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Somehow I ended up on the mailing list of the representative whose district I used to be in until the latest gerrymandering<\/del> redistricting, Bob Dold, and today I got a somewhat mysterious e-mail, linking to a page<\/a> touting his success in engineering the passage of an amendment that \u201cwould help thousands of children like 9-year-old Round Lake resident Sophie Weiss,\u201d by providing them with access to CBD oil.<\/p>\n

What is CBD oil, you ask? \u00a0There\u2019s a separate press release<\/a> which identifies this as\u00a0cannabidiol \u2014 or, in other words, if you dig a little further, a pot-derived chemical compound, in liquid form (via Wikipedia<\/a>). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I would suspect that, no matter what one thinks about pot for recreational purposes, most Americans would be willing to say that it\u00a0makes a certain amount of sense to reclassify it at the federal level to allow its use for medical treatment, under the same conditions as any other pharmeceutical (e.g., a true prescription by a legitimate practitioner for a specific dosage, not a referral to a \u201cdispensary\u201d), rather than its current classification as having no redeeming medical value. \u00a0Heck, there are plenty of pain killers and other sorts of medications (e.g., Adderall) which can be abused but can also have valid medicinal purposes.<\/p>\n

Why doesn\u2019t Congress do this? \u00a0Is this a testament to the brokenness of Congress, that they fear that they\u2019d be subject to opposition attacks for doing so? \u00a0I don\u2019t think so; it looks to me like it would have fairly bipartisan support. \u00a0I suspect that, in the end, \u00a0they just don\u2019t care, and would rather live with this unenforced federal law, which nonetheless causes problems and saps credibility, than do anything.<\/p>\n

But judging by this press release, they\u2019ve also just conditioned themselves to believe that the word \u201cpot\u201d has some supernatural power, that it Must Not Be Uttered. \u00a0After all, Dold\u2019s amendment makes no sense, unless you know that we\u2019re talking about pot.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"