Wednesday, June 22, 2005

Urgent Action Item Via Students for a Sensible Drug Policy. Rep. Bobby Scott ( D-VA ) will introduce an amendment in the next day or two to the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill to shift $10 million to the Department of Labor's Reintegration of Youthful Offenders Program from the Department of Education's Student Drug Testing program. Take away from a bad idea (student drug testing) and give to a good idea (helping youthful offenders get their lives on track). Sounds like a smart plan to me (which means it's not likely to pass). Lets give it every chance and contact your Representative. But do it now -- this Amendment could come up any minute (see links at the top of the page). 6:56:40 PM |  drug policy | Links | permalink | comment []

Senator gets Hodgkin's Disease, supports medical marijuana Link Arlen Specter says he "may introduce legislation" in the Senate in favor of medical marijuana. The U.S. senator, who has long supported the use of human stem cells for disease research, told Your Humble Narrator yesterday that he's in favor of a state's right to decide whether to allow its doctors to prescribe marijuana. Specter himself, who is battling Hodgkin's disease, could be a candidate for medical marijuana use. I'm very appreciative of Senator Specter's decision to support medical marijuana. (And it should be noted that he has supported it in the past, though perhaps not this vocally.) However, wouldn't it be nice if the majority of our Senators, Representatives, and Presidents had the compassion, intelligence and morality to see the rank stench of their denial of medicine to sick people? Must they (or their loved ones) get sick for them to see what must be done? 8:36:56 AM |  drug policy | Links | permalink | comment []