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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. 

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 

A BILL 

To provide for the legitimate use of medicinal marijuana 

in accordance with the laws of the various States. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Legitimate Use of Me5 dicinal Marijuana Act’’ or the ‘‘LUMMA’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SCHEDULING OF MARIJUANA; PRESCRIPTIONS. 

7 (a) SCHEDULE.—Marijuana is moved from schedule 

8 I of the Controlled Substances Act to schedule II of such 

9 Act. 

10 (b) PRESCRIPTION.— 


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1 (1) IN GENERAL.—In a State in which mari2 juana may be prescribed by a physician for medical 

3 use under applicable State law, no provision of the 

4 Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) 

5 or of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 

6 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) shall prohibit or otherwise re7 strict— 

8 (A) the prescription of marijuana by a 

9 physician for medical use; 

10 (B) an individual who is an authorized pa11 tient from obtaining, possessing, transporting 

12 within the individual’s State, or using mari13 juana for that individual’s medical use; 

14 (C) an individual authorized under State 

15 law to obtain, possess, transport within their 

16 State, or manufacture marijuana, from obtain17 ing, possessing, transporting within that State, 

18 or manufacturing marijuana pursuant to that 

19 authorization; or 

20 (D) a pharmacy or other entity authorized 

21 under State law to distribute medical marijuana 

22 to an authorized patient, from obtaining or pos23 sessing marijuana for that purpose, or from dis24 tributing marijuana to an authorized patient for 

25 medical use. 


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1 (2) PRODUCTION.—No provision of the Con2 trolled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) or of 

3 the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 

4 U.S.C. 301 et seq.) shall prohibit or otherwise re5 strict an entity authorized by a State, in which mari6 juana may be prescribed by a physician for medical 

7 use, for the purpose of producing marijuana for pre8 scription by a physician for medical use, from pro9 ducing, processing, or distributing marijuana for 

10 such purpose. 

11 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

12 In this Act— 

13 (1) the term ‘‘authorized patient’’ means an in14 dividual using marijuana in accordance with a pre15 scription of marijuana by a physician for medical 

16 use; 

17 (2) the term ‘‘physician’’ means a practitioner 

18 of medicine, who— 

19 (A) graduated from a college of medicine 

20 or osteopathy; and 

21 (B) is licensed by the appropriate State 

22 board; 

23 (3) the term ‘‘prescription’’ means an instruc24 tion written by a medical physician in accordance 


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1 with applicable State law that authorizes a patient 

2 to be issued with a medicine or treatment; and 

3 (4) the term ‘‘State’’ includes the District of 

4 Columbia, Puerto Rico, and any other territory or 

5 possession of the United States. 

6 SEC. 4. RELATION OF ACT TO CERTAIN PROHIBITIONS RE7 LATING TO SMOKING. 

8 This Act does not affect any Federal, State, or local 

9 law regulating or prohibiting smoking in public. 

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