Stay high and not worry about what they are doing. A free joint and bag of chips of your choice for votes.
And they may have well, states are doing it anyways. And it has medical benefits.
This is a Nothing Burger. It’s not going to change or “buy” a single vote.
...remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and begin regulating and taxing it
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10% for the Big Guy
Cannabis is less harmful than tobacco and alcohol, two drugs that are already legal. The War on Drugs was a failure and it needs to end.
“...and would earmark new tax revenue for”
...Democratic Party front groups and to buy votes.
UCMJ needs to be amended as well. Can’t discipline servicemembers for a substance that’s legal.
i’m surprised he didn’t say that it was the biggest threat to our ‘democracy’ since the civil war, like dear leader says about everything...
“Mr. Schumer has also made no secret that he believes Democrats stand to benefit politically from embracing the legalization push, particularly with young voters.”
Maybe it is just posturing/pandering, that has little chance of passing. Maybe it will drum up some campaign contributions for him from the industry.
I think if they want to do this at the Federal level, there are a couple of Treaties that would have to be abrogated or modified.
“regulating and taxing”
to make sure his friends in the drug cartels still have room to make a few bucks.
If the Middle East can export their opium, South America their cocaine, and China their fentanyl, why not get the U.S. and Canada in the game of damaging people?
China will not legalize it, because they are all about making their nation stronger, and this won’t do it. It will make a number of people much less motivated and satisfied with less. Stoners eating Cheetos and playing video games is a cliche for a good reason.
But China doesn’t promote people based on silly notions of identity politics, either, and they don’t get worked up about plastic straws and bags.
They are focused on strength, growth, and power, and that’s why they will surpass us. It’s really quite Nationalist of them.
It will take a strong Nationalist / Populist position on our part to compete, and we are heading in the wrong direction.
When China feels like they can get away with it, they will let every American know just who is in control.
They do not believe in God and they think of us as an inferior species, and they will treat all of us, and their own people, like livestock.
“”It calls for immediately expunging nonviolent marijuana-related arrests and convictions from federal records “”
There’s a lot of Vietnam Vet’s got bad paper due to Marijuana, will they be expunging that also? Update they’re DD-214’s? They served, they fought, they bled and they got bad discharges simply for possession of pot.
And reparations for those who were prosecuted??
The Federal government has lost billions from attacking tobacco.
So they need a new revenue stream.
Many states are already ignoring federal marijuana laws, yet they say states cannot ignore federal gun grabbing laws.
At some point “they” probably will.
In which case they should still require employees to be drug tested. For the safety of other non-drug user who do not want to work,especially in life threatening situations, with some idiot who is on crack or the like.
Drug Cartels.
It’s a gateway drug.
People who are stoned typically cannot think clearly. People who cannot think clearly are easier to control than people who can. No wonder Democrats are eager to legalize weed everywhere.