HOUSE Votes to Stop Medical Marijuana and Hemp Prosecutions

[memphis]

Surprised Boehner allowed a vote. Party breakdown?

[memphis]

Rohrabacher was going crazy in his speech. He sounded like a maniac.

He didn't say anything that isn't true.

Well it doesn't change the fact he sounded crazed. This is atrocious legislation.

If you can come up with one argument based on logic and sound reason why people should be punished for producing HEMP, then I will eat my hat.

It encourages disrespect for the laws and authority.

To the contrary, silly prohibitionist laws encourage disrespect for law and authority.

[memphis]

The rules for medical weed are different in each state that has it. California is notoriously permissive. I bought some in Oakland with no doctor's note at all, just because they didn't care. Other states require a legit and serious diagnosis like AIDS or cancer. In any case, it's hilarious that somebody would use life satisfaction as a basis for prohibition. I wonder what the life satisfaction is for people in prison.

[memphis]

It's sad to see that the house is more interested in supporting pushers than cops. We now know for sure where Speaker Boner got his tan.

It's very difficult to plausibly argue at this point that marijuana criminalization has been in the long run good for cops by any conceivable definition.

It does offer a lot of demand for their services. Without the War on Drugs, we may not need as many police officers