04/20/10
Happy 420 Everyone
HAPPY 420
This year it means a lot. Not that it meant less before, just that so many significant victories were won in the last 12 months.
The state of California is introducing legislation to fully legalize this November and THAT LEGISLATION WILL PASS.
Eric Holder, US Attorney General declared the Drug War over and that is victory. We have won this long, miserable war that has claimed and ruined more American lives than any war in our history.
The Obama administration is the first since Nixon to not wage war against the American people.
There is still much to be done, law enforcement in some states and areas are still playing cut-and-run. But we have won.
All ur base are belong to us!
Celebrate, people. Celebrate the conquest of ignorance and the demise of Right Wing efforts to label us as criminals. Light up, celebrate.
You’ve earned it. 
Now…
I do have to take this opportunity to express some dismay and a great deal of disappointment in my fellow Tennessee “Liberal” bloggers. Many (not all) of them have failed miserably to support compassion and fiscal responsibility. Though some of us have written in support of the Tennessee Medical Marijuana Act, far too many who fancy themselves “Liberal” or “Progressive” in this state have failed miserably to show support for the measure and the fine members of our General Assembly who introduced it.
There are only four or five legislators in Tennessee who have the brains and guts to stand tall on this defining Progressive issue. We owe them more than our silence.
Sen. Beverly Marrero and Rep. Jeanne Richardson are back again this year with bills that would allow doctors to recommend medical marijuana to seriously ill Tennesseans. In 2009, similar bills stalled in their respective committees, but advocates are hopeful this year will be different.
SB 2511 and HB2562 — the Safe Access to “Medical Cannabis Act” — would allow terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana with their doctor’s permission. Under the bill, approved patients would be issued Safe Access Program ID cards that would allow them to purchase medical marijuana from participating distribution outlets, and would protect them from arrest for the medical use of marijuana.
If you believe in compassion, as a Tennessean you have no choice but to speak out in support of this legislation. If you have the power of Blog, you have no excuse.
