A Spark For Liberty

With all the horseshit being being planned in D.C., it's nice to see that there is a small shred of common sense still to be found on rare occasion.
This time it is H.R. 2835, sponsored by the usually buffoonish Barney Frank, and co-sponsored by a bipartisan assortment of others.

H.R. 2835 makes two important changes to federal law:
First, it eliminates federal authority to interfere with patients, caregivers, and collectives operating in accordance with state medical marijuana laws.

Second, it moves marijuana from Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act into Schedule II. Schedule II drugs have recognized medical benefits and can be prescribed by doctors to patients in need (for example, morphine is a Schedule II drug).

We in California were the first to pass medical marijuana legislation years ago, in 1996. But our suppliers and users, even while strictly following the law, are routinely harassed by federal assholes and tried and convicted in federal courts. The Bush administration was particularly brutal in this regard.
Funny, if not sad, how Bush would fight a war to bring democracy and freedom to Arabs who don't understand them, and then wage war at home against sick people who do.

From my chair: the worst enemies of medical weed, and the sick who benefit, happen to be the Republicans. You know, those guys who are always bitching about state's rights and nanny government?

And if it takes a fruitcake socialist like Barney Frank, and the Obama administration, to take a stand for state's rights, and the rights of sick people to medicate, maybe the Neocons will learn a lesson in all this.

H.R. 2835 won't make medical weed the law of the land, but it does force the federal jackbooters to recognise those laws approving of it in the states that have done so.
It's not the final fix, but it is good move in the right direction.

Now, let's get it passed.