Thread: Federal Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced by Rep. Ron Paul

Federal Medical Marijuana Bill Introduced by Rep. Ron Paul
House of Representatives to Consider Medical Cannabis Legislation!

Urge Your Representative to Support H.R. 5842 NOW!

“I think marijuana is a helpful medical treatment for the people who have intractable nausea,” Paul said in a 2004 House debate regarding a similar measure. “I would like to point out this is not something strange that we are suggesting here. For the first 163 years of our history in this country, the federal government had total hands off, they never interfered with what the states were doing.”-Ron Paul

Representative Ron Paul and Representative Barney Frank have introduced H.R. 5842, the “Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act”, which seeks to enact legal protections for authorized medical marijuana patients, in the House of Representatives. Now is the time to contact your House member and urge him or her to support this important legislation.

H.R. 5842 will help to ensure that medical marijuana patients in those states where medical cannabis legislation has been approved will no longer have to fear arrest or prosecution from federal law enforcement agencies. However, this proposal will only receive serious consideration if your elected officials hear an unmistakable message of support from their constituents.

Currently, twelve states -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington -- have enacted laws protecting medical marijuana patients from state prosecution. It’s time that we allowed our unique federalist system to work the way it was intended, and permit these states’ citizens and their representatives to enact laws permitting the medical use of cannabis, free from federal interference.

Please take two minutes of your time today to contact your House member and tell him or her to support this important measure.

United States House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 2nd Session


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NORML -- House of Representatives to Consider Medical Cannabis Legislation!



Even if you don’t smoke pot, please urge your representative to fight for safe access for those that do need it.
Why should people be prosecuted for trying to relieve pain? Our bodies are our own, not the governments’.

Hey, Heroin is an effective pain killer, lets legalise that to.

Heroin can be prescribed by doctors

You're thinking of morfin, Pyrofan.

Originally Posted by Pyrofan1

Heroin can be prescribed by doctors

Originally Posted by Marvo

You're thinking of morfin, Pyrofan.

No, he's right. It's legal in the UK.

Ok, I didn't know. That's terrible O.o

Originally Posted by psychology student

Hey, Heroin is an effective pain killer, lets legalise that to.

I don't understand the eye roll. If marijuana is an effective medication that also happens to be abuseable, why is it any different than most prescription meds?

Originally Posted by psychology student

Hey, Heroin is an effective pain killer, lets legalise that to.

How can you even compare them? Have you done research on Cannabis? And what does heroin have anything to do with cannabis?

Originally Posted by Dreamworld

And what does heroin have anything to do with cannabis?

nothing, cannabis is the most safe illegal drug EVER.

no deaths reported in nearly 10,000 years of use, those 10,000 years BTW to everyone who doesn't know tested its medical use VERY extensively.

(this wasn't directed to you but rather the person you quoted)