GrAS EXAMINES social contracts and civil rights in a free society; DEFINES the terms of our social and political systems, and PROMOTES the paradigms of a liberal democracy: Specifically, that government is created by the will of the people, and can be dissolved by that same will. Cannabis laws are especially scrutinized as they so readily demonstrate the many political and social justice issues inherent in the legislative processes.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
UPDATE on HB 2165: A Bill to Decriminalize Cannabis
See Finally, A Good Idea regarding the Decriminalization bill.
As predicted, The Texas House of Representatives failed to pass the popular HB 2165, claimed to be the most comprehensive and full repeal of marijuana prohibition proposal in the country (June 6, 2015 NORML).
On we march.
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Friday, August 21, 2015
CBD OIL: Placebo or Medicine?
I recently joined a lively thread on Facebook regarding the efficacy of CBD oil. CBD was approved in 2013 for medical use in a bill brought before the Texas Legislature by State Rep. John Zerwas, R-Richmond. The House passed SB 339 on a 96-34 vote. Still, the bill had many detractors. And not just prohibitionists who feared this was the beginning to the end of prohibition, and the sale of non-psycho-active CBD in oral capsules would somehow cause more teenage cannabis use were against the bill (although I’m still a little fuzzy on the correlation between oral CBD and teenage pot smoking, let alone any causation). Even pro-CBD and pro-medicalization groups feel that the bill is “too little, too late.”
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