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!
This article appears in April 27 • 2007.
