sheskunk
Well-Known Member
Pay Attention, stooges.
http://www.hightimes.com/read/congress-effectively-ends-federal-ban-medical-marijuana
http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...-prohibition-spending-bill-provision-20141216
http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/12/15/did-congress-end-the-war-on-marijuana
Congress also squeezed in something that's been floating around since last May: an amendment to the Department of Justice's budget that strips funding used to interfere with state-legal marijuana away from the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Last May, Southern California's Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and Rep. Sam Farr of Carmel co-authored an amendment that would remove from the DOJ's budget money used to "interfere" with state-legal medical marijuana programs. The amendment sailed through Congress but then went nowhere. It had sponsors in the Senate — including Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey — but was never introduced because it did not have the votes.
So the Senate passed this the same way it passed a rollback on campaign finance reform and legislation probably authored by Citibank: slapped the controversial language into the CRomnibus. Advocates for marijuana reform hailed the passage as a major victory in Washington for weed.
http://www.hightimes.com/read/congress-effectively-ends-federal-ban-medical-marijuana
http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...-prohibition-spending-bill-provision-20141216
http://www.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2014/12/15/did-congress-end-the-war-on-marijuana
Congress also squeezed in something that's been floating around since last May: an amendment to the Department of Justice's budget that strips funding used to interfere with state-legal marijuana away from the DOJ and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Last May, Southern California's Rep. Dana Rohrabacher and Rep. Sam Farr of Carmel co-authored an amendment that would remove from the DOJ's budget money used to "interfere" with state-legal medical marijuana programs. The amendment sailed through Congress but then went nowhere. It had sponsors in the Senate — including Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey — but was never introduced because it did not have the votes.
So the Senate passed this the same way it passed a rollback on campaign finance reform and legislation probably authored by Citibank: slapped the controversial language into the CRomnibus. Advocates for marijuana reform hailed the passage as a major victory in Washington for weed.
