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California - Colorado - Connecticut - Delaware Florida - Georgia - Hawaii - Idaho Illinois - Iowa - Kansas - Kentucky Louisiana - Maine - Massachusetts - Maryland Minnesota - Montana - Nevada - New Hampshire North Dakota - New Mexico - New York - North Carolina Ohio - Oklahoma - Pennsylvania - South Dakota South Carolina - Rhode Island - Tennessee - Texas Utah - Vermont - Virginia - Washington Wyoming - West Virginia - Wisconsin |
| A l a b a m a |
Bill approved: July 1979
Current status: Still in effect
HIghlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from glaucoma or cancer chemotherapy
| A l a s k a |
Bill approved: January 1983
Current status: Repealed 1986
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substance therapeutic research program for patients suffering from glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy, radiology, or other disease groups
| A r i z o n a |
Bill (Proposition 200) approved: November. 1996
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Require persons on drugs committing violent crimes to serve entire sentence; provide parole/probation and treatment as alternative to incarceration for persons convicted only of personal possession of controlled substance on first two offenses; allows doctors to prescribe otherwise illegal substances for certain patients; creates drug-related fund and commission.
| A r k a n s a s |
Bill approved: April 1981
Current status: Repealed 1987
Highlights: Allows licensed physicians to prescribe and administer THC capsules, pills, or injections for the treatment of cancer and other purposes
| C a l i f o r n i a |
Bill (Proposition 215) approved: November. 1996
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Allows patients to possess and cultivate marijuana for personal medicinal use providing a physician approves it.
| C o l o r a d o |
Bill approved: June 1979
Current status: April 1995
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic use program for patients suffering from glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy, or other disease groups.
| C o n n e c t i c u t |
Bill approved: July 1981
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Licenses physicians to possess prescribe and marijuana for patients suffering from glaucoma or cancer chemotherapy; makes no provisions for the marijuana supply
| D e l a w a r e |
No medicinal marijuana laws
District of Columbia:
Bill approved: August 1981
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Reschedules marijuana as Schedule V when used for medical use
| F l o r i d a |
Bill approved: June 1978
Current status: Repealed 1984
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from cancer chemotherapy
| G e o r g i a |
Bill approved: February 1980
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from glaucoma and cancer chemotherapy
| H a w a i i |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| I d a h o |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| I n d i a n a |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| I l l i n o i s |
Bill approved: September 1978
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program; allows doctors to use and prescribe marijuana for glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy, and other medically necessary procedures; authorizes physicians to purchase marijuana from the Department of Law Enforcement
| I o w a |
Bill approved: June 1979
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Reschedules marijuana as Schedule II when use for certain medicinal purposes
| K a n s a s |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| K e n t u c k y |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| L o u i s i a n a |
Bill approved: July 1991
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Allows licensed physicians to prescribe marijuana in the cases of glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy, and spastic quadriplegia; makes no provisions for marijuana supply
| M a i n e |
Bill approved: September 1983
Current status: Expired in 1987
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from glaucoma and cancer chemotherapy
| M a s s a c h u s e t t s |
Bill approved: December 1991
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from cancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy, glaucoma, and asthma; state proposal in January 1997 would let residents suffering from glaucoma, asthma or chemotherapy's side effects to legally possess marijuana for medicinal purposes.
| M a r y l a n d |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| M i s s i s s i p p i |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| M i c h i g a n |
Bill approved: December 1982
Current status: Expired in 1987
Highlights: Schedules marijuana as Schedule II when used as part of a controlled substances therapeutic research program for glaucoma and cancer chemotherapy
| M i n n e s o t a |
Bill approved: April 1980
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Appropriates funds for the establishment of a controlled substances therapeutic research program for cancer chemotherapy
| M o n t a n a |
Bill approved: April 1979
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Would reschedule THC and marijuana to Schedule II if the federal government authorizes the prescription and administration of these substances
| M i s s o u r i |
Bill approved: May 1994
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: People of Missouri request the federal government to lift the ban of marijuana for medical purposes
| N e v a d a |
Bill approved: June 1979
Current status: Repealed 1987
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances research program for patients suffering from glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy, and other disease groups
| N e w H a m p s h i r e |
Bill approved: June 1981
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: A licensed pharmacist may dispense cannabis type drugs to a person receiving radiation or cancer chemotherapy treatment for cancer; makes no provision for marijuana supply
| N o r t h D a k o t a |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| N e b r a s k a |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| N e w J e r s e y |
Bill approved: March 1981
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from life or sense-threatening diseases
| N e w M e x i c o |
Bill approved: February 1978
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from cancer chemotherapy or glaucoma
| N e w Y o r k |
Bill approved: June 1980
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes of a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from glaucoma, cancer, and other life or sense-threatening diseases; makes provisions for confiscated marijuana to be used if necessary
| N o r t h C a r o l i n a |
Bill approved: June 1979
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Allows physicians to prescribe marijuana for cancer chemotherapy
| O h i o |
Bill approved: June 1995
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a medical necessity defense for patients who possess a doctor's note from a physician stating that he/she "would prescribe marijuana to [the] patient if it were legal to do so."
| O k l a h o m a |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| O r e g o n |
Bill approved: June 1979
Current status: Repealed in 1987
Highlights: Allows physicians to prescribe marijuana for glaucoma and cancer chemotherapy
| P e n n s y l v a n i a |
Pennsylvania
No marijuana medicinal laws
| S o u t h D a k o t a |
No marijuana medicinal laws
| S o u t h C a r o l i n a |
South Carolina
Bill approved: February 1980
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy and radiology, or other disease groups
| R h o d e I s l a n d |
Bill approved: May 1980
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program
| T e n n e s s e e |
Tennessee
Bill approved: April 1981
Current status: Repealed in 1992
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy or radiology
| T e x a s |
Bill approved: June 1979
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from cancer or glaucoma
| U t a h |
No medicinal marijuana laws
| V e r m o n t |
Bill approved: April 1981
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Allows a physician to prescribe marijuana for cancer and other medicinal uses; makes no provisions for marijuana supply
| V i r g i n i a |
Bill approved: March 1979
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Allows physicians to prescribe marijuana for glaucoma and cancer; allows pharmacists to dispense marijuana for medical purposes; makes no provisions for marijuana supply
| W a s h i n g t o n |
Bill approved: April 1996
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Appropriates $130,000 for the establishment of a controlled substances therapeutic research program and to research tamper-free means of cultivating marijuana for medicinal purposes
| W y o m i n g |
No medicinal marijuana laws
| W e s t V i r g i n i a |
Bill approved: June 1979
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for patients suffering from cancer chemotherapy and glaucoma; allows physicians to prescribe marijuana; allows licensed pharmacies to dispense marijuana; makes no provisions for marijuana supply
| W i s c o n s i n |
Bill approved: April 1982
Current status: Still in effect
Highlights: Establishes a controlled substances therapeutic research program for glaucoma, cancer chemotherapy, and other disease groups; allows physicians to prescribe marijuana; allows certain pharmacies to dispense marijuana; makes no provisions for marijuana supply