Dana Rohrabacher: “I was not going to get up until I heard the legalistic arguments against this proposal. Let me just say, my mother…”

“I was not going to get up until I heard the legalistic arguments against this proposal. Let me just say, my mother passed away recently. She had a major operation. I went to the hospital to visit her. She had lost her appetite, and she was in severe pain. She had lost her appetite because she had been taking pain medicine. When I talked to her and tried to comfort her, I was very grateful that I had voted for medical marijuana in my State when we had the election there, because that is what she needed for her situation where her outlook on life was so bad, and she was in such pain. She needed to regain her appetite and could not survive without regaining her appetite. The people of my county, a very conservative county, voted overwhelmingly for this, or it was a strong majority, anyway. The fact is the Federal Government should not come into a State or to my area where the people have thus voted because of their humanitarian concerns or whatever and supersede the vote of the people. This is a democracy. It is also a Federal system. When we have people at that level voting that a drug should be used for medical purposes, the Federal Government should not supersede that vote.”