Congress' Federal Spending Bill: Blocks funding for DoJ and DEA on Hemp and MMJ (yay!)

[Ruby the Liberal]

Sensible news for a change...

States with legal hemp cultivation and medical marijuana programs just got historic support from Congress.

Included in the federal spending bill released late Tuesday are amendments that prohibit the Department of Justice from using funds to go after state medical marijuana operations and that block the Drug Enforcement Administration from using funds to interfere in state-legal industrial hemp research.

“The enactment of this legislation will mark the first time in decades that the federal government has curtailed its oppressive prohibition of marijuana and has instead taken an approach to respect the many states that have permitted the use of medical marijuana to some degree," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), who in May introduced the medical marijuana protections amendment with co-sponsor Rep. Sam Farr (D-Calif.), told The Huffington Post Wednesday.

“This is a victory for so many, including scores of our wounded veterans, who have found marijuana to be an important medicine for some of the ailments they suffer, such as PTSD, epilepsy and MS," Rohrabacher added.

If passed, the bill would protect medical marijuana programs in the 23 states that have legalized marijuana for medical purposes, as well as 11 additional states that have legalized CBD oils, a non-psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that may be therapeutically beneficial in severe cases of epilepsy.

Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/10/congress-blocks-feds-from_n_6302530.html

[fredamae]

1. And takes away More NA Land

Screw Retirees And overrides the voters in DC for legalization.......

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. And much more ...

Here are just 8 of the worst things: http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/12/10/3601742/cromnibus-lowlights/

but hey ... you get to smoke as much as you like, unmolested, so ...

[fredamae]

4. Thanks for link-If we think things are bad

Now-just wait until Jan 3, 2015

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. I am not aware of all that is in the bill

but I will say that I approve of this amendment. Step in the right direction on this issue.

Thanks for the heads up on the (expected) poison pills buried in there. I trust these morons about as far as I could lift and toss them.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Good.

Need I ask how Debbie Wasserman-Schultz voted on that bit?

[jwirr]

6. Oh, yes. This same bill allowed Indian Reservations to grow their own without interference. Since I

am on a reservation that is what I heard about. Thanks.