University of Arizona researcher, Dr. Sue Sisley, has formed a political action committee to change the medical marijuana law. Sisley is concerned that the existing law prohibits the medical marijuana from college campuses, including research.
Sisley says that the UofA administration is interpreting Laws 2012, Chapter 159 as prohibiting scientific research.
However, legislators say that ABOR and the universities assured them that the legislation would not affect medical research studies according to the Yellow Sheet.
Representative Kimberly Yee plans to meet with officials to see if the university is interpreting the law correctly, and if not, will work to amend the law allow medical research.
Legislators claimed that the law may be problematic due to the language of the legislation that was imported from other states’ laws. Yee told the Yellow Sheet that “importing laws from other states always leads to years of clean-up legislation – which itself spawns clean-up legislation.”