The Sen­ate is await­ing a vote on a bill that would dou­ble penal­ties for any edi­ble prod­ucts com­bined with med­ical mar­i­juana in Cal­i­for­nia and other states that pro­vide relief for patients. S. 258, the Sav­ing Kids from Dan­ger­ous Drugs Act, was intro­duced by Sen. Diane Fein­stein and is using a media scare about “candy fla­vored metham­phet­a­mine” to attack med­ical mar­i­juana patients and providers.

Some med­ical mar­i­juana users are so sick that they are unable to smoke their med­i­cine and must eat it in baked goods or lozenges. They are already break­ing fed­eral law and risk­ing pros­e­cu­tion but if S. 258 passes, the penal­ties they face would double.

Read the rest: Stu­dents for Sen­si­ble Drug Pol­icy.