I was enraged to find that Wisconsin voted for medical marijuana yet made the bill so onerous in application that doctors cannot prescribe cannabis for children with epilepsy - which is the reason it was passed in the first place, because, finally, the drug warriors faced the American people and had to say they were too callous to give a shit about children who might die without this medicine.
One child did die because of Wisconsin's law...that was then named after her.
But I am telling you, there would not have been ONE Republican vote for this if not for the reality that they knew they had to respond to the NATIONAL conversation, among parents, asking why our govt. cannot respond to the reality that cannabis has medical value.
What the Senator who brought this bill forward had to say is the real issue regarding all of these state laws - and what she said is that the federal govt. has to change the scheduling of marijuana.
We now have a LARGE majority of states that agree that marijuana has medical value.
The agencies in D.C. that continue this stance will be REVILED by the American public if more children die because of their intransigence. And they should be reviled.
As Republicans in New York mentioned, when discussing this bill - they have had to make a mental journey. They have to undo the decades of lies they have been told by agencies they thought were trustworthy.
The entire nation sees, now, that the DEA, the FDA and the NIDA are untrustworthy agencies who are actively working to harm the American people by their refusal to change the schedule for marijuana.
People around the nation were, for the most part, like Gupta until Feb. of this year. They trusted these agencies were not outright liars. People have learned they were wrong and these agencies are, in fact, outright liars regarding marijuana.
So, this is something people have to adjust to - to see the reality is what Gupta said it was - and those agencies who have been tasked with protecting the American people have, instead, worked to harm them by lying about the medical value of cannabis.
There's a lot of cognitive dissonance to overcome - people don't want to believe that the DEA, the FDA and the NIDA are a bunch of lying scumbags.
But the evidence is clear.
Of course, the BIGGER reality is that Americans have supported medical marijuana for more than 15 years by more than 70% in poll after poll. Politicians ignored this because they relied upon liars to tell the truth. No one asked what particular issues should be covered by medical marijuana, however, and that's what states are trying to work out.
Ten states have tried to go with hemp-cannabis (CBD-only) but that's, again, a demonstration of the stupidity of politicians because THC also has medical value.
They don't want to admit how they have harmed the American people all these years.
They don't want to admit they accepted lies as fact and that the claims made against their positions, for all these years - since Nixon, were true, while those who are supposedly the leaders of this nation were only the upholders of lies.
So, I'll take this as a victory because it's taken so long.
And I will take this victory to say that federal agencies need to either respond to this issue, or those within those agencies who are hindering progress need to be fired and replaced by people who aren't afraid of the truth.
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