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A lot could be done by a POTUS with executive orders. POTUS could remove it from Schedule I and instruct the DOJ and US Attorneys to no longer prosecute marijuana cases. It would still technically be illegal but that law would no longer be enforced.
Oh sure. In fact, you don't even need to remove it from Schedule 1 to direct the DoJ to not prosecute small cases in states that had changed their laws. That's what the Obama administration did.
But that's not really the same as Congress changing the law. When the law remains as it is, when the administration changes, enforcement changes, and the feds can always ramp up enforcement, if they are so inclined.
Why are the red states staying silent on the marijuana issue? Too beholden to the private prison lobby?
Possibly.
But I think the real reason is that too many red state voters still think that marijuana is the devil's weed, and for them, the devil is a real personage, not a wry statement.
The Congressional Cannabis Caucus is bipartisan.
It's interesting that, other than the co-chairs, I can find no membership list. Makes me think that many of these folks don't want their support generally known.
Really? Our govt creates laws that benefit foreign criminal organizations...and that is not treasonous?
Its definitely aiding and abetting, and probably entering into a criminal conspiracy, among other high crimes.
Shrug. Treason, in my mind, is a word that is generally used to describe, for instance, the selling of state secrets or deliberately plotting to overthrow the government.
The US government has often enacted laws that have come back to bite us in the butt. Usually, at the behest of some business interest or other. I take an extremely dim view of this state of affairs, but using your definition, just about every single US company operating internationally would be guilty of treason. Good luck with that.
Shrug. Treason, in my mind, is a word that is generally used to describe, for instance, the selling of state secrets or deliberately plotting to overthrow the government.
The US government has often enacted laws that have come back to bite us in the butt. Usually, at the behest of some business interest or other. I take an extremely dim view of this state of affairs, but using your definition, just about every single US company operating internationally would be guilty of treason. Good luck with that.
Yeah, maybe treason is not most applicable here.
However since drug laws do exist, this makes the nation a very lucrative marketplace for the cartels to sell their drugs in...they also know they will have little to no competition, (considering what happened to the pharma companies that tried to encroach onto their turf with opioid painkillers!)...
Govt swooped in and shut them down quickly, they put the fear of God into doctors, hospitals, etc, generally making opioids difficult to obtain (while heroin is easily available and much cheaper).
No matter how you slice it, this is preferential treatment towards foreign criminal organizations, allowing them to operate within our borders and break our laws in the process.
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