After this interim’s debacle, looks like they’re erasing Garcia’s Medical Marijuana oversight mess

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Remember this last interim’s Medical Marijuana Oversight Committee led by Representative Garcia which was a clown show – and many other committee sessions were as well?

Not from today’s hearing, but on 10/22 at the end of the meeting, representing Watertown, State Representative Josephine Garcia apparently had quite the rant, where she talks about masturbation:

Umm.. yeah.. Not a comment that we usually hear from someone during a committee hearing.

Otherwise, I do like the part where she says she may not come back.

Read that here.

It appears the decision of whether Garcia could returns as the chair of that committee could be taken out of her hands.

State Representative Tim Goodwin has introduced a measure to make the whole thing go away.

Getting Rep. Garcia out of any positions of authority and reducing bureaucracy sounds like a win in anyone’s book.

Now if they could only get a better State Rep. for District 5?

7 thoughts on “After this interim’s debacle, looks like they’re erasing Garcia’s Medical Marijuana oversight mess”

  1. They had a solid representative but the radicals wanted east coast Garcia. I hope he tries again.

  3. I had to stop using mmj after much deliberation because a) too expensive, and b) knee jerk diagnosed as a drug addict by Avera, c) treated like a criminal by acquaintances and c) the ER misdiagnosed me with drug addiction when I had an allergic reaction to a different medication, which almost cost me my life. It’s not safe, but not because of what it is, because of how patients are treated who use it. Prejudice from SD good old boys is gross.

    1. I hear you. I saw it often enough: once people were diagnosed as “psych patients,” any and all physical complaints were dismissed. As though “psych patients” can’t get kidney stones, gallstones, pneumonia, or have allergic reactions. It’s not right, but it happens. Everywhere, not just in SD

  4. The only bit of optimistic data I’ve seen about this session is that Tim Goodwin is back in there working for us all. He’s a keeper. He was greatly missed the two years he was out.

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