Posted on 04/20/2018 10:28:18 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Politics isn't always red or blue. Lately, it has been green.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., plans to introduce legislation on Friday to decriminalize marijuana on the federal level, adding a high-profile advocate in the effort to decriminalize, legalize and normalize marijuana use in America.
Schumer's legislation would remove marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under a 1970 law that classifies marijuana as dangerous as heroin for legal and regulatory purposes. It would establish funding for women- and minority-owned marijuana businesses, require more research on the drug's public health impact, and maintain federal authority to regulate commercial advertising, similar to existing regulations for tobacco and alcohol.
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“misread it i guess- the article title and excerpt make it appear he wants to make it legal federally”
He does want to make it legal federally. I think you are not clear on the meaning of that term.
It simply means that intrastate mj commerce would no longer be the business of the federal government. It is no more complicated than that.
SINGER. He was performing with a broken hip, instead of putting off tour to get it surgically repaired, he just took pain pills in a combo that was a guaranteed OD. Several different drugs in system including illegal ones.
prince https://www.thedailybeast.com/fake-pain-pills-killed-prince-and-thousands-more-americans
OPPS wrong first name, Tom Petty https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2018/01/19/tom-petty-died-accidental-drug-overdose-coroner-says/1050228001/
“Tom Petty”
You know more about that than I do. I had heard he was dead, but didn’t know about the hip.
Nope.
"Schumer's legislation would remove marijuana from the list of scheduled substances under a 1970 [federal] law that classifies marijuana as dangerous as heroin for legal and regulatory purposes."
The feds have no law regarding the speed limit on my street, but my city government has nonetheless set it at 25 mph.
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