- - Proposition 215 Medical Marijuana Initiative Section 1. Section 11362.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read: 11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. (b) (l) The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 are as follows: (A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical …showed first 75 words of 942 total…

…showed last 75 words of 942 total…with marijuana in the best ways to use it. To accomplish that, they must listen more carefully to their patients and educated themselves and one another about this medicine. Physicians have long recognized the need for continuing medical education (CME) to keep themselves up to date on new drugs and techniques. As Proposition 215 comes to California, physicians should do their part in fulfilling its promise by organizing CME courses on the medical use of marijuana.