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California Representative Dana Rohrabacher has been fighting for medical marijuana in Congress for years now, and is willing to take the fight all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.
“Marijuana laws in this country have violated every basic principle this country stands for over the last 75 years. It’s time to stop,” Congressman Rohrabacher said at a recent cannabis talk. “If we have to take it all the way to the Supreme Court, we will win on this.”
In 2014, the Congressman co-authored the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, which blocked the Justice Department from spending federal funds on prosecuting legal medical marijuana users or businesses. The amendment, which was due to expire, was just added to a recent omnibus spending bill.
“I had to work really hard to make sure it was in the omnibus bill,” Rohrabacher said. “I had to run around and talk to people and twist arms.”
Rohrabacher, who has used medical marijuana himself to treat his arthritis, has made plans to discuss medical marijuana with Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The two men have known each other since they were teenagers, and Rohrabacher called Sessions “an honest man and person…
