A Colorado lawmaker has introduced legislation to stop the state's marijuana dispensaries from accepting food-stamp benefit cards, although there's no evidence that any dispensary has accepted such payments. Benefit cards allow welfare recipients to buy only certain food items or to withdraw cash at automatic teller machines. And no, hash brownies aren't on the list of the acceptable baked goods.Republican Sen. Vicki Marble says she began working on her legislation in August, despite claims on the blogsphere that she was inspired by a faux-news report from early January. To prove she wasn't the victim of a hoax, Marble produced an e-mail dated September 4 from a legislative attorney, who was working with her on the bill.The satirical article, entitled “Colorado Pot Shop Accepting Food Stamps – Taxpayer Funded Marijuana for Welfare Recipients,” was published by The National Report, a faux news site, on January 1. Other recent headlines on the site include: "Chris Christie Implicated in Grocery Store Lane-Blocking Scandal" and “Colorado Pot Shop Attempts To Disarm Citizens With ‘Weed for Guns’ Buyback Program.”Food stamp benefit cards cannot be used in liquor stores, says Marble, so all her bill does is to treat pot dispensaries and liquor stores equally. Marble's bill would also prohibit the use of benefit cards at ATM machines at strip clubs and other adult-entertainment establishments. The state already prohibits withdrawing public assistance funds at casinos and gun shops.
getting closer to Nov. you can tell because the real right wing freaks are venturing out in broad daylight, laws get passed those who oppose cast their votes, it passes and it gets ratified. then up pops the whack a moles with truly ridiculous reasons why that majority that voted for it was either wrong or misguided.
this i think is a thinly veiled attempt by another selfish republican to deny food stamps. note everything they have railed about as a violation of some law or protocol are all empty accusations the right wing has been throwing bricks they land 3-4 feet from them so "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" would seem to apply here. after all it's a proven fact they do the dirt then try to blame Pres. and everything else that happens during his tenure.
unlike Bush who is responsible for nothing but wants credit for everything.
