(Medi)-Pot Paranoia
Which GOP committee chair is keeping medical marijuana at bay?
By Richard Whittaker, 2:35PM, Wed. May 2, 2007
Someone's seeing pot smokers everywhere in the Lege. After functionally killing this session's medical-marijuana bill, Rep. Dianne White Delisi, R-Temple, got all excited in this morning's House Public Health Committee meeting while discussing House Bill 574, a bill that would start a long and very slow consultation exercise on how the state controls pain medication. Somehow, Delisi saw through the smoke and saw this for what it was - backdoor medi-pot! Determined to expose it for what it was, Delisi got all McCarthy up in this House … Committee Chamber.
"Is your organization in favor of medical marijuana?" probed Delisi of one witness from Texas Partnership for End-of-Life Care, an advocacy group working for better pain-management policies in the state.
"Er, no," came the reply from the confused witness (confused only because the question had nothing to do with her testimony).
Ha! Take that, hippies!
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