Change to law would ease access to marijuana-based seizure medication Submitted: 04/24/2015 MADISON - Wisconsin made a marijuana-based drug to treat seizures legal, but patients still can't get it.Now a state senator wants to fix the problem.



The Legislature last year passed a bill allowing the use of cannabis oil, but neither patients nor doctors have been able to legally access the drug because of hurdles in state and federal law.A state senator from Racine wants support from fellow senators for his plan to make the treatment more available. He wants to eliminate a provision in the law that requires patients to have a doctor's prescription in order to use the oil.Under his proposal, people could not be prosecuted simply for possessing the oil.Seven-year-old Lydia Schaeffer of Burlington died a month after the bill was signed, never able to access the oil to help treat her severe seizures.The bill was renamed Lydia's Law in her honor.





Story By: Associated Press - Wisconsin made a marijuana-based drug to treat seizures legal, but patients still can't get it.Now a state senator wants to fix the problem.The Legislature last year passed a bill allowing the use of cannabis oil, but neither patients nor doctors have been able to legally access the drug because of hurdles in state and federal law.A state senator from Racine wants support from fellow senators for his plan to make the treatment more available. He wants to eliminate a provision in the law that requires patients to have a doctor's prescription in order to use the oil.Under his proposal, people could not be prosecuted simply for possessing the oil.Seven-year-old Lydia Schaeffer of Burlington died a month after the bill was signed, never able to access the oil to help treat her severe seizures.The bill was renamed Lydia's Law in her honor.

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