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Chuck Schumer introduces bill to decriminalize marijuana
Washington Examiner ^ | April 20, 2018 | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 04/20/2018 9:12:02 AM PDT by NobleFree

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer introduced legislation Friday that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and establish “dedicated funding streams” for women and minority businesses to grow and distribute the drug.

“The time has come to decriminalize marijuana,” Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. “My thinking, as well as the general population’s views on the issue has evolved, and so I believe there’s no better time than the present to get this done. It’s simply the right thing to do.”

Schumer’s legislation would maintain laws that prevent trafficking of marijuana across state lines in cases where the drug is legal in one state but not in a neighboring state.

How Your Small Business Can Take Advantage of Instagram Watch Full Screen to Skip Ads It would also call for dedicated funding for “highway safety research,” to “assess the pitfalls of driving under the influence of THC,” and to develop impairment testing for drugged drivers.

The bill would also call for funding research into the health effects of using marijuana as well as whether it is effective for treating medical ailments.

Schumer’s endorsement of marijuana follows Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s decision to bring up legislation that would legalize hemp, which is grown for industrial use and does not contain THC.

McConnell, R-Ky., plans a vote on the measure in the coming weeks.

Kentucky is one of the country’s top producers of hemp.

Also on Friday, D.C.’s nonvoting delegate, Democrat Eleanor Holmes Norton, said she will introduced a bill and file an amendment to the House fiscal year 2019 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill that would legalize use of medical marijuana in public housing, as long as medical marijuana is legal in the state. The bill would permit the use of medical marijuana in federally-assisted housing, including public housing and the Section 8 housing program.

Norton plans to speak at the third annual National Cannabis Festival in Washington on Saturday.

Norton pointed to polls showing 90 percent support for legalizing medical marijuana.

“Individuals living in federally funded public housing who are prescribed legal, medical marijuana should not fear eviction for simply treating their medical conditions,” Norton said. “Our legislation should attract bipartisan support because it also protects states’ rights.”


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 420; cannabis; godsplant; marijuana; medicine; miracleplant; pot; potheads; wod
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To: NobleFree

We don’t want our kids and grandkids on drugs.


61 posted on 04/20/2018 9:45:12 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: NobleFree
I don't accept any of those claims; where's the evidence?

The evidence is in the car insurance premiums ... step daughter moved to Aurora last year from southern Maryland ... her insurance is 3-4x what it is in Maryland.

62 posted on 04/20/2018 9:45:17 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: fwdude

burglary, robbery, rape are crimes against other people.

a person using marijuana is no different than a person drinking alcohol.

the war on drugs, though, has resulted in laws that have criminalized legal behavior under the guise of “protecting” me from those horrible drug dealers.

For instance, the farmer going to buy a tractor, carrying cash for the purchase, is pulled over and the cash is seized because why would he be carrying that much cash. And, how many years does the farmer have to spend proving his innocence in a country where you supposed to be “innocent until PROVEN guilty”. If he can prevail at all.

Or the restaurant owner depositing their daily receipts but they are always under $10k. Must be a money launderer. Seize their business, send them to prison.

Repeal legal alcohol. No other drug has done more damage to humanity than alcohol.


63 posted on 04/20/2018 9:46:56 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: NobleFree
Or so you now claim.

You've forgotten already? Perhaps something, some substance in your environment, is interfering with your ability to form memories?

64 posted on 04/20/2018 9:47:43 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Angels27
Great! Lets turn the whole nation into streets filled with lazy, stoned out teens and millennials begging for money for their weed habit. It’s working so well here in California and in Colorado.

Then again ... they would be too lazy to go and vote lol ...

65 posted on 04/20/2018 9:48:14 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: MarvinStinson
You NAILED him there.

:)

66 posted on 04/20/2018 9:48:40 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: NobleFree
Obvious nonsense - criminalizing across the board is self-evidently more restrictive than criminalizing under certain circumstances.

Talk about obvious nonsense. The very criminalizing under certain circumstances is what I'm talking about. Those numerous certain circumstances will have to be defined, in excruciating detail, monitored, enforced, funded, and prosecuted when violated - all by force of LAWS.

It gives Big State growing hormones.

67 posted on 04/20/2018 9:48:52 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: NobleFree

Chuckie probably already smokes lots of weed.


68 posted on 04/20/2018 9:50:10 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: NobleFree

Introduced it on 4/20.


69 posted on 04/20/2018 9:51:03 AM PDT by pfflier
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To: ican'tbelieveit
a person using marijuana is no different than a person drinking alcohol.

Drinking alcohol doesn't happen in absolute isolation. People have to drink in the real world - somewhere, something, with some need of responsibility. Haven't you ever heard of public intoxication laws? Do you think these are unreasonable?

70 posted on 04/20/2018 9:52:39 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: NobleFree

LMAO the Rat party platform is shaping up: legalize marijuana, reparations for blacks, raise taxes, open borders, free healthcare for illegals, etc

May they all remain in their Rat Tard bubble.


71 posted on 04/20/2018 9:53:43 AM PDT by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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To: pfflier

I honestly don’t get the “420” reference. What is it?


72 posted on 04/20/2018 9:53:56 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: fwdude

Look at the Alaska pot law. Of course it will. You can grow your own plants and smoke in your own residence. Why pay for what you can grow for free. That would be stupid. Pot is a ‘weed’ and can grow anywhere, really. Besides, where would the massive illegal market be if you could grow pot legally and buy it legally.


73 posted on 04/20/2018 9:54:23 AM PDT by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: fwdude
I honestly don’t get the “420” reference.

Consider yourself lucky.

74 posted on 04/20/2018 9:55:42 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NobleFree

The fact that Schumer, a radical leftist, would be proposing this ought to make conservatives at least THINK about accepting it out of hand.


75 posted on 04/20/2018 9:56:36 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: dartuser

The evidence for your daughter’s insurance premiums are not due to legal marijuana. Colorado has had a massive population influx as well as several massive natural disasters that have driven up our insurance rates. Last here there was a hail storm that ran over 1 billion in damages for insurance companies.

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/05/23/hail-storm-may-8-insurance/

Also, my son wants to point out that you coasters keep moving to CO and ruining this beautiful state by dragging in your flipping irresponsible, liberal policies.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/colorado-s-teen-marijuana-usage-dips-after-legalization/

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/marijuana/marijuana-use-among-colorado-teens-declines-again-government-report-shows


76 posted on 04/20/2018 9:58:09 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Williams

Shumer is just looking for another revenue source.


77 posted on 04/20/2018 9:59:00 AM PDT by longfellowsmuse (last of the living nomads)
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To: NobleFree

Shooming the Shoomer ...


78 posted on 04/20/2018 10:00:01 AM PDT by VRWC For Truth
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To: Lagmeister

Alaska is admittedly a very unusual example, being remote, sparsely populated and independently minded. Most people there (but not all) have the ability to grow their own. But do you honestly believe that pot is only grown there for personal consumption? Please.


79 posted on 04/20/2018 10:01:13 AM PDT by fwdude (History has no 'sides;' you're thinking of geometry.)
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To: fwdude
WHAT? Did you really just post that?

Drinking alcohol doesn't happen in absolute isolation

Public intoxication laws. Yeah, that stopped someone from drinking in public. Being intoxicated in public.

But better, I love the uniformed making self-embarassing comments on the internet for all to see.

I see you have no problem with the government, in the guise of protecting you, erode your civil liberties.

80 posted on 04/20/2018 10:04:33 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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