Medical Marijuana Bill Moves Through Maryland Senate In Landslide

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/10/medical-marijuana-bill-mo_n_532962.html

The Maryland Senate voted on Saturday to allow patients access to medical marijuana at state-licensed dispensaries. The bill now moves to the state's lower chamber.

The bill was approved overwhelmingly, with bipartisan support and without objections or discussion, by a 35-12 margin.

Maryland would join 14 other states in legalizing medical marijuana. The neighboring District of Columbia legalized it in a 1998 referendum that was only recently allowed by Congress to go into effect. The District's city council is writing rules to establish the city's medical marijuana policy.

Current Maryland law allows defendants charged with pot possession to cite a medical necessity defense. If a judge deems the drug to be beneficial, a maximum hundred dollar civil fine is imposed.



Maryland Senate Votes to Legalize Medical Marijuana
http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0410/724449.html

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1. K&R!

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2. K&R.. You know what I really love about this..

While the tea baggers and Republicans are busy fucking around with Obama's birth certificate, Nazism, Socialism, blah blah blah, while they are busy protesting non existent policy, phantoms, and shiny things, the states are quietly passing Marijuana reform. By the time the Repugs figure it out it'll be too late...