Redefining Grass In Grass-Root Lobbying
January 13, 2008 at 9:08 am
The Washington Post Magazine interviews marijuana lobbyist Aaron Houston, who gets into the weeds with this fascinating tidbit:
I lobby to enact protection for medical marijuana patients and their caregivers, primarily, and I also focus on the larger government’s war on marijuana. Believe it or not, I receive wonderful reception from both the Democratic and Republican members of Congress. One Democratic member told me about a year ago that I was doing the Lord’s work. He said, “Aaron, you’re laboring in the vineyards.” And, less than a year ago, I was talking to a Republican member of Congress, a very culturally conservative gentleman from the South, who told me that he thought the libertarian side of him agreed with us. He thought that these decisions about medicine, and patients being able to use and have access to medical marijuana, did belong in the hands of the states, but that he thought his district would never support it.
If that repressed Southern conservative gentleman ever does publicly support medical marijuana, maybe he could offer a Joint Resolution?
M. Simon said,
January 13, 2008 @ 9:49 am
Here is how it works in America. The rich go to a doctor to get drugs with a certain effect. The poor buy from the gypsy drug store.
Class War
Treatment vs Recreation
Round Pegs In Round Holes
Our drug war is really a class war. The rich against the poor.
FWIW I’m a Republican. I know. It goes against the grain.
However, our drug war is unadulterated socialism. Price supports for criminals.
M. Simon said,
January 13, 2008 @ 9:50 am
Here is how it works in America. The rich go to a doctor to get drugs with a certain effect. The poor buy from the gypsy drug store.
Class War
Beavis N. Pothead said,
January 14, 2008 @ 10:34 am
Heh-heh: he said “grass”