Drug Policy

that's happening now - and one Rep. had a hemp amendment added to a recent ag bill but it was removed.

But Weyden said the hemp issue would be back.

the way I see it - if you look at polls, the American people have supported legal medical marijuana for more than a decade because so many have seen evidence that mmj stops nausea - and, specifically, smoked (or vaped) mmj works within seconds.

marinol is not as effective - patients prefer the herb b/c it works faster and has CBD (another cannabinoid) while marinol only has THC. Given a choice between the two, people chose marijuana - based upon their experience as cancer patients. At least that's the information supplied from doctors from reports from their patients...and those people, at this point, know more about it than anyone else dealing with the issue.

For more than a decade - an overwhelming majority of Americans have supported legal mmj - more than 70% for more than a decade. That's pretty amazingly consistent, in spite of govt. propaganda.

Truth, derived from experience, seems to have overcome every bit of propaganda from the govt regarding this issue.

And the most recent poll on this issue from a conservative polling org showed that the majority of Americans favored legal recreational marijuana, too.

In spite of govt. propaganda.

I think these changes have come about because people have been exposed to facts.

I think the huge change in support for legal marijuana has happened because people have access to the internet, can read studies for themselves, and the govt cannot control the flow of information.

The problem, at this point, is that the American people are far ahead of the federal govt on this issue - because some people's jobs are at stake, the funding for their bureaucracies is at stake, and their power is threatened - at the federal level of govt., from funding from certain industries, and from the industries themselves.

It's sort of the same problem that we have with the banksters and Wall Street - a few with too much power to influence legislation and other actions are protecting themselves at everyone else's expense.