Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Officially Scheduled For House Floor Vote

"The body will take up the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY). An earlier version of the measure cleared the chamber last session but later stalled in what was then the Republican-controlled Senate."
 
just more people begging to fork over money to the federal government to buy something the feds have no constitutional power to regulate in the first place
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Other than for a short period where Prohibition occurred, the US has always legalized alcohol even before the US was a nation.
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Same can be said of Marijuana.

"The first national regulation was the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Cannabis was officially outlawed for any use (medical included) with the passage of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Multiple efforts to reschedule cannabis under the CSA have failed, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v."
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Legal_history_of_canna.
 
SmarterthanYou said:
they do have authority over the commerce portion only........but the feds have ZERO constitutional authority to prohibit cultivation, possession, or use of items like Alcohol, Tobacco, marijuana, and firearms by individuals
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Write your Congressman.
 
Jack said:
Same can be said of Marijuana.

"The first national regulation was the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Cannabis was officially outlawed for any use (medical included) with the passage of the 1970 Controlled Substances Act (CSA). Multiple efforts to reschedule cannabis under the CSA have failed, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in United States v."
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Legal_history_of_canna.
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The difference is that like tobacco, marijuana is a carcinogen when smoked. It creates all the same combustion products even if they occur in slightly different amounts and the active 'ingredient' (nicotine v. THC) is different. As a smoked product, manufacturers would likely face the same sort of lawsuits and legal complications over time that tobacco products have suffered.
 
Long overdue. U.S. policy on marijuana still has one foot in the "reefer madness" door.

Time to move past the demonization of this substance. It's far less damaging in just about every way than alcohol, which has universal acceptance.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
The difference is that like tobacco, marijuana is a carcinogen when smoked. It creates all the same combustion products even if they occur in slightly different amounts and the active 'ingredient' (nicotine v. THC) is different. As a smoked product, manufacturers would likely face the same sort of lawsuits and legal complications over time that tobacco products have suffered.
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Nobody will force you to smoke it.
 
Demonization of pot is bad. Legalization could enable LEOs to pursue actual criminals more, open up some cottage industries, too.

Free up jail space for people that are actually criminals and not some dude that had a 1/2 oz on them.

Pot is less damaging than alcohol, IMO.
 
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