To find great examples of hypocrisy, irony and paradox sometimes one has to go no further than our halls of government.

Here’s prime example: Medical marijuana is legal in Georgia, but it’s illegal to bring it into the state or to grow it and produce it in the state.

So one must assume then that it just has to materialize if it exists within the state’s boundaries. Sounds like something that you might see on a reality show. You know … haunted houses and other paranormal suggestions.

And it does seem to materialize for one Georgia lawmaker. Once a month, a cardboard box from Colorado appears at the office of a conservative Christian lawmaker in central Georgia, filled with derivatives of marijuana, to be distributed around the state in the shadows of the law.

Operating in ways he hopes will avoid felony charges of drug trafficking, state Rep. Allen Peake is taking matters into his own hands. He’s shepherding cannabis oil to hundreds of sick people who are now allowed by the state to possess marijuana, but have no legal way of obtaining it.

“We’re going to do whatever it takes to be able to help get product to these families, these citizens who have debilitating illnesses,” Peake said. He spoke with The Associated Press in his Macon office, where he runs his business, his campaign operation and his mystery medical marijuana network.

He said he doesn’t know how the product gets to him. Well that’s kind of hard to believe but so far he has not been arrested and apparently people who need this product are getting it, even if it does take some sleight of hand and dancing on the edges of the law.