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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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1 posted on 04/20/2018 9:12:02 AM PDT by NobleFree
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To: NobleFree

Anything to create a controversy while Republicans are in the majority.


2 posted on 04/20/2018 9:14:24 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Conservatives seek the truth. Democrats seek the power to dictate what truth is.)
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To: NobleFree
Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement. “My thinking, as well as the general population’s views on the issue has evolved">

He has some seriously wrong thinking there.

3 posted on 04/20/2018 9:15:17 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: All

Magoo is seething.


4 posted on 04/20/2018 9:15:46 AM PDT by JonPreston (I post To: "All" because article posters rarely contribute to their own threads)
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To: NobleFree

Schroomer?

Who could have seen this coming?


5 posted on 04/20/2018 9:15:55 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: NobleFree

The problem is more and more people have tried it and are now aware that it is NOT the dangerous addictive evil gateway drug the govt said it is.


6 posted on 04/20/2018 9:16:21 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing")
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To: NobleFree

Another dummocrap effort to destroy any intellectual discernment capacity in voters. Drug ‘em, then they’ll swallow dummocrap nonsense without any resistance.


7 posted on 04/20/2018 9:16:27 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: NobleFree

Ok by me. Reefer Madness is idiotic.


8 posted on 04/20/2018 9:16:27 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Trump has implemented Supply Side Economics!!!)
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To: NobleFree

Stopped clock, blind squirrel.


9 posted on 04/20/2018 9:16:42 AM PDT by bassmaner (Hey commies: I am a' white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
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To: NobleFree

Makes sense; only a dope would vote for a democrat.


10 posted on 04/20/2018 9:16:45 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: bgill
He has some seriously wrong thinking there.

How so? Where in the Constitution is the federal government granted authority over the intrastate growing, selling, or using of marijuana?

11 posted on 04/20/2018 9:17:19 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
Leftist base signaling.

Stoner virtue signaling.

Smoke signaling.

12 posted on 04/20/2018 9:17:23 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
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To: NobleFree

Pothead Nation.


13 posted on 04/20/2018 9:18:07 AM PDT by MarvinStinson (<B>)
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To: NobleFree

The democrats are really evil and will turn us into a cesspool.


14 posted on 04/20/2018 9:18:24 AM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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To: EinNYC
Another dummocrap effort to destroy any intellectual discernment capacity in voters.

Like the relegalization of alcohol that ended Prohibition?

15 posted on 04/20/2018 9:18:30 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
Why in the world would “dedicated funding streams” for women and minority businesses to grow and distribute the drug be something the FedGov would need to provide?
16 posted on 04/20/2018 9:18:49 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: NobleFree

Feds go legal it’s over

I doubt they will


17 posted on 04/20/2018 9:18:53 AM PDT by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: NobleFree

I agree with him.

There is no reason for a person who smokes weed to face legal jeopardy.

There is just no reason for that.


18 posted on 04/20/2018 9:19:02 AM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: MarvinStinson
Pothead Nation.

Has legal alcohol made us a boozer nation? If not, why would legal pot make us a pothead nation?

19 posted on 04/20/2018 9:19:46 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: FreedomPoster
Why in the world would “dedicated funding streams” for women and minority businesses to grow and distribute the drug be something the FedGov would need to provide?

It's not (but you knew that); I hope the GOP proposes an amendment to strip this provision.

20 posted on 04/20/2018 9:22:03 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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