Assisted suicide in the United Kingdom Medical Journal published an editorial arguing that medical organisations like the British Medical Association ought to drop their opposition to assisted dying and take a neutral stance so as to enable Parliament to debate the issue and not have what Raymond Tallis described as a "disproportionate influence on the decision". In 2014, Labour peer Lord Falconer introduced an Assisted Dying Bill into the House of Lords. The bill proposed that terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of less than six months be given the option of a medically assisted death, subject to legal safeguards. The bill reached committee stage
Cannabis in Michigan Cannabis in Michigan In 2008, the Michigan Compassionate Care Initiative, establishing a medical cannabis program for serious and terminally ill patients, was approved by the House but not acted upon, and defaulted to a public initiative on the November ballot. "Prop 1" was approved by 63% of voters, making Michigan the 13th state to legalize medical cannabis. In November 2017, supporters submitted 365,000 signatures to get legal recreational cannabis on the 2018 ballot. In January 2018, it was determined the initiative would appear on the ballot. Michigan voted to legalize Marijuana recreationally on November 6 as proposition 1. Since the