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    Tom Coburn

    Late last week, Congress passed a measure involving the FDA that did not include a dangerous amendment that could have undermined the 12 state laws that are protecting medical marijuana patients from arrest and jail.

    The FDA bill??s passage marks the defeat of the greatest threat the medical marijuana movement has ever faced.

    The threat was in the form of an amendment that was authored by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and attached to the Senate version of the FDA bill back in April. The House thankfully omitted Sen. Coburn??s amendment from its version of the FDA bill, and the final bill that President Bush is expected to sign also did not include Sen. Coburn??s amendment.

    This victory is the result of MPP??s tireless work on Capitol Hill ?? and your calls, e-mails, and faxes to your members of Congress. Also important were the behind-the-scenes calls from major MPP allies to key members of Congress.


    The defeat of Sen. Coburn??s amendment feels really, really good. He is perhaps the number-one opponent of medical marijuana in the U.S. Senate; for example, last year he told MPP??s lobbyist that ??marijuana is not a medicine, and the doctors and scientists who say it is one are smoking it themselves.?

    Sen. Coburn's amendment was a thinly veiled attempt to undermine the medical marijuana laws in 12 states ?? Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington ?? by placing them under the authority of the FDA (in addition to the DEA), while not providing the same approval process for marijuana as for other drugs seeking FDA approval as prescription medicines.

    If the Coburn amendment had become law, a federal agency could have sued, say, the Oregon government for the purpose of persuading a federal judge to shut down Oregon??s medical marijuana ID card program that has done so much to protect more than 10,000 patients in the state.

    MPP and its allies on Capitol Hill successfully worked with members of the House and Senate to remove the offending provision from the final version of the bill ?? making new legislative allies in the process. The House passed the final FDA bill on Wednesday, and the Senate passed it on Thursday.

    Just today, the FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Reports, which documented that our nation just hit a new all-time high for marijuana arrests in the U.S. ?? 829,627 arrests by local and state police (not the feds) in 2006 alone. That??s one marijuana arrest every 38 seconds.


    Contact Sen Coburn at (918) 581-7651 or 405-231-4941 and express your views
    o2bn420 Reviewed by o2bn420 on . Tom Coburn Late last week, Congress passed a measure involving the FDA that did not include a dangerous amendment that could have undermined the 12 state laws that are protecting medical marijuana patients from arrest and jail. The FDA bill??s passage marks the defeat of the greatest threat the medical marijuana movement has ever faced. The threat was in the form of an amendment that was authored by U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and attached to the Senate version of the FDA bill back in April. The Rating: 5

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    Tom Coburn

    I think we all need to get together and vote this prick out next time he suck ass.:rasta::rastasmoke:imp:

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    Tom Coburn

    I think it's about time Oklahoma has a huge marijuana activism protest of some kind. If every pot smoker in Oklahoma did their part we'd be an army.

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    Tom Coburn

    Quote Originally Posted by WeedTillDeath
    I think it's about time Oklahoma has a huge marijuana activism protest of some kind. If every pot smoker in Oklahoma did their part we'd be an army.
    Hell yeah.:rasta::rastasmoke:imp:

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    Tom Coburn

    Sign me up!

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    Tom Coburn

    great

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    Tom Coburn

    Quote Originally Posted by WeedTillDeath
    I think it's about time Oklahoma has a huge marijuana activism protest of some kind. If every pot smoker in Oklahoma did their part we'd be an army.

    I'm down, any Ideas? I know NORML just set up a Tulsa chapter, maybe they could help get it started...

    It might be better, or at least more fun, to have more of a festival type thing than a protest. People that dont even smoke could come and learn about cannabis and have a good time instead of just a bunch of people picketing and chanting on the news getting arrested, it could get bigger and better every year as popularity grows and shit. idk im stoned, and really thinking about this...

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