Reminder: Congressman Pete Sessions is also harming vets

In this roundup article in the Portland Mercury by Vince Sliwoski, an attorney with Harris Bricken law firm, he smartly reminds us that the veterans amendment was the last good marijuana amendment to receive a vote on the floor of the U.S. House … back in 2016.

Congressman Pete Sessions (R-Dallas) single-handedly blocked all other good amendments from reaching the House floor in 2016, and then in 2017 he doubled-down by screwing all patients — veterans and civilians alike.  (If enacted, the veterans amendment would have prevented the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs from punishing VA physicians for recommending medical marijuana to veterans who live in states where it’s legal.)

Unlike the now-famous “Leahy/Rohrabacher amendment” — named after lead sponsors Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) — the veterans amendment has never been enacted into law, despite both chambers of Congress having passed a pair of veterans amendments in 2016.

(The problem was that those two veterans amendments were worded differently from one another.)

The Marijuana Leadership Campaign‘s new Marijuana Leadership PAC and forthcoming “Super PAC” are focusing on what Mr. Sliwoski suggests below:

“The way to fix this one is probably to vote Pete Sessions out of office, which Texans have an opportunity to do this November. That could conceivably happen: Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer’s Cannabis Fund has been buying up billboards in Sessions’ district criticizing the Sessions embargo. The district is currently rated ‘Lean Republican,’ which means it could flip if a solid challenger emerges. Republicans have been losing those types of races lately.”

It’s nice to see people gelling around this common cause — doing god’s work, advocating for small government, and helping veterans.  Wait, are we better Republicans than Pete Sessions is?