TWG Report sa panukalang gawing legal ang medical cannabis sa bansa, lusot na sa committee level ng kamara
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00:00 The congressmen who are opposed to medical use only and not recreational use of cannabis are pushing for a law in the country.
00:08 They explained that there are many patients who need to be treated to ease their feelings.
00:14 Malala Esmora in the report. Rise and shine Mela.
00:17 The House Committee on Dangerous Drugs and Committee on Health has approved the Technical Working Group Report on the proposed law
00:27 that legalizes medical cannabis in the Philippines.
00:31 Once it is approved by the mother committees, it is expected to be included in the plenary to be passed in a low-cost.
00:39 According to Dangerous Drugs Committee Chair Robert Ace Barbers,
00:42 they are pushing for medical use only and not recreational use of cannabis.
00:47 For now, there are many patients in the country who need it.
00:52 Although there are those who can get a special permit, it is still difficult.
00:57 Let me just be clear that the objective of the proposed legislation is not to allow or delist cannabis in the enumeration under the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Law.
01:17 The bill only proposes to allow cannabis for medical intervention.
01:28 While we allow special permits to procure from abroad, it's really illegal and that's why we're correcting that flow
01:41 because despite the fact that they are allowing special permits, during the last hearing I asked them,
01:48 there's only one application or one what has approved for years because it's so tedious and hard and expensive.
01:55 Medical cannabis was previously pushed to Congress but it is not legalized.
02:00 In a press conference, Barbers said that he is confident that the legalization of the proposed law is already big
02:07 because the provisions are already more robust and more strict.
02:11 There's a strict regulation as far as the practitioners who can issue prescriptions.
02:19 There's a penalty in the proposed law, a fine of one million for the physician.
02:27 Meanwhile, during the last hearing of the House Committee on Legislative Franchises,
02:32 the discussion on the possible recovery of the franchise of Sunshine Media Network International or SMNI
02:39 due to the alleged violations was continued.
02:41 The committee approved the motion to subpoena the Kingdom of Jesus Christ leader, Pastor Apolo Q. Buloy.
02:47 I'd like to move that we issue this committee rather issue a subpoena to Pastor Q. Buloy
02:55 to compel him to be present during the next hearing.
02:59 And may we remind Attorney Mark Tolentino that after the subpoena, if Pastor Q. Buloy does not appear,
03:07 then we'll be constrained to request for a warrant of arrest for him to appear here.
03:14 Or rather to move for a contempt order after he will not appear, then that's the warrant. That's what I meant.
03:25 Before this, the House Committee on Labor and Employment held its first hearing.
03:30 The House Committee on Labor and Employment also held hearings on the provisions that would strengthen the rights and benefits of the workers in the country.
03:37 These hearings were followed by a plenary session of the House of Representatives where several important bills were discussed in the third and final reading.
03:47 Mela Lesmoras for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.