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In reply to the discussion: Thank you, Bernie!! -- Bernie Sanders Shares His Blueprint for Resisting Trump [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Which forbids the DEA from spending tax dollars in states that have legalized medical marijuana to drag cancer grannies off to prison for eating pot brownies, etc.
DWS has voted against it every time it has come up. That's simply part of the factual record.
And it's not like she's not aware of the stakes- in her own state of Florida, she coordinated with Sheldon Adelson (of all people) to try and defeat Florida's Medical Marijuana amendment 2- successfully in 2014, unsuccessfully in 2016. Meanwhile, though, in 2014 the state of Florida was busy doing things like following this 54 year old medical marijuana patient home from a hydroponics store, whereupon she was facing 10 years in prison for the pot plants she was growing to treat her arthritis pain.
And yes, DWS is in the house of representatives, HOWEVER she took an interest in state-level legislative activism specifically to try and stop medical marijuana reform in Florida. Again, while simultaneously voting to keep federal funds for the DEA to come in and ignore those state-level medical marijuana laws as well.