Monday, April 8, 2013

le dernier jour

The Senate gave approval to the Medical Marijuana bill-- you know, the one that lets Hopkins set up its own pot clinic in 2016 but has such strict strictures it'll help about 20 patients? In the meantime it looks like the decriminialization bill will waste away in Vallario's committee. How... ironic that he says the bill is a "bad message to kids," while at the same time his son has a flourishing practice as a defense attorney defending people arrested on drug charges. Also "ironic"-- his biggest campaign contributors include Lexington National Insurance Company (as in bail bonds), criminal defense firms and a MD gun-rights group.

Why do denizens of the UK have such huge boners for "the Wire"? Dunno, but David Simon was interviewed by the Guardian recently.



3 comments:

Andrew B Saller said...

Not that I disagree, but that is his son's firm in the link.

Maurice Bradbury said...

Thank you! Actually it looks like Jr.'s license to practice law is suspended.

Andrew B Saller said...

His D.C. license very well may be. His MD license looks good though:

http://www.courts.state.md.us/cgi-bin/cstf.pl?inputname=vallario&firstname=&submit=Submit+the+query