It contracts the direct language of the state question, Jenkins said.

It affects anybody who is an employee in Oklahoma, Jenkins said.

He said the state question guarantees privacy for patients, but the bill allows any physician of the licensee to access patient records.

Pain management doctors and oncologists are in fear of losing their DEA license, he said.

“So those records would be used to eliminate patients that might possibly be using their legal, medical cannabis card that they applied for,” Jenkins said. “And then they would no longer be able to get pharmaceutical or other prescriptions during their cancer treatment, or what other debilitating disease they are dealing with at the time.”

Sen. Greg McCortney, R-Ada, co-chaired the working group which came up with the items in the bill.

He disagrees with Jenkins’ assertions that the bill changes the intent of State Question 788.

He said the language does not exclude every working Oklahoman.