House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (who says she “only reads bills after the pass) tried to slip in money for abortion in the recent stimulus relief bill.

That didn’t work because word got out.

Planned Parenthood incredibly asked for donations of masks and personal protection equipment during the coronavirus pandemic so they could “safely” kill unborn babies.

That didn’t work because word got out.

Now, the marijuana industry wants to get federal bailout money during the pandemic.

Word needs to get out.

Under federal law, marijuana possession is illegal. (Apparently the liberal Oklahoma Supreme Court follows federal law when it comes to legalized abortion but not with possession of marijuana).

Yet 30 lawmakers – Democrats and Republicans – locked arms with U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon, and Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colorado, to push House leadership into making the illegal marijuana industry eligible for all the coronavirus relief programs.

And get this. The proposals would apply not only to medicinal marijuana dispensaries but to recreational marijuana.

In some states, marijuana is considered an “essential business.” In Oklahoma, it seems as if there are dispensaries on every corner.

And if money were to go to marijuana companies, that would deny funding to other legitimate small businesses who would otherwise go out of business.

Marijuana is big business. It damages the health of those who use it on a recreational basis. In Oklahoma, medicinal marijuana is virtually the same as recreational marijuana.

Coronavirus relief funding is meant to help businesses – particularly small business – through a time when they were forced to close by the government.

That relief money should not benefit recreational pot.