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The Montana House of Representatives voted Thursday to repeal the state’s six-year-old medical marijuana law. And although party line positions have defined the issue in Montana, with Republicans mostly lined up in favor of restriction or repeal, there is widespread agreement among legislators and residents that medical marijuana has become something very different than it was originally envisioned to be. (NYT, 2/10/11)
Let’s be honest now. Did anyone really think six years ago that every stoner with a hangnail was NOT going to get his prescription for dope? Or, for that matter, that every entrepreneurial dope peddler was NOT going to set up a storefront clinic?
House of Pain
The Obama administration on Friday proposed raising fees for borrowers and requiring large down payments for mortgages in an effort to reduce the government's outsize footprint in the housing market. It also proposed three options for eliminating Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but warned that abolishing the mortgage giants without replacing them could have "particularly acute costs in its potential impact on access to credit for many Americans." (Washington Post, 2/11/11)
Sounds pretty good to RedStateVT. But what is Barney Frank going to say?
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