<p>New Law Unlikely to Provide Patients Access to Medicine Absent Changes in Federal Policy<br /> <br /> Statement from Drug Policy Alliance's Amanda Reiman</p>
Today, Maryland enacted a law allowing approved academic research institutions in that state to establish investigational, research-oriented medical marijuana studies. Unlike 18 other states that have adopted medical marijuana laws that allow patients to obtain medical marijuana by growing it themselves or purchasing it from state-licensed businesses, Maryland’s law requires that patients obtain their medicine only from a limited number of research hospitals approved to conduct medical marijuana research.