GOP Reps. Pitch Bill To Federally Decriminalize Cannabis

Law360 ^ | May 12, 2021 | Sam Reisman

[bigbob]

Federalism - should never have federal laws in the first place.

[only1percent]

States in general can’t regulate how you buy goods from a seller in another state. However federal law permits states to regulate and prohibit buying alcohol from sellers in a different state.

[usconservative]

This would be a nice step in the right direction...

I'm not a marijuana consumer and not likely to ever become one.

Having said that, I'm curious to know if this legislation is going to be a stepping stone to gun control/gun confiscation from those who consume marijuana?

Those of us who live in states like Hellinois for example and have medical marijuana cards (I do not ...) cannot legally purchase guns or ammo in this state already. In fact, applications for FOID cards and Conceal/Carry permits in this state have specific questions on them pertaining to drug use (marijuana) and psychological care which are used to deny marijuana users or those who seek psychiatric treatment ineligible for them.

Lying on these forms is considered a perjury and subject to prosecution and the State of Illinois for example has the capability to cross-check medical marijuana users against FOID/Conceal Carry permit requests to disqualify them and identify cases for perjury.

So will any Federal regulation remediate these issues or just complicate them more and disqualify more and more people from exercising their Second Amendment rights?

[MRadtke]

I don't think the feds mandate a 21 year old drinking age per se. What they did was threaten to withhold highway funding to states that did not comply with the 21 age requirement. Pretty dirty, since that money comes from the states in the first place.

[Codeflier]

I don’t disagree. I am just trying to figure out why we allow alcohol traditionally, but not other chemicals. All I can think of is because alcohol is allowed in the bible. What is your theory?

[BipolarBob]

Does the bill include a federal tax? That would be appropriate, as well as a federal license to sell and a required ID card to purchase.

So you want a BIGGER government with another layer of Fed bureaucracy who really serve no useful purpose? Why not just let the states handle this?

[NobleFree]

applications for FOID cards and Conceal/Carry permits in this state have specific questions on them pertaining to drug use (marijuana) and psychological care which are used to deny marijuana users

Unless they deny ONLY users of LEGAL marijuana, users will be no more 2A-restricted under federal noncriminalization than they are today.

[John S Mosby]

Seven Days in May. And, you are correct- maintaining the stoner industry is not a priority- unless the country wishes to continue keeping everyone on a “covid” marijuana stipend support payment bill for another 2 or 4 trillion printed from the Fed Reserve (which we can never pay back, not even with illegal dope money, or legitimized). A nation of non-working, stoners.) More lunacy from the “bought” repubs. Those illegals have to have skill sets for this new “industry”— so, let em in.

[John S Mosby]

John Boehner’s handiwork as chief lobbyist for Cannabis Inc., his daughter’s Jamaican posse husband (importer) and in between drunken morning ramblings, chain smoking cigarettes and playing golf (and of course trashing Trump).

[Az Joe]

It was ok to drink alcohol that you made privately. You couldn’t manufacture, transport or sell it during prohibition.

[NobleFree]

I am just trying to figure out why we allow alcohol traditionally, but not other chemicals. All I can think of is because alcohol is allowed in the bible. What is your theory?

The bluenonses whose alcohol ban ultimately failed disagreed that alcohol is allowed in the Bible (as many still do to this day). I think the main cause of the difference is that bluenoses tackled a more popular inebriant, and did so at a time when Americans were more jealous of their liberties and had more common sense to observe and learn from the practical failings of Prohibition.

[NobleFree]

drunken morning ramblings, chain smoking cigarettes

What action do you support against those drugs?

[RaceBannon]

I never donated that much but they’re never going to get a penny from me ever again

[NobleFree]

So you're against federal adherence to the Constitution?

[Ancesthntr]

“Funny — a lot of the dems are more drug warriors than the GOP is today.”

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Because Dems are, at heart, dictators. The drug war is just another excuse/justification for enslaving us more and more over time. You cannot even deposit more than $10,000 in legally-acquired and non-drug related cash into your account without filing a report with the IRS...because of the War on (Some) Drugs.

Oh, and before anyone flings any accusations, I don’t do drugs, never have. This is about the role of government in our society, nothing more and nothing less.

[38special]

This would go a long way in ending illegal searches of motorists in small towns.

[Reno89519]

Pot should not be legalized and, yes, we should roll back the state-level laws that have legalized it.

[TheStickman]

IMHO it’s always been a issue for the states to decide. I 100% support ending the federal prohibition of cannabis!

[TheStickman]

Thanks for the ping!

Hope all is good with ya :)

[John S Mosby]

Boehner, FRiend— Boehner. A completely useless crying twit from Gingrich’s coat tails— who is now hand in hand with his biotch controller Nanzi Pelosi (nee D’Alessandro, of Baltimore). These people are all... all of them, the new Mob- the sanitized “liberated” and buried in facade— Mob.

It was better when the lines were clearly drawn- the days of Santo Traficante vs... the effin bee eye. This is not a Libertarian argument, but a clinical research and public health one. Everyone seems to be seeking a rationalization new low in the qualities that make an American Citizen.