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03-19-2014, 04:08 PM
Pro-pot Republicans meet this weekend in Houston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06s1c5eXgm8
by Kevin Reece
March 14, 2014 at 4:39 PM
HOUSTON -- A Republican group will hold its inaugural meeting Saturday in Houston as it tries to convince GOP leaders that the legalization of marijuana is a conservative stance, not just a left-wing liberal idea.
"You have the right to control yourself. And to me that's what Republicans stand for,” said Ann Lee, founder of RAMP – Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition. "The drug war goes against every principle we have of smaller government, fiscal responsibility and less intrusion in your private life."
A lifelong Republican, Lee says her original belief in pot as “the devil’s weed” began to change when her son Richard suffered a devastating injury. A workplace accident left him a paraplegic. Suffering from constant nerve pain he says marijuana proved the only effective means of pain management. He moved to California where he could receive medicinal marijuana and has since become a well-known marijuana activist in Oakland.
"And he said marijuana is good for me. And that was a sea change for us,” said Lee.
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read more:
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Pro-pot-Republicans-meet-this-weekend-in-Houston-250390801.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06s1c5eXgm8
by Kevin Reece
March 14, 2014 at 4:39 PM
HOUSTON -- A Republican group will hold its inaugural meeting Saturday in Houston as it tries to convince GOP leaders that the legalization of marijuana is a conservative stance, not just a left-wing liberal idea.
"You have the right to control yourself. And to me that's what Republicans stand for,” said Ann Lee, founder of RAMP – Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition. "The drug war goes against every principle we have of smaller government, fiscal responsibility and less intrusion in your private life."
A lifelong Republican, Lee says her original belief in pot as “the devil’s weed” began to change when her son Richard suffered a devastating injury. A workplace accident left him a paraplegic. Suffering from constant nerve pain he says marijuana proved the only effective means of pain management. He moved to California where he could receive medicinal marijuana and has since become a well-known marijuana activist in Oakland.
"And he said marijuana is good for me. And that was a sea change for us,” said Lee.
...
read more:
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Pro-pot-Republicans-meet-this-weekend-in-Houston-250390801.html