Barney Frank Quotes
Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
United States, Congress, House. Congressional Record. Government Printing Office.
The judge, at the time was only summarizing the science evidence for the physiological safety of the drug in its natural grown state at that time. Unfortunately drug dealers have learned to extract the active ingredient, THC, and produce marijuana, much more potent than the 1988 variety. Nor did the judge address the behavioral consequence of extensive marijuana use where we know now that some people who get into extensive marijuana smoking tend to have negative consequences for ability to study, concentrate on operating machinery, develop a personal relationship and the like. The extent to which The more potent marijuana represents a physiological health risk ( as opposed to psychological) however is not as well known for lack of research of what the effects are because the government has refused to allow marijuana to be used in experiments nor have they funded any of their own studies. As of 2011 there has been no study that demonstrates serious physiological harm.
Perry was an extreme right wing law and order conservative, but like many extreme rightists had a streak of libertatrianism.
He was also a paid lobbyist for the beer industry.
Barnett Frank is a former American politician. He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1981 to 2013. A Democrat, Frank served as chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011 and was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Act. Frank, a resident of Newton, Massachusetts, was considered the most prominent gay politician in the United States during his time in Congress.
