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Souder's War

I haven't read all of this yet, it's a lengthy five part series but it's great reading so far. The Media Awareness Project has archived the entire April Fool's hearing transcript of Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources hearings on medicinal marijuana. Although led by our "favorite" Prohibition Fool -- Mark Souder -- they were no joke.

Souder stacked the committee with his favorite House jesters but many of the participants did not perform as Souder would have liked. I doubt he expected such a strong argument on the Anti-prohibition side.

Rep. Eleanor Norton ( D-DC ) came out of the gate blazing making some strong points.

I would think, though, that the fact that we have eight to 10 states moving ahead to legalize medical marijuana would have caused far more vigorous federal research and leadership than we have seen thus far.

...When it comes to medical marijuana, we are about a serious matter and one that, frankly, I think our government could have found the answer, one way or the other to, long before now. But the greatest objection I have is not about this medical controversy.

...It is putting young people in jail for smoking pot. Wherever you stand on these matters, it doesn't seem to me that we ought to ruin a kids life by giving him a record for smoking pot.

There's plenty more of that kind of talk while Souder can only whine. "We fought a war and said federal law prevails. You don't have a right to nullification. Now, how we enforce those is another question," he said.

The trouble with that statement is, it's a lie. You do have a citizen's right (that was established at the formation of our government) to nullification. Souder's War is a war on you and me folks. It's a war on your personal sovereignty.

We cannabis consumers are not criminals. It's time to vote Souder and those of his prohibitionist ilk out of office so we stop being treated as such.