BISMARCK - Backers of a successful North Dakota citizen initiative to allow marijuana to be used as medicine say they still aren't happy with new rules governing its use, despite a major rewrite by lawmakers.
Fargo financial planner Rilie Ray Morgan headed the initiative campaign and says another citizen initiative is possible if the current bill stands.
A big sticking point is the ease in which marijuana could be smoked as medicine. The bill passed by the Senate allows patients to smoke it only if a physician finds no other form of marijuana would help.
A House committee has taken out that provision but a doctor still must recommend smoking marijuana as medicine for people who suffer from one of several debilitating illnesses.
Morgan says a doctor would never recommend smoking anything.