington's disease, or as added by the commis-
 sioner; [and] OR
   (ii) any of the following conditions where it is clinically associated
 with, or a complication of, a condition  under  this  paragraph  or  its
 treatment:  cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain; severe
 nausea; seizures; severe or persistent muscle spasms; or such conditions
 as are added by the commissioner.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              
             
                          
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   [(b) No later than eighteen months from the  effective  date  of  this
 section,  the  commissioner shall determine whether to add the following
 serious conditions: Alzheimer's,  muscular  dystrophy,  dystonia,  post-
 traumatic stress disorder and rheumatoid arthritis.]
   §  3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
 ments to title 5-a of article 33 of the public health law made  by  this
 act  shall  not  affect  the  repeal  of  such title and shall be deemed
 repealed therewith.