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Federal Representative Applauds Senate Medical Marijuana Bill

Submitted by Marijuana News on Tue, 03/17/2015 - 08:00

 Congressman Earl Blumenauer has been a longtime champion of sensible marijuana law reform. As a state legislator in Oregon, he voted to decriminalize personal amounts of marijuana all the way back in 1973. He has been at the forefront of cannabis law reform ever since, even when it wasn’t near as politically popular as it is today. He was very instrumental in the fight to legalize marijuana, even debating the merits of Measure 91 at the Salem City Club against Oregon’s most prominent prohibitionist.

Not only has he supported reforms, but he has worked to reach across the aisle and work with Republicans and conservatives, those he has very little else in common with politically. Not many liberal Democrats hold a joint press conference with conservative anti-tax icon Grover Norquist, but when Representative Blumenauer needed political allies to help pass sensible tax reform for state-regulated marijuana businesses, he put other...

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