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.”
ALL or none.
I don’t recall seeing anything in the US Constitution in regards to the DEA or FDA.
If the states want to do it, that’s their business, as long as it doesn’t violate the interstate commerce clause.
It’s all or none, unless that is, you have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo?
You need a prescription to purchase antibiotics, yet you can go down the road and buy enough booze or pot to fry every brain cell in your head.
Pot promoter Noble Free can’t take the heat.
Well before any state had legalized marijuana, kids reported they could get it more easily than beer or cigarettes - which stands to reason, since dealers in legal drugs usually card for age while dealers in illegal drugs never do.
>>>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.
Colrado’s unemployment rate in February remained unchanged at 3.0 percent. That’s lower than the national unemployment rate of 4.1 percent.
And all the more so for an across-the-board criminalization.
ALL or none.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
Noble Free and his fellow pot pushers think they are experts on the “Constitution.”
I notice you didn't answer the question. I'll bet I'm not the only one who noticed that.
I notice you promote marrijuana.
Your post is a cowardly evasion and a lie.
Noble Free can’t take the heat.
Another cowardly evasion from Marvin. What a surprise.
“The fact that Schumer, a radical leftist, would be proposing this ought to make conservatives at least THINK about accepting it out of hand.”
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How is this different from what Trump laid out =>
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“Trump tells senator there will be no marijuana crackdown”
President Trump called Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner this week to tell him there will be no crackdown on states that legalized marijuana for recreational use.
Trump also said he will support legislation to allow state autonomy under federal law, which currently makes pot possession for any reason outside limited research a crime.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3647323/posts
You mean the nonsense I shot down here - to which you could reply only “I disagree”? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3600988/replies?c=87
I'm all for them - and they should apply to both marijauna and alcohol, as the use of either in private should be legal.
“There is nothing left for them other than the pot card.”
Trump yanked the issue right out from under their feet. See post #89.
Demonuts can’t get votes ,they’ll buy em ,LOL
Pot promoter Noble Free is not only a Constitutional scholar,
but he also a practitioner of Soros “logic.”
I could care less about the pot issue. As far as I’m concerned it is a states rights issue. Legalize It, tax it, and remove the profits for the criminal element.
It is also the anniversary of Hitler's birthday, the Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine and the day Jimmy Carter was attacked by a rabbit.
Because if they don't the newly-legal business will be dominated by those evil competent white men.
I’ve been saying for a while now that White Privilege = White Competancy.
https://fredoneverything.org/are-white-men-gods-ii-getting-the-facts-straight/
No....this is for the young people vote. It’s sure not for the good of the country.
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