The Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday debated legislation to make medical marijuana legally available in the state of Alabama for the first time in a century. The legislation was filibustered for more than nine hours by a group of about 20 conservative Republicans who vehemently oppose the legislation, led by state Rep. Jim Carns, R-Vestavia.
Senate Bill 46 is sponsored by Sen. Tim Melson, R-Florence, and carried in the House by state Rep. Mike Ball, R-Madison, who carried this on the House floor.
“I spent a career in law enforcement,” Ball said. “In 2013, I got an email that changed my life forever.”
It was a letter from a grandmother asking Ball to support medical marijuana to help her granddaughter with severe seizures from epilepsy.
“One thing I knew is that people who do this should never be held criminally liable,” Ball said of parents who obtained medical marijuana or CBD for their afflicted child. Ball said that when he introduced his first bill “you would have thought that I was opening the gates of Sodom and Gomorrah.”
Ball said that failed, but it did morph into Carly’s Law, which established a UAB study that allowed qualified epileptic afflicted children to obtain CBD oil. [Read more at Alabama Political Reporter]
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