Barbara Lee in, Nancy Pelosi out of Pot Bill

[Jacob Bell]

Barbara Lee is all in. Nancy Pelosi is all but entirely out.

The marijuana legalization bill to be introduced in Congress by Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is of great interest to the Bay Area, where the country's legal cannabis movement began, and where federal law enforcement would be thrown out of the marijuana enforcement game once and for all if the bill becomes law.

Bay Area members of Congress are getting on board: Rep. Barbara Lee of Oakland and Rep. Pete Stark of Fremont have both signed onto the marijuana legalization bill as co-sponsors. But the heaviest hitter of all, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic Minority Leader, appears to be taking a pass.

Pelosi "rarely co-sponsors legislation," her spokesman told SF Weekly on Wednesday. Asked if Pelosi would be joining her Bay Area colleagues in supporting the Paul-Frank marijuana bill, Pelosi's people did not reply.

Lee will support the bill, expected to be introduced on Thursday, "because I believe it is time to turn the page from this failed drug war," she told the Oakland Tribune.

"The human cost of the failed drug war has been enormous -- egregious racial disparities, shattered families, poverty, public health crises, prohibition-related violence, and the erosion of civil liberties," Lee said, according to the newspaper. "And of course the cost in dollars and cents has been staggering as well -- over a trillion dollars spent to incarcerate tens of millions of young people."

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[RaysDad]

Nancy Pelosi is a two faced queen B#T#H. This woman of power is a threat to all free-thinkers in CA. and the country. RD

 

[Rawness]

its true this needs to stop im tired of seeing dumb head lines in the new like "us government shutdown "

or " the role in libya "

we are spending 15 billion dollars yearly on the fail war on drugs putting people in jail for growing plants and possession of it? maybe if we stopped the war on drugs we can have the funding to help Nato in libya

 

[Odin]

Nancy Pelosi is a two faced queen B#T#H. This woman of power is a threat to all free-thinkers in CA. and the country. RD

Yup. This doesn't surpise me one bit.

 

[Brinna]

Nancy Pelosi is a two faced queen B#T#H. This woman of power is a threat to all free-thinkers in CA. and the country. RD

Maybe women of power are simply a threat to guys?
Just saying.

 

[whiteraven86]

This bill will only work if the authority incumbent with cannabis being classified as a schedule one narcotic is removed. There is ample justification, I believe, for another Supreme Court challange to force the reclassification downward to at least to schedule three and possibly schedule four. Cannabis never has met the criteria to be classified as a schedule one narcotic along with Heroin and cocaine.