CITY SHORTS

Some Illinois patients who use cannabis as medicine should be legally
protected by Section 11 of the Cannabis Control Act. Under this section of
the code, the Illinois Department of Health & Human Services, with written
approval by the Illinois State Police, may authorize the use of cannabis
for the "treatment of glaucoma, the side effects of chemotherapy or
radiation therapy in cancer patients, or such other procedure certified to
be medically necessary." Currently, the Department of Health & Human
Services has no system in place to help the thousands of patients in
Illinois who use medical marijuana. You can find out more by starting with
the Illinois Cannabis Control Act at
(http://www.legis.state.il.us/ilcs/ch720/ch720act550.htm) and then looking
at (http://www.safeaccessnow.org) and (http://www.Illinoisnorml.org) for
efforts in Illinois.