GOP Sen. James Lankford pokes fun at Oklahoma’s marijuana law during abortion debate
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While an increasing number of polls shows more Republicans supporting marijuana legalization, some GOP lawmakers not only oppose cannabis reform, they scoff at it.
Last week, Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford said the state’s medical marijuana makes it too easy to use cannabis “no matter what” the patient’s medical condition, Marijuana Moment reported.
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“We are a state that has medical marijuana laws,” the senator said last week in his Senate speech on abortion rights, which he opposes. “You have to have a prescription from a doctor to get it. So you know how to get it? The medical marijuana place actually has a doctor that you can just call who will write you a script that will write it for whatever.
They could say, ‘My left toe hurts every other Thursday,'” he added, “and they’d say, ‘Great, that’s a disease.'”
Lankford stressed that like marijuana, if the Democrat-led Women’s Health Protection Act becomes law, it would be too easy to get an abortion.
He strongly opposed a provision in the abortion rights bill that was blocked Thursday by a 49-51 vote by Senate Republicans and Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
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This was the second time in 2022 that the upper chamber voted on the issue, but without advancing the bill. The measure aimed to ensure access to abortion nationwide.
Lankford also noted that the decision under the bill would be left to the discretion of health care providers performing abortions and would allow them to justify abortions at any point in a pregnancy.
“We get the joke. If the person actually selling the product is the one actually prescribing it, that means you can do it anytime,” he said. “So this bill is not about protecting children from viability. This bill is about abortion at every stage of pregnancy.”
This article originally appeared on Benzinga and has been republished with permission.
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