In one of the most unpredictable debates in the Legislature this session, or in years, the House approved on an 81-36 vote a tightly regulated system for legalizing medical marijuana for treatment of seizure disorders or epilepsy.
Medical marijuana? In Kansas?
Yes, and there were heart-rending speeches from lawmakers who actually saw babies—babies—who had more than 100 seizure attacks in a day, their little bodies shaking uncontrollably, while their parents held them closely, wondering whether their children would die.
Can you imagine that being your child or grandchild or a neighbor’s child? If the cure was panda meat or Lesser Prairie Chicken wings, there would be no reluctance to legalize whatever you had to do to save that child the pain.
But marijuana?