By KRWG News
Las Vegas, NM – A cancer patient in Las Vegas, N.M., has been told that his use of medical marijuana has made him ineligible to receive a federal housing subsidy.
Seventy-year-old Robert Jones was told in an Oct. 12 letter from a local housing administrator that marijuana remains illegal at a federal level even though medical pot is legal in New Mexico.
Jones is appealing the decision to terminate him effective Nov. 30 from a voucher program that pays a portion of rent for low-income people.
Jones has a license to grow marijuana in his home.
A local housing official was told by a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development official that the federal agency doesn't differentiate between medical marijuana use and any other use of the drug.
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Information from: The Santa Fe New Mexican, http://www.sfnewmexican.com
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