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Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana
#14040453 - 02/28/11 06:02 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Barney’s Frank talk about pot February 28, 2011 - BostonHerald.com
U.S. Rep. Barney Frank was honored by pot enthusiasts in Maine Saturday for his advocacy of medical marijuana and an end to the war on weed.
The Newton Democrat was the keynote speaker and the recipient of the first-ever Patients’ Choice Award — a glass trophy in the shape of a marijuana leaf.
“It’s a fight that’s worth fighting, and it’s a fight that is very winnable. Most American people think it’s sensible, and are for it,” an impassioned Frank told a standing-room only crowd at the first Expo Cannabis in Portland on Saturday, according to a recording of the speech obtained by the Herald.
Frank, who is the ranking Democrat on the House’s powerful Financial Services Committee, was feted by the Maine Medical Marijuana Patients Resource Center, a nonprofit organization that’s spent nearly two decades convincing the government that terminally ill people should be allowed to grow, or purchase, medicinal marijuana.
Maine has allowed medical marijuana for 12 years, and the state is now in the process of licensing eight dispensaries.
Center founder Charles Wynott said the group is also working to reduce, and perhaps abolish, penalties for marijuana possession. Wynott presented Frank with the herb-shaped Patient’s Choice Award.
“I just like the man a lot,” Wynott told the Herald. “He’s very straight-forward, and very New England, and he’s the perfect guy to have on our side.”
Visitors to Frank’s offices on Capitol Hill and in the district hoping to see the weed award in the future may be disappointed, however.
“This trophy will stay in Maine, in my partner Jim’s house in Ogunquit. It will keep the faith from there,” Frank told the crowd.
Frank was the center of a controversy when it was reported in 2009 that he was present when police charged Jim Ready for having pot plants at his home in 2007. Frank said at the time he wouldn’t have recognized it if he saw it.
“It’s illogical to say that alcohol is freely permitted if you are 21 or older, but you can’t smoke one marijuana cigarette,” Frank said Saturday.
“In 10 years, we’ll see substantial decriminalization of marijuana.”
Saturday’s event was sponsored by Far Out Magazine and King of Pot Productions. Speakers included physicians, civil libertarians and retired law enforcement officials who want to stop the war on drugs.
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Re: Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana [Re: veggie]
#14040465 - 02/28/11 06:10 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Re: Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana [Re: destructo_low]
#14040506 - 02/28/11 06:46 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Barney Frank is a known pedophile. He does not represent ME.
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Re: Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana [Re: downlowfunk]
#14040517 - 02/28/11 06:51 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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its true, barney frank tried to touch me, and my sister.
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Re: Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana [Re: downlowfunk]
#14040541 - 02/28/11 07:06 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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downlowfunk said: Barney Frank is a known pedophile. He does not represent ME.
I thought all those boys were of legal age in the District?
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Re: Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana [Re: Doc_T]
#14040573 - 02/28/11 07:22 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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Rumors sorry.
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Re: Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana [Re: downlowfunk]
#14040578 - 02/28/11 07:25 AM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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He's a pretty cool dude, apart from the page-diddling.
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Re: Barney Frank honored for his advocacy of medical marijuana [Re: downlowfunk]
#14044757 - 02/28/11 07:43 PM (12 years, 10 months ago) |
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downlowfunk said: Barney Frank is a known pedophile. He does not represent ME.
Its not like they actually want to represent you, they want to represent whoever pays them the most.
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