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BREAKING: Another Senate Pro-Medical Marijuana Vote

by borden, June 11, 2015, 02:21pm

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BREAKING: The Senate Appropriations Committee just voted to extend the ban on DOJ spending funds to interfere with state medical marijuana laws. My US Senator, Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), sponsored the amendment.

Check back on our web site for information later today, and see last week's feature story on the House approving this and several other amendments that rein in DEA power.

As noted in that article, the language and arguably the fact of it being an appropriation matter (as opposed to just legalizing medical marijuana) leaves the field open for prosecutors to make arguments about how the amendment should be interpreted, and to do raids and continue prosecutions in the meanwhile. So it's not the solution to all of the problems that medical marijuana patients and their providers face, much less for marijuana policy in general. But it's a good step, and politically means the world for our efforts and their future prospects.

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this is quite good step taken

by Tom Copper (not verified), June 26, 2015, 01:12am

this is quite good step taken by senate if we look at this politically.... but its not a good one for medical marijuana patients

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They ignore the facts and Target the truth sayers

by Smokingspirit123 (not verified), April 02, 2018, 02:45am

Least we forget we have waged a multi billion dollar war, we have allowed the 1% to pollute our air and water, posion the children with their diesel buses and subverted a multi billion hemp industry, we have gone to great extreems to insure only the petrol chemical industry can profit, when we know everything made out of plastic can be made out of hemp, yet we have destroyed millions of people life's and livley hood all under the pretext of keeping little Jonny from smoking the plant, this war , this drug war is based on lies and propaganda and race,where the masses are forced to pay endlessly for the medical Monopoly incompetence or be criminal, it's time the state grow up and quit playing victim all the time, quit targeting Americas best our modern day Beatles, Rolling Stones, our modern day Thomas Edison, George Washington and Henry Ford all had something to do with hemp. Check out Henry Ford hemp car on YouTube, and Twitter @smokingspirit when they are making a million dollars a minute ripping off the American people a million dollars buy a lot of people to Target and slander in ifidel

stop the discrimation of US citizens

by not homofobic (not verified), June 29, 2015, 04:14am

why can't federal courts do for weed smokers what they did for gays because allowing people in certain states to smoke weed and others not is discrimination .hope someone with the power or money will do something to change this. i quit my job 3 years ago when CO got recreational pot tired moving out there but its not my kind of place way to many people for me , i will never have another job until i can smoke weed without being worried about going to jail or having my kids taken and im not saying i want to go to work high even though im more productive when i am but until i get equal rights all u tax payers will be paying my way and i dont struggle not working i get all i need from the government hell i think im doing better not working than i was when i had a job,and ive decided to quit smoking weed and im gona start protesting that way if the cops try to mess with me i have no pot in my system weed is the only thing that makes me a criminal i dont lie cheat steel or hurt anyone to get pot SO AMERICA WAKE UP AND DO SOMETHING

good

by Aaron Miguel (not verified), July 16, 2015, 02:01pm

this is very good for senate

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by smokingspirit, October 09, 2015, 07:39pm

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Gay Nazis in our Congress. I

by Snorkums (not verified), April 16, 2016, 01:07am

Gay Nazis in our Congress. I like that. Sorry. I couldn't help but laugh. I applaud you for your grasp of the situation.

Our leadership is a mess.

Imagine if the French and Indian war were still being fought today. The French armies are invading and instead of resisting them, we welcome them. Because we are so happy to have any kind of coherent leadership. Because all that we know is our modern Congress and we know how flipping stupid they are. Because they don't represent us anymore and because we would like to have ethically responsible leaders. So we don't fight, instead we embrace the French and Indians. Not because we like them, but because anything is better than what we have now.

Actually, most people--and

by William Clark (not verified), January 09, 2016, 12:29am

Actually, most people--and particularly patients who medicate with marijuana--use it to replace prescription drugs or alcohol.

Its MUCH better to vote down

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Its MUCH better to vote down a terrible attempt to legalize cannabis than to vote it in.

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