The Libertarian Party has always advocated for drug policy reform. With the issue of medical marijuana (cannabis) it’s a no-brainier! A person has the right to determine how to treat themselves. The government should remove the politics and allow patients their right to seek cannabis therapeutics.
The public supports medical marijuana. The Georgia General Assembly supports it. Polls indicate 62% to 77% of voters support cannabis as medicine.
So what’s the problem? In this essay libertarian activist James Bell (Georgia C.A.R.E.) explains the political process. As published in the AJC.
No one would have predicted that medical marijuana legislation — with near-unanimous support from the Georgia House and Senate, the governor’s office, law enforcement agencies and the public — would have failed to pass the General Assembly.
So goes House Bill 885, legislation that would have expanded an old law allowing the use of the cannabis plant — marijuana — for certain medical conditions.
