Indiana Lawmaker Files Medical Marijuana Bill for Children

Indiana lawmakers have filed SB72 which would legalize the use of CBD oil, a non-psychoactive substance from marijuana, for the treatment of seizures in children. This bill was introduced by Jean Leising, Senate Agriculture Committee Chair. Another medical marijuana bill is being proposed to the graveyard committee by State Representative Sue Ellington.

Of the two bills, lawmakers believe that SB72 will gain approval. This bill appropriates legislation for legal CBD oil use by children to treat intractable seizures.

Errington calls Leising’s bill, “a good step,” according to statements made to Courier-Journal.

Errington has submitted medical marijuana legislation to the Indiana General Assembly in the past, but has not been granted a hearing for it to move forward. She said, “I think it’s important to keep the issue in front of the legislature and the public because there is popular support for it.”

A National Geographic documentary, ‘Cannabis for Kids,’ has drawn a lot of attention to the use of CBD products to treat epilepsy and other serious seizure disorders in pediatric patients.

Cannabidiol (CBD) contains no psychoactive properties, a plethora of healing properties, and contains only trace amounts of THC. The proposed bill would make the prescribing doctors, patients and patients’ parents, immune from prosecution for possessing, distributing or using CBD oil products in Indiana.