Many Medical Cannabis Bills headed to the OK House Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances Committee on April 10
Here's information on them and what to do for outreach to your legislators-
The agenda for the meeting for the Oklahoma House Alcohol, Tobacco and Controlled Substances Committee for April 10, 2024 is below. They will be hearing several bills that affect Oklahoma’s medical marijuana industry that have already passed the Senate.
The third image below includes phone numbers for the committee members so you may reach out to them by phone if you wish to ask them to vote for/against these bills or tell them your views on these policies.
But wait, there’s more…
Also, HB3361 is out of the Senate Business and Commerce committee and is up for a full Senate vote any day now. Here is a link to call any/all OK State Senators and ask them to vote AGAINST mandating pre-packaged flower.
In previous sessions we took lots of comments from the community on this bill, but it keeps coming up:
And the images speak for themselves…
Prepackaged vs deli style flower I bought a year ago-
Deli-style flower I bought last week-
Oklahoma has held off mandating prepackaging of flower for years, as it is not addressing a real problem. Many regular pharmacies dispense FDA approved medications, including controlled substances, by counting out doses and amounts “deli-style” and the barrier of ‘pre-packing’ in plastic or mylar will not deter something from the illicit market, and may even encourage diversion due to certain image recognition over building relationships with their shops and growers. If you are calling the committee members, perhaps don’t make threats about voting them out however, at least not to Mickey Dollens and TJ Marti (the committee chair) as they have already won their re-elections by default by not drawing challengers. Dean Davis has opponents so if you live in his district you can definitely do that ;)
As stories have been breaking about inflated THC levels around the country, and OMMA works on budgeting for a quality assurance lab for increased standardization, we tell each other to shop with our senses (sight, smell) — if we cannot see what we are buying and leaving the store with, this is no longer a patient-friendly industry. Legislators continue to sing a refrain of wanting a “true medical program” yet are still acting in opposition to patients.