Longview should fire their State Representative, David Simpson. Not only did he effectively kill a bill designed to protect our youth, but he did so with the nuttiest argument possible. From the Statesman:
Simpson, a Longview Republican with a penchant for surprising his colleagues, today effectively killed a bill to ban salvia (or to the botanist: Salvia divinorum). The legal plant and its extract — which can have the effect of marijuana or LSD when smoked or ingested — burst into mainstream conversations last winter when Cyrus appeared to be smoking the leafy green stuff in a YouTube video.
But Simpson didn’t make his move for the Hannah Montana star, nor did he do it because of a taste for salvia. (He said he doesn’t approve of mind-altering substances.)
Instead, Simpson, a Reformed Baptist, said it wouldn’t be right to make it illegal to be “possessing a plant that God made,” particularly if it is sometimes used for religious purposes.
“I don’t want somebody curbing my religious freedom because it sounds weird,” he said. “I don’t want my religious freedom inhibited.”
Geez Louise.
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