{"id":42346,"date":"2014-05-31T23:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T05:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/the-house-of-representatives-actually-approved-of-something-rational-inconceiva.html"},"modified":"2014-06-01T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T15:08:40","slug":"the-house-of-representatives-actually-approved-of-something-rational-inconceiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/31\/the-house-of-representatives-actually-approved-of-something-rational-inconceiva.html","title":{"rendered":"The House of Representatives actually approved of something rational? Inconceiva…"},"content":{"rendered":"
The House of Representatives actually approved of something rational? Inconceivable!<\/b><\/p>\n

The House voted,\u00a0219-189, to defund Department of Justice raids on marijuana dispensaries where a state has legalized medical marijuana usage. I am, frankly, flabbergasted … by the rationality so displayed. Especially by the House.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Historic Day: Congress votes to support Medical Marijuana states, including Michigan – Metro Times Blogs<\/a>
\n This morning cheers went up across the nation, as Congress, for the first time ever, voted to cease funding the Department of Justice efforts to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries, caretakers, providers, and growers functioning legally under state law. The Department of Justice encompasses the DEA (the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal agency typically tasked with medical marijuana raids). \u201cThe U.S. House of Representatives just …\n <\/p>\n

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The House of Representatives actually approved of something rational? Inconceivable! The House voted,\u00a0219-189, to defund Department of Justice raids on marijuana dispensaries where a state has legalized medical marijuana usage. I am, frankly, flabbergasted … by the rationality so displayed. Especially by the House.\ufeff Embedded Link Historic Day: Congress votes to support Medical Marijuana states, … Continue reading “The House of Representatives actually approved of something rational? 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The Feds should be seeking to get rid of medical marijuana shops, under existing drug laws. Instead, they're targeting ones they deem to be too close to schools.Which sounds like a zoning issue -- and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28442,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/30\/so-glad-to-see-my-tax-dollars-going-to-something-so-critical.html","url_meta":{"origin":42346,"position":2},"title":"So glad to see my tax dollars going to something so critical","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Jun-12 1:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really? The California (etc.) federal prosecutors\u00a0have so little to do that sending scare-o-grams to city officials and landlords about (legal by state law) medical marijuana dispensaries is a worthwhile investment of time? \u00a0Yeesh. 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