Oklahoma Governor, Mary Fallin
In Oklahoma, a marijuana brownie has a potential life in prison charge with the overwhelmingly supported House Bill 1798. It passed with a house vote of 75-18 and a Senate vote of 44 to 2 to make any kind of hash production, like a kief screen, or any kind of cooked cannabis product, like a pan of Alice B Tokeless brownies, a felony worthy of a $50,000 fine with two years to life. Then there was the Oklahoma mother who was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and away from her children over selling $9 worth of marijuana to a co-worker. So it should be no surprise that Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin is not going to be an ally for activists in the state who are exploring their options of getting medical marijuana legalized in Oklahoma.
In an online town hall forum she stated very clearly that she is firmly opposed to legalizing marijuana for medical reasons or otherwise. Gov. Fallin says she personally analyzes hundreds of pardon and parole requests each month and by her own estimate 90 percent of those in the system are struggling with substance abuse. She theorizes that many of those began with smoking marijuana. The online forum was hosted by the Oklahoma Republican Party, and Governor Fallin took questions that were posted on the state’s GOP facebook page.
Like many online forums, townhall meetings and questions sessions, dozens of questions for the governor were about legalizing marijuana, allowing for the medical use of marijuana, and exploring revenue possibilities from legal sales of cannabis. Earlier this year, a relatively strict bill to allow medical marijuana in the state for qualifying patients to have up to only 1 ounce of medical cannabis was never even granted a hearing.
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It’s so sad to see how many elected officials aren’t smart enough to look at the real facts. Aside from the propaganda provided by drug enforcement agencies (that benefit themselves in the form of funding and manpower as long as marijuana remains illegal), all the evidence provided by reputable unbiased sources such as university research departments, the medical community, and even reports from government committees have proven that marijuana is misclassified as a schedule I drug.
The fact is that politicians like Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin aren’t qualified to hold the office they were elected to if they aren’t smart enough to tell the difference between self serving propaganda and real scientific facts. Marijuana may not be a miracle drug, but it certainly isn’t the demon drug it’s been presented as for so many years.
If she can’t see past the drug enforcement agencies self-serving propaganda, then she shouldn’t get voted in for another term. U.S. States deserve smarter governors than people like Mary Fallin.
I’d move.
It’s Not “Just Recreational” Anymore !
Ganeshb
This is why you dont vote for anyone that will continue this failed policy, they just wont ever look at the facts nor the science behind them, they only believe the lies and all of them should go and now! Move thats fine but does this mean we all have to move west to be free, I guess that could prove a huge point but i think changing your elected officials would be easier! Never vote for these people, even if they are in your party if they wont support what you care about then why would you want to put them into office? You power is your vote use it to change this failed policy.
marijuana should be legal, period.
first and foremost, it is not the responsibility of taxpayers to help or force people to quit using cannabis, or any other drug for that matter.
secondly, prohibition on cannabis and other drugs has spawned the drug cartels that murder innocent people to the tune of 55,000 dead in 2012.
Thirdly, the original intent of prohibition of cannabis had nothing to do with concern for anyone, it was a discriminatory measure, because mexicans smoked it. hence our constant referral to it as MARIJUANA and not by its more legitimate name cannabis – derived from the scientific name.
really there is no rational argument for keeping cannabis illegal. those who argue for its continued illegal status are hypocritical at best, and at worse have truly sinister ulterior motives.
sinister motives such as private prisons needing warm bodies to increase the profit margin of the for-profit companies that run them. I don’t need any evidence to be certain that people like Mary Fallin and other Oklahoma lawmakers probably get kickbacks to keep this status quo.
its disgusting. disgusting human behavior. there is no argument, NO logic to the prohibition of cannabis or any other drug for that matter. it is not the responsibility of taxpayers to make sure people do not do drugs. most people that get arrested for drugs end up using again. and cue the anecdotal story of someone who got clean after an arrest. wake up.