Barney Frank Announces He Will Reintroduce Marijuana Legalization Bill
Posted by The Healthy Toker | Cooking With Cannabis, HR5843, Johnny Weedseed Project, Weed Politics, Weed in the News | Saturday 2 May 2009 12:11 pm
The Healthy Toker’s favorite congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts announced on the Friday, May 1st Real Time with Bill Maher that he is planning on reintroducing his legislation that would remove federal penalties on marijuana.
The original HR5843 was introduced On April 17th of 2008 and has since been stalled in numerous sub committees. The significance of this bill is obvious and numerous congress people had signed on as sponsors.
Sponsors of HR5843
- Sep. 16 Fortney Pete Stark cosponsored this bill
- Jun. 25 Barbara Lee cosponsored this bill
- Jun. 24 Earl Blumenauer cosponsored this bill
- Jun. 05 Jim McDermott cosponsored this bill
- May. 22 Zoe Lofgren cosponsored this bill
- May. 20 Tammy Baldwin cosponsored this bill
- Apr. 24 Wm. Lacy Clay cosponsored this bill
- Apr. 17 Barney Frank sponsored and Ron Paul cosponsored this bill
We’ll keep an eye out and update you when there is more news about this.
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