Posted on 03/28/2022 4:24:10 AM PDT by RandFan
The House is poised to pass legislation this week that would legalize marijuana, just the latest example of the swiftly changing attitudes on drug laws that marks a near reversal from the Reagan-era “war on drugs” that also reverberated through the 1990s.
The bill legalizing marijuana has near-uniform support among Democrats and a top ally in Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.), who has been aiming to introduce a similar measure this spring.
And it’s just one of several pieces of legislation that underlines the shift in Congress’s attitude — a change that has come about in part because of the way past drug laws have disproportionately hit minority communities.
At least 37 states, four territories and the District of Columbia allow cannabis products for medical use, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Cannabis is also allowed for nonmedical use in 18 states, two territories and the nation’s capital.
Schumer has also been soliciting input from colleagues ahead of introducing a marijuana legalization bill, which he previously said could come this spring.
Cannabis industry advocates, meanwhile, have been urging lawmakers to pass the SAFE Banking Act to allow marijuana businesses to use banking services, since it is more likely to secure bipartisan support.
The legislation set for a House vote, titled the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, would eliminate criminal penalties associated with marijuana.
It would further establish a process to expunge the convictions of nonviolent marijuana offenders and fund programs to help communities negatively impacted by the war on drugs by imposing a federal tax on marijuana sales.
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I’m so glad we have a government tackling the serious, pressing issues of the day.
Where would we be without them?
I’ve been expecting this for awhile. Not saying it’s a good idea or a bad idea, but it makes no sense for so many states to say it’s legal and yet have it remain a federal crime.
So how much fertilizer is going to be wasted growing dope when it is needed to grow food?
And we still don’t have a national standard for driving while impaired.
Lovely.
But...you can eat dope, don't you know. ;-]
(Excellent point, by the way.)
The grotesque stench produced from modern marijuana should be illegal as a public nuisance.
Great, now all the kids in public schools can be stoned while being told to switch genders.
Nothing but demonic wickedness comes out of the House nowadays.
marijuana is classified as a hypnotic drug for a good reason ...
Yup...My two irresponsible grandsons are now free to smoke their heads off.
The federal gov’t has no legal authority to regulate or ban marijuana.
Cocaine was legal at the founding of this nation. It should be decriminalized as well.
The FDA has failed to ensure drug safety (opioids) and medical product safety so many times that it is a multi-billion agency that is useless.
You hit the nail on the head.
Wait until they find they can lace it with fentynal (sp- I just woke up!) and then we’ll have a whole new drug/death issue. Oh, that’s what they want..
This is what happens when you vote democrat!!!
And get behind the wheel.
And even if you don’t.
Wonder if that means they’ll update form 4473 for purchasing a firearm?
They call it legalization when it isn’t, in fact, legalization. It’s just the federal govt getting into the drug-pushing racket. Legalization means legal to grow, buy, sell without any but the usual taxation if you’re trading in it.
Here in Colorado a whole lot of - let’s not call them dumb, but IDEALISTIC - idealistic folks went head-over-heels into the “legal weed” racket and lost their life’s savings. The govt does what it does: It encourages you to invest in something, then once you have, it jacks up the regulations, taxes, and fees making it impossible to keep the business going. (A lot of people took out business licenses to trade in weed because it made their off-the-books weed sales easier and more profitable.)
In Colorado’s case a lot of folks ran out and sank their $$$ into a legal weed business and then could not keep up with the increasing regulations and taxes and ended up in default with the State seizing all their facilities and equipment. There will be more illegal growing operations in the USA’s national parks - which are already rendered dangerous for recreation by pot-growers from Mexico. If you stumble upon a weed grow in the outback somewhere, you’re risking your life.
Drug cartels will become more visible and have more influence in the community. Opioid-related deaths will increase.
NOT legalization. Just more Democrat BS to strengthen their criminal/psycho/addict army.
You’re correct. It’s a lot more potent these days.
Keep them stoned is the order of the day. A high society is a democrat society. Funny how tobacco is bad and cannabis is good Beverly though it has been proven that cannabis is a carcinogen to the brain.
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