2014
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       
       SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 14-006
       
       
       BY SENATOR(S) Lambert, Steadman, Aguilar, Cadman, Carroll,
       Crowder, Grantham, Heath, Herpin, Lundberg, Scheffel, Balmer,
       Brophy, Guzman, Harvey, Hill, Hodge, Jahn, Johnston, Jones, Kefalas,
       Kerr, King, Marble, Newell, Nicholson, Renfroe, Rivera, Roberts,
       Schwartz, Tochtrop, Todd, Ulibarri, Zenzinger;
       also REPRESENTATIVE(S) Joshi, Singer, Becker, Buck, Buckner,
       Conti, Everett, Exum, Fields, Fischer, Gerou, Ginal, Hamner, Holbert,
       Hullinghorst, Humphrey, Kagan, Kraft-Tharp, Labuda, Landgraf,
       Lawrence, Lee, May, McCann, McLachlan, Mitsch Bush, Navarro,
       Pabon, Pettersen, Primavera, Rosenthal, Ryden, Saine, Salazar, Schafer,
       Stephens, Swalm, Szabo, Vigil, Williams, Wilson, Wright, Young,
       Ferrandino.
       
       
          MEMORIALIZING CONGRESS TO GRANT COLORADO
       RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS THE AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT
       MEDICAL CLINICAL TRIALS REGARDING MARIJUANA'S
       MEDICAL EFFICACY. 
       
       
          WHEREAS, Colorado is in a unique situation regarding marijuana use
       in this country; and
       
          WHEREAS, Colorado's constitution authorizes the legal use of
       marijuana for both medical and private adult use, but the use of marijuana
       is still illegal under federal law; and
       
          WHEREAS, Because marijuana use has been illegal under federal law
       since 1937, there is limited modern, scientific-based research regarding
       the medical use of marijuana; and
       
          WHEREAS, Without medical research, most information regarding
       marijuana's medical efficacy is limited in clinical or scientific evidence
       and is anecdotal or observational; and
       
          WHEREAS, Several marijuana extracts seem to demonstrate
       significant benefits for pain control, treatment of childhood epileptic
       seizures, and other beneficial effects, often with fewer side effects than
       prescription drugs, and without use dependence; and
       
          WHEREAS, Colorado has an unprecedented opportunity to provide
       the United States with scientific-based, peer-reviewed clinical medical
       research that could lead to a medical consensus regarding marijuana's
       medical efficacy to treat a number of chronic and debilitating medical
       conditions; and
       
          WHEREAS, Colorado is proposing to spend up to $10 million
       studying marijuana's medical efficacy in Senate Bill 14-155; and
       
          WHEREAS, Federal law currently significantly restricts state research
       institutions that receive federal funding from conducting controlled
       clinical trials regarding marijuana's medical efficacy; now, therefore,
       
          Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Sixty-ninth General Assembly of
       the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:
       
          That the United States Congress is hereby memorialized to provide
       statutory relief to grant Colorado research institutions the authority to
       conduct controlled clinical and objective medical research trials regarding
       marijuana's medical efficacy.
       
                    Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Memorial be sent to
       each member of the Colorado Congressional delegation, the speaker of
       the United States House of Representatives, and the president of the
       United States Senate.
       
       
       
       
       
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       Morgan Carroll                       Mark Ferrandino
       PRESIDENT OF                    SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
       THE SENATE                        OF REPRESENTATIVES
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Cindi Markwell                        Marilyn Eddins
       SECRETARY OF                CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE
       THE SENATE                        OF REPRESENTATIVES