Hinchey Rohrabacher amendment goes down again, much at the hands of Republican control who seem to wrap themselves in the states' rights mantra when it suits them. The amendment would simply bar federal agents from criminalizing medicinal marijuana in states where it had already been legalized in state referendums.

 

And Rep. Mark Souder (news, bio, voting record), an Indiana Republican who worked to defeat the marijuana initiative, accused supporters of "hiding behind a few sick people to try to in effect legalize ... marijuana in this country."

 

"The rhetoric about marijuana as a treatment for medical purposes was probably dreamed up at some college dorm," he said.

 

What an insensitive, ignorant dick. Let's throw sick people in jail! I guess that the DEA's own judge Francis L. Young stated: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the transfer of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance."

 

Source: US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition," [Docket #86-22] (September 6, 1988), p. 57.

DEA's own judge Francis L. Young stated: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the transfer of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance."

 

Yeah.. but I bet he said that in a college dorm!

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Hinchey Rohrabacher amendment goes down again, much at the hands of Republican control who seem to wrap themselves in the states' rights mantra when it suits them.  The amendment would simply bar federal agents from criminalizing medicinal marijuana in states where it had already been legalized in state referendums.

 

And Rep. Mark Souder (news, bio, voting record), an Indiana Republican who worked to defeat the marijuana initiative, accused supporters of "hiding behind a few sick people to try to in effect legalize ... marijuana in this country."

 

"The rhetoric about marijuana as a treatment for medical purposes was probably dreamed up at some college dorm," he said.

 

What an insensitive, ignorant dick. Let's throw sick people in jail!  I guess that the DEA's own judge Francis L. Young stated: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the transfer of marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance."

 

Source: US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Agency, "In the Matter of Marijuana Rescheduling Petition," [Docket #86-22] (September 6, 1988), p. 57.

 

 

The Supreme Court already shot down laws ok-ing medical marijuana passed by several states so its still a crime to possess or use or distribute this stuff regardless.

The Supreme Court already shot down laws ok-ing medical marijuana passed by several states so its still a crime to possess or use or distribute this stuff regardless.

 

States attorneys in states where it is legal have said they have no interest in wasting the court's time to prosecute medical marijuana offenses. The Hinchey Rohrabacher amendment would just have the federal government do the same thing.