The crowd included lawyers representing doctors interested in establishing dispensaries, hospital management wanting to understand the legal ramifications of prescribing medical marijuana, representatives from the local chapter of NORML, and medical patients whose symptoms will be alleviated by marijuana.
The technology has indeed led to "the interdiction of 7,500 pounds of cocaine" and "230,500 pounds of marijuana," a representative for US Customs and Border Protection told VICE News.
Eleven pages in the House of Representatives have been discharged for smoking marijuana, a spokesman for Representative Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the minority leader, said.
The test screens for cocaine, benzodiazepine (Xanax), methamphetamine, amphetamines, narcotic analgesics, methadone and THC representative of marijuana usage within the past few hours.
Fifty-three percent of Republicans say they would be at least somewhat upset about the revelation that their own representative smokes marijuana, and 57percentt of Americans age 65 and over feel the same way.
When we began the legislative session, I did not feel the governor would support any marijuana legislation," said state Representative Katie Edwards, a South Florida Democrat who co-sponsored the legislation.
Ultimately, the Congress must reform or repeal the marijuana laws, but elected representatives still feel no pressure to do so.
"Marijuana users are much more representative of the overall adult population in California than medical marijuana populations in other states," said Amanda Reiman, the state policy director for the Drug Policy Alliance, an organization working toward the decriminalization of marijuana.
The bill was introduced by a regular champion of marijuana reform in the House, Representative Earl Blumenauer.
This lack of data is apparent for the psychotropic phytochemical-containing Cannabis plant (marijuana) but may only be a representative example of this problem due to the social and political controversy that surround this plant.
