Indopedia All Things Marijuana
Republican Congressman Andy Harris is not a progressive. The four term legislator from Maryland has been one of the main forces behind Washington D.C.’s continued ban on retail pot shops, despite the District’s legal weed regulations, and once threatened to pull state funding from a public university because a group of students wanted to host an open screening of a big budget porn movie. In his latest move, Harris is abandoning his prohibitive tactics and calling for an increase in cannabis research.
According to Rolling Stone, Harris, a licensed doctor, is the lead sponsor on a new piece of legislation that would expand the legal avenues for cannabis research, in hopes that scientific investigation can give more insight into the plant that’s been federally illegal for decades. But while Harris’ educational push may seem enlightened, the Congressman’s motives are still menacingly ignorant.
“As a physician, I believe it’s going to show it’s really not helpful in a whole lot of diseases,” Rep. Harris told Rolling Stone. “And in fact what will be shown to be helpful – as has been [shown] in a lot of the diseases where it’s useful –are actually not the whole…
