{"id":14748,"date":"2010-04-14T08:09:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/maryland-senate-votes-to-legalize-medicinal-marijuana-with-republican-co-sponsor\/"},"modified":"2010-04-14T08:09:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T08:09:51","slug":"maryland-senate-votes-to-legalize-medicinal-marijuana-with-republican-co-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/maryland-senate-votes-to-legalize-medicinal-marijuana-with-republican-co-sponsor.php","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Senate votes to Legalize Medicinal Marijuana with Republican co-sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Zm6JXvXXze4\/S8KQJ91tB8I\/AAAAAAAAK4k\/PJGdBkB5n7M\/s1600\/DavidBrinkleyMDRep.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/d2cd2_DavidBrinkleyMDRep.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/a><strong>Victorious Republican says it was a \"libertarian cause\"<\/strong><\/p><p>The final vote was 35 to 12.  The Maryland State Senate passed the legislation co-sponsored by a Republican State Senator, to legalize marijuana for medicinal use.  <\/p><p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/bal-md.medical11apr11,0,3794345.story\">Baltimore Sun<\/a>:<\/p><blockquote><p>\"We are very happy,\" said Mike Meno, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, a national organization promoting medical use of pot. \"To vote by such a margin means that the Senate is in line with public sentiment nationally and here in Maryland.\"<\/p><p>Senators from both parties supported the measure, which builds on a Maryland law passed in 2003 that allows leniency to defendants charged with marijuana possession if they can show a medical need.<\/p><p>\"I think the Senate recognized the plight of people who have sick and chronic conditions,\" said Sen. David Brinkley, one of the lead sponsors and two-time cancer survivor. The Western Maryland Republican said he views the issue as a libertarian cause.<\/p><\/blockquote><p>The House will not take up the bill this year due to scheduling.  <\/p><p>Note - MD Republican for Governor, fmr. Gov. Bob Ehrlich is on record in support of medical marijuana.<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/e5817_7828681836623105417-1587595945112018631?l=libertarianrepublican.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorious Republican says it was a \"libertarian cause\"The final vote was 35 to 12. The Maryland State Senate passed the legislation co-sponsored by a Republican State Senator, to legalize marijuana for medicinal use. From the Baltimore Sun:\"We are very happy,\" &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/maryland-senate-votes-to-legalize-medicinal-marijuana-with-republican-co-sponsor.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}