New House Bill would make it illegal for an American to plan to use drugs in another country, even i

[Rick Ross]

Lol like this will actually pass.

[SPESSMEHREN]

So since no one in this thread probably knows what the bill is or what it does outside of what the sensationalist headline read, I tracked it down.

The bill is called the [url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:1:./temp/~bdsgLA::|/bss/|]Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011[/url], and it was introduced in January (delay much?). The same bill [url=http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:H.R.5231:]was pigonholed in committee during the last session of Congress. [/url] It was probably pigionholed again and someone fought to get a Congressional committee to actually look at it.

Ironically enough, for those who think that only a Republican could have such an absurd idea, the bill has one co-sponsor, [b]Democratic[/b] Congressman Adam B. Schiff of California.

Here's literally the only mention in the mainstream media I could find on it: [url]http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=52700[/url]. There was no mention of the bill in the news in 2010 either (except for [url=http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS441US441&gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=H.R.5231#q=%22H.R.+5231%22&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS441US441&prmdo=1&tbm=dsc&prmd=imvns&ei=BPGQTvm6OaHi0QHi4ogh&start=10&sa=N&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=55ec5d59dd72fa0b&biw=1475&bih=819]drug discussion forums and 2 or 3 advocacy groups[/url]), which leads me to believe this is being blown totally out of proportion.

If the bill gets out of committee, then it's time to worry.

[Amez]

This won't get out of committee or pass, we at least have some educated people in our Congress.