Is There Any Sense in Marijuana Legalization?

Connecticut -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell expressed his highly negative relation to the issue of marijuana legalization saying that the problem could come up for a committee vote in the legislature as soon as today.

Some Democratic lawmakers have been advancing intensively this year for a decriminalization of less than one ounce of marijuana, and Rell had not interlocutory expressed his opinion on a public view on the bill. Two of Rell's representatives said that Rell raises voice against the concept and held their tongues Monday of using the word "veto".

"The governor opposes illegal drug use and possession," said spokesman Rich Harris. "Whether it's a little or a lot, marijuana is an illegal drug."

As a cancer survivor, Rell took the poll for a bill that would have legalized the medical use of marijuana in June 2007. She added that by this performance, she determined her imaginative insight and commiseration to those who wanted to operate marijuana for pain management. Nevertheless, she is seriously concerned the problem when those looking for to obtain the drug would recourse to violate the law to purchase it.

The medical marijuana bill passed by 89 to 58 in the state House of Representatives and by 23 to 13 in the Senate, and both chambers fell shy in 2007 of the two-thirds margin needed to override a veto. The bill, released this year is expected to decrease the amercement for possession of less than one ounce of marijuana - from the recent misdemeanor to an infraction with a maximum fine of $121.

The committee's concurrent co-chairman, Rep. Michael P. Lawlor pointed that there is a "50 - 50" chance that a vote will be held this afternoon, the legislative department's adjudicatory commission was still in caucus at 12:30 p.m. Monday.

"I think the votes are definitely there," Lawlor said in a telephone interview. "I think even some of the Republicans will vote for it."