State legislators, including North Coast Assemblyman Jim Wood, are reintroducing a bill that would require hospitals and healthcare facilities to allow terminally ill patients access to certain forms of medical cannabis. Known as Ryan’s Law, the Senate Bill 311 is named for late San Diego resident Ryan Bartell, who died in April of 2018, just […]
Senate Bill 305
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Ryan’s Law
There’s a bill sitting on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk that could radically change end-of-life care options for some patients in California hospitals. Senate Bill 305, which passed both chambers of the Legislature with unanimous votes last month, would prohibit health care facilities from interfering with a terminally ill patient’s use of medical cannabis, giving dying […]