Thursday, March 29, 2007

News of the Weird

Hell has become Holiday on Ice:

http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=95B8F233-3048-5C12-0029F56B532B8EC8

Several years ago I met with my congressman on behalf of the Marijuana Policy Project. It was 1999 and I - ironically, not even a pot smoker - answered MPP's call and met with Republican representative Jack Kingston. The subject that week was H.R. 3064, a D.C. spending bill which one particularly enthusiastic anti-marijuana rep - Bob Barr of Georgia - had shoved in an amendment which would overturn D.C.'s medical marijuana initiative. At the time, Bob Barr was an outspoken right-wing meanie (Clinton-hating, gun-toting) who claimed that medical marijuana was a 'dangerous mind-altering drug'.

Flash-forward to today. Former representative Barr is now lobbying for the Marijuana Policy Project(!). Read the article linked above.

NTD

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