State Sen. Daylin Leach, who authored the medical marijuana bill, told the court in a letter, that the General Assembly intended for the law to apply to patients serving probation.
However, as Penn Live reported on September 13, The judges said they could not accept as law the assurances of one senator. “Candidly, a clear and unambiguous showing from the Legislature would have been to explicitly address probationers ,” they wrote.
The act prohibits the use of medical marijuana in state prisons and county facilities under contract to house state inmates serving a portion of their sentences on parole or in a community correction program, they pointed out.