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SECTION 1. Section 11362.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996.

(b)(1) The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 are as follows:

(A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.

(B) To ensure that patients and their primary caregivers who obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation of a physician are not subject to criminal prosecution or sanction.

(C) To encourage the federal and state governments to implement a plan to provide for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical need of marijuana.

(2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to supersede legislation prohibiting persons from engaging in conduct that endangers others, nor to condone the diversion of marijuana for nonmedical purposes.

(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no physician in this state shall be punished, or denied any right or privilege, for having recommended marijuana to a patient for medical purposes.

(d) Section 11357, relating to the possession of marijuana, and Section 11358, relating to the cultivation of marijuana, shall not apply to a patient, or to a patient's primary caregiver, who possesses or cultivates marijuana for the personal medical purposes of the patient upon the written or oral recommendation or approval of a physician.

(e) For the purposes of this section, ''primary caregiver" means the individual designated by the person exempted under this section who has consistently assumed responsibility for the housing, health, or safety of that person.

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SEC. 2. If any provision of this measure or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the measure that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this measure are severable.

2. According to the Department of Healths website at http://www.doh.state.fl.us/disease_ctrl/aids/updates/facts/usfl.html Florida is third behind New York, and California with more than 75,000 AIDS cases that have been reported and this is before the year 2000!

3. This would benefit our state by dropping a crime rate. It would lead to fewer arrests, fewer people growing it illegaly and selling it illegaly. Our jails in Florida are over-populated. Marijuana arrests totaled 786,545. If this Medical Marijuana law would be a current law, the arrests would shrink by roughly half.

4. Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers between $10 billion and $12 billion annually and has led to the arrest of nearly 18 million Americans over a longterm period. Too much tax dollars are going towards the "PROHIBITION" of Marijuana.

5. Nevertheless, some 94 million Americans acknowledge having used marijuana during their lives.

6. More than 60 per cent of all people prescribed pharmaceutical drugs end up with a drug-related problem! People that use Medical Marijuana dont usually deal with these side effects of pharmaceuticals.

7. Pharmaceutical drug-related problems resulted in almost nine million hospital admissions every year at an estimated cost of $47.4 billion. Thats where our Tax Dollars and Medicare Dollars are going. To these High Priced Pharmaceuticals!

8. As a matter of fact, it is estimated that more than 28 percent of all hospital admissions in 1992 were due to drug-related illness and that somewhere between 80,000 and 200,000 people died from complications involving prescription medicines.

9. Pharmaceutical drug-related illness and death should be considered one of the leading diseases in the United States.

10. Medical Marijuana hasnt killed humans! It hasnt hurt anybody! Matter of fact its helped out Medical users. No one was diagnosed with a death leading from an overdose of Medical Marijuana!

11. Even such over the counter drugs such as Tylenol were diagnosed. An FDA review found more than 56,000 emergency room visits a year due to acetaminophen overdoses.

12. Alcohol itself killed 150,000 people.

13. Every week, 52 weeks a year, some 8000 people in this country die from tobacco-related diseases, their lives ended prematurely by an aggressive tobacco industry and the addictive properties of nicotine.

14. From illicit drugs such as cocaine, and heroin there were around 5,000 deaths.

FMM "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided agaist itself shall not stand" The Bible, New Testament, Gospel according to Matthew, chapter 12, verse 25

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