[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 131 (Friday, September 26, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H8023]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      NO FEDERAL FUNDING OF STUDIES OF USE OF MIND-ALTERING DRUGS

  (Mr. BARR of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, we just adopted an amendment to the 
appropriations bill currently before this body that would prohibit, at 
least for those agencies and departments of this Government covered by 
that bill, H.R. 2267, that none of them can use any funds so 
appropriated for the study of legalization or so-called medicinal use 
of marijuana or other schedule I controlled substances.
  Mr. Speaker, I wish it were not necessary to offer such amendments, 
but it is. The fact of the matter is that even though our Office of 
National Drug Control Policy asserts under oath and in writing that it 
is neither the intent nor the purpose of this administration to expend 
taxpayer moneys for such purposes, such as the medicinal use of 
marijuana or other drugs or the legalization thereof, they are in fact 
doing so.
  Therefore, these amendments become necessary to stop this 
administration from talking out of both sides of its mouth on drug 
policy. This amendment and others I intend to offer on spending bills 
will send a very clear message to the taxpayers of this country that 
they are not going to have to continue to fund the study of 
legalization of mind-altering drugs.

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