The Pot Problem
During our appropriations hearings, Senator Grotberg held the agency’s budget captive, going over all travel expenses for the year trying (unsuccessfully) to find some unnecessary or extravagant spending. (This caused the Committee Chairman to joke, “What? Another fun-filled weekend in Des Moines?”) Finally I was able to get the necessary federal agencies to not only approve a research project, but to provide the marijuana. I flew to Washington and picked up a silver canister labeled “400 Marijuana Cigarettes/U.S. Gov’t. Approved.” I took the can of weed to Springfield and showed it to the senator, who then allowed our budget to pass out of committee.
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Additionally, considering how few plants the current law would allow a patient to cultivate, how much extra medicine can they really expect a patient to sell off? The plants take months to mature and would make it difficult for a patient that truly needs the cannabis to have much excess product after accounting for the time it would take to grow another batch of medicine. As for the possibility of current drug dealers simply getting permission to grow to legally supply their dealing operation, that sounds like an exaggerated concern that could be overcome through proper diagnosis criteria and monitoring of doctor practices by licensing boards.
Brain Fart
Miriam B. Scott
