Pubdate: Sun, 21 Dec 2014
Source: San Diego Union Tribune (CA)
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Author: Robert W. Holdenvenzon
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n926/a05.html

LET'S BE HONEST ABOUT MARIJUANA'S FUTURE

Regarding "Tribes and the marijuana business" (Dec. 17): The right 
hand of Congress does not know what the left hand is doing.

In the spending bill just passed, while the left hand passed 
Republican Rep. Rohrbacher's bipartisan amendment to legalize medical 
pot in states that have approved it, the right hand passed a drug 
warrior's amendment to flout the will of 70 percent of D. C. voters 
to legalize what in 1937 the American Medical Association called a 
"harmless medicine" when it opposed the first federal anti-pot law.

Allowing poverty-stricken Indians to grow and sell pot is within 
their rights as sovereign nations, as you correctly pointed out, just 
as our Founding Fathers did.

President Obama should issue an executive order to reschedule pot 
according to Congress's new and sensible approach to medical pot, and 
in agreement with the 1937 testimony of the AMA.

Robert W. Holdenvenzon

San Diego
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