Rep. Boucher Testifies Against Legalizing Marijuana
March 8, 2007
Wilton Villager
State Rep. Toni Boucher, [R-143rd, Wilton, Norwalk], testified before the legislature's Judiciary Committee opposing House Bill 6715 An Act Concerning the Palliative Use of Marijuana, that legalizes marijuana for "medical purposes." Boucher told the Judiciary Committee that the legalization of marijuana as "medicine" sends the wrong signal to Connecticut children who are taught not to use drugs.
"This bill would take our state down a dangerous path. Marijuana is a harmful drug that doesn't save or improve lives. It can undermine the seriously ill's best prospect of recovery and can ruin their life," said Boucher who has fought repeated attempts to legalize marijuana for "medical purposes" at the General Assembly.
Rep. Boucher urged the Judiciary Committee, in her testimony, to vote against the bill.
"Passing bills that encourage a smoked filled lung from whatever the source-tobacco, pollution or a smoked drug such as marijuana is not safe and makes no sense," said Rep. Boucher.
"Smoked marijuana contains hundreds of chemicals that have not been studied by scientists, and that the element of marijuana used for treating nausea is available without the harmful side effects of smoking marijuana."
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