(Ezekiel Loseke, Headline USA) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., introduced a bill on Thursday that would eliminate the federal ban on marijuana.
The bill is sponsored by Schumer and titled the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, as reported by Politico.
The bill seems to copy the structure of abortion law after the Dobbs case. It would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, but each state would be able to craft its own marijuana policy.
The proposed legislation has a long history for Democrat lawmakers. Schumer, along with Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J.; and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., proposed the bill to the Senate to start a discussion last year.
Politico reported that the bill would do more than legalize dope. It would also:
- Expunge criminal records of marijuana-related offenses
- Create funding to help the police combat illegal marijuana growth and distribution
- Create grants for “small businesses” seeking to get into the marijuana trade. These grants are reserved for those “who are from communities disproportionately hurt by past drug laws”
- Require the Department of Transportation to create marijuana D.U.I. standards for the nation
- Prevent companies from advertising to minors
Schumer’s embrace of pot-peddling is just one example of the marijuana obsession associated with contemporary American politics.
Several blue states have sought to cancel the word “marijuana” because it is apparently, “pejorative and racist.”
Indeed, Washington‘s far-left Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill striking the word “marijuana” from all Washington laws this year.
California‘s tolerant “regulation” of marijuana has created a confusing legal standard. An anonymous pot dealer told the AP, “We basically subsidize our white market with our black market” because of high taxes and low prices brought on by an unpoliced black market.
Sorth Dakota police had to sue—and fight all the way to the state supreme court—to prevent an unconstitutional constitutional amendment that would have legalized marijuana.
American politics have gone to pot.
