[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4498 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4498

To provide for the legitimate use of medicinal marijuana in accordance 
                  with the laws of the various States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 28, 2014

   Mr. Griffith of Virginia introduced the following bill; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the legitimate use of medicinal marijuana in accordance 
                  with the laws of the various States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Legitimate Use of Medicinal 
Marijuana Act'' or the ``LUMMA''.

SEC. 2. SCHEDULING OF MARIJUANA; PRESCRIPTIONS.

    (a) Schedule.--Marijuana is moved from schedule I of the Controlled 
Substances Act to schedule II of such Act.
    (b) Prescription.--
            (1) In general.--In a State in which marijuana may be 
        prescribed by a physician for medical use under applicable 
        State law, no provision of the Controlled Substances Act (21 
        U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
        Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) shall prohibit or otherwise 
        restrict--
                    (A) the prescription of marijuana by a physician 
                for medical use;
                    (B) an individual who is an authorized patient from 
                obtaining, possessing, transporting within the 
                individual's State, or using marijuana for that 
                individual's medical use;
                    (C) an individual authorized under State law to 
                obtain, possess, transport within their State, or 
                manufacture marijuana, from obtaining, possessing, 
                transporting within that State, or manufacturing 
                marijuana pursuant to that authorization; or
                    (D) a pharmacy or other entity authorized under 
                State law to distribute medical marijuana to an 
                authorized patient, from obtaining or possessing 
                marijuana for that purpose, or from distributing 
                marijuana to an authorized patient for medical use.
            (2) Production.--No provision of the Controlled Substances 
        Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or of the Federal Food, Drug, and 
        Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) shall prohibit or 
        otherwise restrict an entity authorized by a State, in which 
        marijuana may be prescribed by a physician for medical use, for 
        the purpose of producing marijuana for prescription by a 
        physician for medical use, from producing, processing, or 
        distributing marijuana for such purpose.

SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act--
            (1) the term ``authorized patient'' means an individual 
        using marijuana in accordance with a prescription of marijuana 
        by a physician for medical use;
            (2) the term ``physician'' means a practitioner of 
        medicine, who--
                    (A) graduated from a college of medicine or 
                osteopathy; and
                    (B) is licensed by the appropriate State board;
            (3) the term ``prescription'' means an instruction written 
        by a medical physician in accordance with applicable State law 
        that authorizes a patient to be issued with a medicine or 
        treatment; and
            (4) the term ``State'' includes the District of Columbia, 
        Puerto Rico, and any other territory or possession of the 
        United States.

SEC. 4. RELATION OF ACT TO CERTAIN PROHIBITIONS RELATING TO SMOKING.

    This Act does not affect any Federal, State, or local law 
regulating or prohibiting smoking in public.
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