KW: (Stepping out on a limb) but it seems to me that here in New Zealand we have the same authoritarian paranoia about medical marijuana. How often do we see programs that show the positive effects for sufferers of extreme seizures and resulting pain but our laws remain in the past fearful century. Time for our government to get real.

Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner was appointed to the federal bench by Bill Clinton in 1994. She presided over trials for 17 years. And Sunday, she stood before a crowd at The Aspen Ideas Festival to denounce most punishments that she imposed. Among 500 sanctions that she handed down, “80 percent I believe were unfair…

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