It's Official: State Proposes Gutting Medical Cannabis Law

Earlier this month we revealed state plans to end medical cannabis as we know it: to reduce patient possession limits, remove patient growing rights, and eliminate certain defenses for medical cannabis patients charged with pot crimes.

This afternoon the state's medical cannabis workgroup—comprised of the liquor board, health department, revenue department, and the governor's office—released their formal recommendations, and they are just as drastic as we initially revealed.

The basic idea is that the voter-approved medical cannabis law would be mostly scrapped, and patients who are accepted into a proposed government registry would be allowed tax deductions exemptions on pot, which could only be purchased at I-502 stores. Among the recommendations: