Southern States could legalize mj (minus TX, of course)

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These States Are Ready To Break The Marijuana Taboo In The Conservative South

Any day now, Alabama -- which was ranked the most conservative state in the country by Gallup last year -- will become the first state in the South to legalize a type of medicine derived from marijuana.

When "Carly's Law," or Senate Bill 174, arrived in the state House of Representatives at 2 a.m. on March 21, politicians on both sides of the aisle reportedly stood up and began chanting for the bill to pass. The measure, which received unanimous support in both chambers, will fund a $1 million study at the University of Alabama on the effectiveness of cannabidiol in treating seizure disorders.

Kentucky

Tennessee

South Carolina

Georgia

Florida

"It is good to see more legislators are recognizing that marijuana has medical benefits, but unfortunately many of these bills will not do anything to help people," said Mason Tvert, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, a national organization that advocates for ending marijuana prohibition.

"In most cases, they do not provide adequate access to the product, and the products allowed are typically not adequate in treating the patients. Twenty states and the nation's capital have adopted effective medical marijuana laws, and there's no reason why these other states cannot do so, as well." he added.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5006454.html

but but but ...

Marijuana still a drug with no accepted medical use, court says

Marijuana will continue to be considered a highly dangerous drug under federal law with no accepted medical uses, after a U.S. appeals court Tuesday refused to order a change in the government's 40-year-old drug classification schedule.

The decision keeps in place an odd legal split over marijuana, a drug deemed to be as dangerous as heroin and worse than methamphetamine by federal authorities, but one that has been legalized for medical use by voters or legislators in 20 states and the District of Columbia.

"To establish accepted medical use, the effectiveness of a drug must be established in well-controlled, well-designed, well-conducted and well-do ented scientific studies [with] a large number of patients. To date, such studies have not been performed," the Drug Enforcement Administration said in defense of its decision. The passage was quoted in Tuesday's opinion.

Judge Harry Edwards, writing for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, said the judges did not dispute that "marijuana could have some medical benefits." Instead, he said, they were not willing to overrule the DEA because they had not seen large "well-controlled studies" that proved the medical value of marijuana.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jan...court-20130123

A beautiful catch-22: no large, well controlled studies of medical mj because DEA greatly restricts all studies in general, and then only with the single mj strain grown by the govt itself. iow, DEA, in its own self-interest, blocks large, controlled studies.

But mj has been more studied than, say, Tylenol


There’s Been Over 20,000 Studies On Marijuana; What Is It That Scientists ‘Do Not Yet Know?’ -

http://blog.norml.org/2010/07/01/the....jxkuokX3.dpuf


about 100 families have moved to Colorado to qualify for medical mj for their kids.