Legal challenges could be coming after Oklahoma's health board proposed sweeping new regulations on medical marijuana.
This just coming weeks after Oklahomans voted in the use of medical marijuana with State Question 788.
The state board of health approved an emergency ban on smokable marijuana and will require pharmacists to be on hand at dispensaries.
“I would expect some type of litigation to be filed about these rules, regardless," said Tom Bates. Interim Health Commissioner.
2 Works For You has learned the American Civil Liberties Union, a group of civil rights attorneys, are threatening to sue the state because of the new regulations.
"I think that what the health department did today is potentially so far outside of what they're allowed to do under State Question 788 that it could be overturned by a court," said Ryan Kiesel, ACLU Oklahoma.
The health board said they wanted to protect the public that doesn't smoke.
Under the new rules while dispensaries can't sell smokable pot if someone has a license to have medical marijuana they can grow it themselves and smoke that.
The forms of medical marijuana the board did approve Tuesday are a pill, oil, topical and liquid, but not flower, dry leaf or plant form uses.
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