Congress allows medical marijuana in DC

@ john
Wow, I didn't know that. There are neighborhoods in downtown Eastside Vancouver (Canada's west coast) that have an HIV and Hepatitis problem that is actually worse than anywhere in Africa. You probably know that story though, it's where insite was founded.

Wow, I never got the pun - "in"site. "In" your veins. :-/

Since DC is a city-state like the Vatican and Greater London, I'm slightly worried that this law may be broken in ways we've never seen before! Better than not having it though, good for DC. Big homicide rate there due to lack of a second amendment. Gun laws don't scare murderers...

All good stuff, but:

"Funding for the White House "drug czar's" ad budget has been slashed by more than a third of its size last year. Studies have repeatedly shown that these ads actually cause teens to use more -- not fewer -- drugs."

This is overstating the case somewhat. There is research (from Harvard, I believe) showing a positive correlation between advertising and drug use, but... well, like I said, it's overstating things a big.

Its about damn time. I really don't care about the medical cannabis but about the needle exchange programs. DC has an AIDs rate that qualifies as a severe epidemic, on par with Uganda.