By Adam Sharp Not all heroes wear capes.
Some of them wear suits… and speak at public hearings.
Like former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts). Frank served in Congress from 1981 through 2013. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980 before that. And he has been a champion for marijuana reform throughout his career.
In 1972, Frank introduced legislation that would have decriminalized cannabis and established a noncommercial legalization model in Massachusetts. In the 1980s, he co-sponsored a federal medical cannabis legalization bill. And he introduced similar legislation himself in 1995.
Frank now works in the cannabis industry. And this past …read more
