The Senate is awaiting a vote on a bill that would double penalties for any edible products combined with medical marijuana in California and other states that provide relief for patients. S. 258, the Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act, was introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein and is using a media scare about “candy flavored methamphetamine” to attack medical marijuana patients and providers, according to the Students for a Sensible Drug Policy.
Some medical marijuana users are so sick that they are unable to smoke their medicine and must eat it in baked goods or lozenges. They are already breaking federal law and risking prosecution but if S. 258 passes, the penalties they face would double.
Senator Feinstein is the new chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control. She is also very old. There is no telling how her anti-marijuana views may backfire when she finds herself needing medical pot as her body starts to fall apart at the seams.
Click here to send her a letter opposing her attack on medical marijuana.
Just sent the letter. Feinstein is starting to make Ben Nelson look like Alan Grayson!
Thanks Carl! Yes she is…
I didn’t know she was even still alive.
Tony,
She looks like she is made of wax! Probably held together by plastic surgery at this point…
Let’s invite DiFi to our next bake sale!
The only time I voted for a Republican senator was for Tom Campbell, when he ran against Feinstein. His moderate views were refreshing.
Rapscalion,
He would have been preferable to Fiorina.
Agreed! Fiorina is a weak candidate against Boxer; if they were smart enough to have pushed Campbell through this time, he’d be a real threat.
“Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act”… wow spare me
Kids need to be saved from crappy politicians!
As medical edible manufacture for hospitalized AIDS and chemo patients in Cal. under 215, I ask the senator from the great state of California this: Please tell our patients yourself they can no longer take this medicine in edible form, the only form a lot of them find effective. I would like to see what they have to say to you.
But they can smoke if she gets her way.
This is a lawmaker that needs replacing.
She is a stupid old prude. Senator Debra Bowen in 2012! DiFi is just a creature of the 50s.
DiFi is a foolish old conservative. Isn’t she supposed to be a progressive Democrat.
No one dies from Marijuana use.
Herb
One would think Diann that by now you would have learned something about freedom and acceptance. Not everything fits the cookie cutter catholic girl’s perspective that you hang on to like gold. Think of the good it does, Not the harm you hear the next time you have a drink. Shame Dianne Shame on you. How can you even say you’re a SanFranciscan.
This act doesn’t prohibit medical marijuana patients from eating their marijuana. it is an attempt to control marketing of drugs to minors by using candy as a lure. Do you think children should eat marijuana brownies or candy? For mm patients, there are many ways to ingest marijuana other than as brownies or candy. Moreover, there is a pill form of THC. Moreover, the patients’ caregivers could bake their own brownies–it is not rocket science and would be perfectly legal to give to over 21 year old patients. Also, this passed the Senate unanimously, so you had better email all the rest of the senators. Elect some stoners to the senate if that will make you happy. You are so addicted to marijuana that you have lost your collective minds.
1/15/2009–Introduced.Saving Kids from Dangerous Drugs Act of 2009 – Amends the Controlled Substances Act to make it unlawful for any adult (at least 18 years of age) to knowingly and intentionally manufacture, create, distribute, or dispense, or to possess with such intent, a Schedule I or II controlled substance that is:
(1) combined with a candy product;
(2) marketed or packaged to appear similar to a candy product; or
(3) modified by flavoring or coloring with the intent to distribute, dispense, or sell it to a person under 21 years of age. Imposes enhanced criminal penalties for violations. Exempts any controlled substance that has been approved by the Secretary of Health and Human Services under the drug approval process or that has been altered at the direction of a medical practitioner for a legitimate medical purpose.