Pubdate: Fri, 13 Jun 2014
Source: Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
Copyright: 2014 Sun-Sentinel Company
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/159
Author: John Chase
Related: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v14/n505/a08.html

CONGRESSWOMAN WRONG ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

I could barely believe the explanation for why Congresswoman Debbie
Wasserman Schultz voted against legislation that would restrain the
federal government from enforcing laws against medical marijuana in
states where it has been legalized.

Her communications director said the congresswoman voted against the
legislation because "...it is not appropriate to limit the ability of
the Executive Branch to enforce federal law at their discretion."

Has she not read how the late Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
praised the "laboratory of the states" in deciding social issues? Or
of the Swiss use of referendums to decide social issues? Rep.
Wasserman Schultz confuses social policy with criminal justice policy
as exactly the kind of thinking that has made our anti-drug policy so
destructive.

John Chase, Palm Harbor
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