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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Medical marijuana patients in Maine are urging Maine lawmakers to allow them to use smokeless forms of the drug in hospitals.
Patients, their caregivers and dispensary representatives told the Health and Human Services Committee Monday that many patients are denied the drug or have to use it discretely because most hospitals don't allow it.
The Portland Press Herald reports that (http://bit.ly/1JvpbTu ) the bill is getting pushback from hospital officials and doctors. They say that they could lose federal funding if they allow medical marijuana in their facilities.
Samantha Brown of South Berwick told lawmakers that her 3-year-old daughter uses marijuana to treat seizures but has been denied access to it during hospital visits. Brown says that let her in the "uncomfortable position" of having to sneak it to her daughter.
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