Senate to Take Up Decriminalizing Marijuana—Because “Blacks are Disproportionately Charged and Sent to Prison.”
GRA: With that logic, murder, rape, and armed robbery will be decriminalized too--since blacks commit those crimes disproportionately too--compared to Whites. Don’t worry, Dems are probably working on that, too.
(usa today) Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., plans to introduce legislation that would decriminalize marijuana on a federal level.
The Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act, a draft bill by Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Schumer would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, allowing pot to be regulated and taxed.
Thirty-seven states have already decriminalized the substance, and 18 of those states have fully legalized it. Most Americans support the legalization of marijuana for both medical and recreational use.
Schumer’s push to decriminalize the substance on a federal level marks how far the conversation on criminal justice reform has come.
“This is monumental,” Schumer said Wednesday in a news conference announcing the legislation. “At long last, we are taking steps in the Senate to right the wrongs of the failed war on drugs.”
The legislation would not only decriminalize marijuana but also expunge nonviolent marijuana-related arrests and convictions from federal records.
It also would allocate new tax revenue, which would come from marijuana sales, to pay for restorative justice programs as ways to address the consequences the war on drugs had on communities, according to the draft bill.
[N.S.: There's no such thing as "restorative justice"; we owe you nothing!]
“By ending the failed federal prohibition of cannabis the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act will ensure that Americans especially black and brown Americans no longer have to fear arrest or be barred from public housing or federal financial aid for higher education for using cannabis in states where it’s legal,” a release accompanying the bill said.
--GRA
2 comments:
The "failure",as I see it,is backing off from the enforcement and punishment.To allow the country to become an approved druggie haven is another step into the de-evolutionary cycle we appear to be mired in.You don't improve your country by making it easier to commit crimes and no matter what anyone says,recreational drug use is not healthy for the human body.
--GRA
You can smoke the dope but cannot cross interstate lines with the dope. Of course everyone knows this is such a major issue. Schumuck Schumer wants his way.
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