War on Drugs? What?
I'm not a drug user, at all, ever. I rarely even take prescription drugs after a doctor prescribes them to me. Its not that I don't think drugs can cure, or at least speed up recovery of, diseases, I just choose not risk the side effects that are possible with any drugs. Based on the same logic, I also don't drink and never have drunk alcohol, even through four years of college.

Despite my choice not to use drugs, I fully support their use and don't believe that the federal government should be in the business of determining which drug treatments are permitted, or not permitted. To the best of my knowledge, the only medical doctor in the House of Representatives is Dr. Ron Paul, an OBGYN, from Texas, so what gives the other 434 representatives the medical license required (by their own laws) to deny anyone access to any medicine or prescription drugs?

If your licensed, board certified physician, practicing "sound medicine", as approved by any of the well recognized associations of medical doctors, wants to write you a prescription for marijuana, then please, smoke as prescribed, your doctor certainly knows what is better for you than me, or anyone else in congress .Happen to suffer from sports injuries? If a licensed medical doctor, using sound medicine, as approved by some association of doctors, believes that steroids could cure your pain or allow you to recover from injuries faster, be my guest, BUT, don't go off trying to buy weed from the fella down the street, that's still illegal under my concept, just as you can't go buy amoxicillin from the guy down the street, that's still illegal as I believe that drugs should be prescribed by licensed doctors and dispensed by licensed pharmacists. The laws we have in place regarding the sale of drugs should be good enough, there is no reason for the federal government to spend our tax money deciding what drugs are acceptable, or unacceptable, based on their own opinions. Allow medical doctors to access all tools and options available to treat their patients. Did your doctor just prescribe crack cocaine for your chipped tooth? Maybe you need to seek a second opinion, and clearly your doctor isn't practicing sound medicine that any other doctor would approve of, but you as the consumer of health services have the option to listen to this doctor, or see another doctor, and since you obviously find this doctor's recommended treatment to be outside the scope of sound medicine, you'll hopefully report him or her to the state licensing agency, but the federal government doesn't need to be involved.

But what about drug traffic from (Mexico or Columbia or Pakistan or Afghanistan or etc)
Secure our borders. Read more when I add a secure borders section, but clearly, if we had secure borders to the north and south along with secure shipping ports and secure airports, the illegal drugs wouldn't be making their way into the country to begin with.

What about farmers in the US growing Hemp?
Industrial Hemp IS NOT A DRUG, and yet it suffers from it's misclassification as a drug in the Controlled Substances Act. According to the VoteHemp campaign, "Hemp is an agricultural, economic development, and environmental issue" and I agree. I eat cereal that contains hemp seeds for breakfast every morning. The cereal tastes good and is highly nutritious. Hemp seeds are safe, but US farmers "aren't allowed" to grow hemp because of it's wrongful classification. So not only does our "war on drugs" policy effect you, the consumer of health services, but it also effects the farmers who might grow the natural ingredients in drugs. Industrial hemp is not marijuana, and our farmers are regulated by the power of our tax dollars, then subsidized by our tax dollars because they can't profit from the crops they can grow, so again, you as the tax payer pay for both sides, in addition to pay for "the war on drugs". Of course, if you value foods that are USDA approved, then I'm not sure that the hemp seeds in food you can buy are USDA approved as they have to be grown in another country and imported here to the US. Learn more about hemp at Vote Hemp.

Our current career politician Frank Pallone is on the House Energy and Commerce committee and he can vote to pass HR 1009, however, because he is a career politician who has wasted your tax money for 20 years, and will continue to waste your tax money prohibitting farmers from working freely, and then subsidizing their losses with your tax money, he is likely to vote against this bill, and he is likely to then vote to give your tax money to the same farmers who he regulates, as if he is a farmer, or a medical doctor who understands the difference between hemp and marijuana. Frank Pallone is wrong on the war on drugs, wrong about Industrial Hemp, and wrong to misuse our tax money to regulate private industry such as farming.