In this video from The Providence Journal at projo.com, Rhode Island house minority leader, Robert Watson, tells his side of the story concerning the DUI traffic stop that occurred on Tuesday in which he was found to be in possession of small amounts of marijuana and a wooden pipe.
Read the full in-depth article and get involved in the discussion at, "The Providence Journal" (projo.com)
Here we have a lawmaker exempting himself from the law because, wait for it... he's in the business of making laws. Being in such a compromising position, he wants us to believe that he had no recourse but to break the law, or else he may face the possibility of not being re-elected, thus losing his job.
Well, Mr Watson, this is the very predicament that millions of Americans have faced over the seventy years that our nation has waged a war against marijuana. The propaganda and prohibitionist programs born in Washington and enacted across the country, even the world, have lead to a state of such social phobias regarding cannabis that even patients fear the ramifications of rumors of their use of this effective medicine.
-PH
Friday, April 29, 2011
Legislators Pass New Restrictive Medical Marijuana Bill in Montana
From Forbes.com:
HELENA, Mont. -- Montana lawmakers passed a revised version of a medical marijuana overhaul bill Thursday after rejecting Gov. Brian Schweitzer's amendment to allow 25 patients per pot provider and to let those providers make a profit.
Legislators in both chambers agreed to the governor's changes increasing privacy rights for patients and procedural changes for accessing the drug. But after frenzied negotiation over the governor's amendments to increase pot access, legislators decided to leave mostly intact the strict regulations included in the bill they passed Wednesday.
In a letter to the Senate president, Schweitzer said he was disappointed with SB423 in its current form, saying the bill had unconstitutional provisions and that he feared the limited access in the overhaul would drive patients to the illegal market for marijuana.
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