Proposition P

San Francisco Ballot Initiative
[Passed: 80% -- Yes]

The People of the City and County of
San Francisco recommend that the State of
California and the California Medical
Association restore hemp medical
preparations to the list of available medicines
in California. Licensed physicians shall not
be penalized for or restricted from
prescribing hemp preparations for medical
purposes.

The term 'hemp medical preparations'
means all products made from hemp,
cannabis, or marijuana, in all forms that are
designed, intended, or used for human
consumption, for the treatment of any
disease, the relief of pain, or for any healing
purpose, including the relief of asthma,
glaucoma, arthritis, anorexia, migraine,
multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, nausea, stress,
for use as an antibiotic, an anti-emetic, or as
any healing agent, or as an adjunct to any
medical procedure for the treatment of
cancer, HIV infection or herbal treatment.

Adopted - Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, August 28, 1992

Ayes: Supervisors Achtenberg, Alioto, Conroy, Gonzalez, Hallinan, Hsie, Kennedy, Migden, Shelley.

Absent: Britt, Maher.

Amendment of the Whole
8/24/92

WHEREAS, In November of 1991, the voters of San Francisco
14) passed Proposition P by an overwhelming 80 percent of the vote; and
15) WHEREAS, Proposition P made it City policy to recommend that
16) the State of California and the California Medical Association
17) restore hemp medical preparations to the list of available
18) medicines; and
19) WHEREAS, Proposition P defined "hemp medical preparations" as
20) all products made from hemp, cannabis, or marijuana that are
21) intended for the treatment of disease, the relief of pain, or for
22) any other healing purpose; and
23) WHEREAS, "Medicinal purposes," for the purpose of this
24) resolution, would include, but not be limited to the treatment of
25) AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other diseases
which require chemotherapy, as well as other serious illnesses; and

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1) WHEREAS, Federal agencies have refused to recognize
2) marijuana's important role in medical therapy, continue to maintain
3) legal prohibitions against marijuana's prescriptive medical use,
4) and recently cancelled the nation's federal marijuana-as-medicine
5) program; and
6) WHEREAS, These federal policies unnecessarily expose the
7) people of San Francisco to suffering and unrelieved pain, and
8) prevent physicians in San Francisco from exercising their
9) professional judgment; and
10) WHEREAS, The Board of Supervisors has received extensive and
11) unambiguous testimony in open hearings from highly respected San
12) Francisco physicians, from nursing organizations and from others in
13) the medical community who accept marijuana has a legitimate role to
14) play in the medical treatment of persons afflicted with the above-
15) mentioned ailments; and
16) WHEREAS, The Board of Supervisors has received extensive and
17) compelling testimony from many citizens afflicted with the above-
18) mentioned ailments and other serious illnesses who, as patients,
19) attest to marijuana's legitimate role in medical therapy; and
20) WHEREAS, while opposing the recreational use of marijuana, the
21) California Medical Association at its March, 1992 convention
22) endorsed the belief that the therapeutic use of marijuana under the
23) direction of a physician may be appropriate for certain conditions;
24) now, therefore, be it
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Supervisor Hallinan                                        PAGE TWO

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1) RESOLVED, That the Board of Supervisors urges the Mayor to
2) urge the Police Commission and the District Attorney of the City
3) and County of San Francisco to make lowest priority the arrest or
4) prosecution of those involved in the possession or cultivation of hemp for
5) medicinal purposes; and, be it
6) FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Board of Supervisors urges the
7) Mayor to urge the District Attorney to allow a letter from a
8) treating physician to be used as prima facia evidence that
9) marijuana can alleviate the pain and suffering of that patient's
10) medical condition; and, be it
11) FURTHER RESOLVED, That the representative of the City and
12) County of San Francisco in Sacramento lobby the California
13) legislature and the California Medical Association for a State
14) Medical Marijuana Bill for the 1991-1992 legislative session.
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Adopted - Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, August 28, 1992

Ayes: Supervisors Achtenberg, Alioto, Conroy, Gonzalez, Hallinan, Hsie, Kennedy, Migden, Shelley.

Absent: Britt, Maher.

I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution
was adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of the City and County of San Francisco

(signed)
John L. Taylor
Clerk

(signed)
Frank M. Jordan
Mayor

File No. Aug. 31, 1992
285-92-1Date Approved

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