God Loves Weed Bill Moves Forward in Texas Legislature

[roo_ster]

OK, maybe not the most objective thread title.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2015/05/full_weed_legalization_bill_somehow_escapes_texas_house_committee_will_now_die_more_noble_death.php

Of all the marijuana bills flitting about the state capitol in Austin this year, Representative David Simpson's is the most radical. Simpson somewhat famously wants to regulate weed like any other crop because, in his words, "God doesn't make mistakes."
It was shrewd gambit by Simpson, appealing to his Tea Party base's love for God and small government. Now, somehow, it has impressed the members of the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee enough that they voted 5-2 late Wednesday to send the bill on from the committee.

True, some obstacle remain.

Combine this with a refusal to work with the feds on weed-related cases and you might get somewhere.

[Devonai]

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

[bedlamite]

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" -Abraham Lincoln

[Jamisjockey]

While it won't pass the house....I think it goes to show a lot of the general attitude that is beginning to swing forth in the country.  Liberty is making a comeback.  Kicking and screaming, but it is.

[Firethorn]

"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet" -Abraham Lincoln

*snerk*

[lee n. field]

.I think it goes to show a lot of the general attitude that is beginning to swing forth in the country. 

Front page story in the local paper one day recently was about the new weed farm starting up somewhere.  Love that ag stuff.

[Perd Hapley]

While it won't pass the house....I think it goes to show a lot of the general attitude that is beginning to swing forth in the country.  Liberty is making a comeback.  Kicking and screaming, but it is.

On guns and pot, and that's about it.