Senate Amendment Introduced to Protect Medical Cannabis States
Senator Rand Paul, a Republican from Kentucky, filed an amendment in the Senate today that would protect states that have
or are implementing medical cannabis programs from federal intrusion. The amendment would also protect patients and physicians in medical cannabis states from federal prosecution.
The amendment, Amendment 3630, was added to a federal jobs bill currently being discussed on the Senate floor. It would allow states to enact and implement laws that “authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of marijuana for medical use”, without fear of prosecution.
“What we’re trying to do is look at the law and allow states that have changed their laws and have allowed medical marijuana to do so, for doctors to be able to prescribe and for people to be able to get those prescriptions without being worried about the federal government coming in and arresting them,” Brian Darling, Rand Paul’s Communications Director, told the Huffington Post today.
A similar amendment which would defund medical cannabis raids passed the House of Representatives in May.
– TheJointBlog
Ras Ible
Everyone needs to support this now by calling Washington and speaking with your representatives.
scott
I have already done so even though we are already legal in Colorado lets get things done federally. Why doesn’t the senate just pass the 3 bills the house already passed and sent to senate.