Harry Reid BACKS MEDICAL MARIJUANA!

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) came out in favor of medical marijuana Thursday in a Las Vegas Sun interview, becoming one of the highest elected officials in the U.S. government to give his support. "If you’d asked me this question a dozen years ago, it would have been easy to answer -- I would have said no, because [marijuana] leads to other stuff," Reid was quoted as saying. "But I can’t say that anymore." "I think we need to take a real close look at this,” he added. “I think that there’s some medical reasons for marijuana."



Although it remains illegal under federal law, polls show that most Americans support medical marijuana. And Attorney General Eric Holder announced in August that the Department of Justice would not interfere, at least at first, as states that have legalized weed for adults create their regulatory regimes -- a dramatic policy shift from federal authorities' targeting of medical marijuana dispensaries that were legal under state law.



House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) also supports medical marijuana. Neither Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) nor House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) does. Reid's home state of Nevada is trying to implement a medical marijuana law signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval (R), but officials recently announced they would miss an April 1 deadline to accept applications from growers and sellers.



Reid, who is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said he had never tried marijuana. As for the laws legalizing recreational pot in Colorado and Washington, he said, "I don’t know about that."



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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/harry-reid-medical-marijuana_n_4612659.html

[Phlem]

1. This will be interesting.

-p

[babylonsister]

2. Legal weed will add so much $$ to every state's coffers; it's a no-brainer imo. nt

[Segami]

3. Reid can't wait to unpack

and try out the bong he got for Christmas.

[tridim]

4. Big chunks are falling out of the dam now.

[Cha]

5. Marijuana is the gateway

Times have changed Senator Reid.. these are High Times. There are study after study of the positive effects of Medicinal MJ.

[sheshe2]

6. Please proceed Harry!

[NightWatcher]

7. thank you, signed Sick People

now lets get the show on the road

[SHRED]

8. I think I just heard the Libertarian Party...

...soiling their underwear.

[a2liberal]

9. The cynic in me

thinks this is more leading to legalizing drug company extracts