Together we have made history in the battle for common sense #marijuana law reforms and for the first time passed an amendment on the House floor that is the start of the end of national prohibition. My amendment with Dana Rohrabacher and others to stop the Department of Justice from using funds to prevent states from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana passed by a bipartisan 219-189 vote. The last time that we brought a similar amendment to the floor in 2012 we lost 163-262, which demonstrates the tremendous change of popular opinion on this issue in the last two years alone. This appropriations bill has several stops before it becomes laws, and will likely never become law on its own, but what happened in the wee hours of the morning this morning is nevertheless EXTREMELY important. A majority of the House of Representatives voted to essentially disengage the federal government from moving against states that allow the sale of medical marijuana. Thats a huge deal and now that a majority for reform exists, the issue will finally start to move at the national level to catch up with where states like #colorado already are.
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 06:04:59 +0000
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