Rep. Steve Cohen (D.TN) Grills Michele Leonhart on the Dangers of Medical Marijuana

Rep. Steve Cohen (D.TN) Grills Michele Leonhart on the dangers of medical marijuana during an oversight hearing of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) -- 20-Jun-2012
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EDIT:

A lot of comments from people pissed that Cohen was cut-off. FYI -- Here is the rest of what he was reading:

"The legalization movement is not simply a harmless academic exercise. The mortal danger of thinking that marijuana is "medicine" was graphically illustrated by a story from California. In the spring of 2004, Irma Perez was "in the throes of her first experience with the drug Ecstasy ... when, after taking one Ecstasy tablet, she became ill and told friends that she felt like she was ..."going to die"... Two teenage acquaintances did not seek medical care and instead tried to get Perez to smoke marijuana. When that failed due to her seizures, the friends tried to force-feed marijuana leaves to her, "apparently because [they] knew that drug is sometimes used to treat cancer patients." Irma Perez lost consciousness and died a few days later when she was taken off life support. She was 14 years old."

Taken from http://www.justice.gov/dea/marijuana_...

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Presumably, Rep. Cohen's next question would have come from a perspective along these lines:

http://goinggreen0408.blogspot.com/20...

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[zestytoaster]

No, it's not because she's a woman, it's because she's clearly unqualified.

[Budguy68]

That bitch is so fuckign worthless..Waste of my Tax money. Her and her whole department should be fired and thrown in the streets and everythign she owns confiscated. Shes destroyed countless lives and has cause a lot of suffering,.

[No Hassls]

Thank you Rep. Cohen for providing a more sensible angle on this issue. If only the feds weren't so in the pocket of the pharma and other industries to see this.

[Johnny Scaletta]

FUCK THE COCKSUCKING DEA

[davis sivad]

Really... you're going to go all fema-nazi because someone called this scumbag of a women a bitch and a ho.

[Nancy Garrett]

I understand Budguy68, I work for an organization N.O.R.M.L, National organization to Reform Marijuana Laws. When you get a chance check out our website. When you first get on the site you should click on ACT, which will bring you to a scroll down menu. first part is fed information. Scroll down to your state and find out what is happening in your state and you can send letters already for you to just insert you name and address, hit enter and your letter's will go out to your elected officials.

[AlecMittens]

they pay her to do exactly what shes doing. dont answer any questions so the dea can keep fighting their losing battle

[AlecMittens]

you mean the dea? that might be a bit extreme but definitely her

[x86ricer]

A perfect example of wasteful spending by our government to pay her salary. She has to be some kind of puppet.

[cronicd21]

Ignorant conservative bitch, this woman should be locked up.

[Brian Turner]

How does this lady still have her job after this? I mean she doesn't know shit.