Tennessee Inches Toward Medical Marijuana Legalization

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze

After years of denying citizens even the lip service to their basic rights, the Tennessee legislature has moved one small step forward toward making one form of medical marijuana legal.

The new bill HB 1749 is no standard bearer for freedom, but at least it’s a baby step in the right direction.

Unfortunately, the bill faces an uphill battle with law enforcement basically goosestepping to the capitol, and sieg heiling the Drug War alongside their friends in the prosecutor’s office.

Indeed, the congressional committee heard from both traditionally freedom-crushing institutions who were unsurprisingly opposed to any form of medical marijuana. A few brave souls testified in favor of the proposal although their testimony was given less weight by the political class and the corporate media largely due to the fact that their occupations did not involve throwing peaceful people into cages over plants.

Still, the panel of the Committee was left evenly divided until House Speaker, Beth Harwell, broke the tie in support of medical marijuana.

Harwell’s decision to support medical cannabis was most likely influenced by the fact that her sister is a resident of Colorado and uses it to manage her pain.

Given the fact that her sister is not known to be an ax murderer, a school shooter, or a homeless drug addict begging for pennies on the street, it probably seemed pretty obvious to House Speaker Harwell that marijuana wasn’t as dangerous as her colleagues, who are known to be microphones for corporations and law enforcement, have pretended it to be.

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The 4-3 vote now means that the bill will be heard by the full Criminal Justice Committee. Sponsor of the bill, Jeremy Faison, stated,

The more you expose those lies that have brought to us since the 1930s, eventually you can finally get through to somebody.

The bill would allow patients suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease, PTSD, HIV AIDS and Hepatitis C, to obtain cards and buy cannabis from licensed dispensaries. The bill would only allow the sale of cannabis oil and the level of THC would be limited.

The bill will have to go through at least two committees before it reaches the House floor, moves onto the Senate and finally the Governor’s office.

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Brandon Turbeville – article archive here – is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius — The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense Solutions and Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria,and The Difference it Makes: 36 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Should Never Be President. Turbeville has published over 1,000 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbeville’s podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com.