-Cannabis would be federally descheduled and treated in a manner similar to alcohol.
-A 3.75 percent excise tax would be imposed on cannabis sales. Revenue would support grant programs for community reentry, law enforcement and Small Business Administration (SBA) aid for newly licensed businesses.
-The Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) would be the chief regulator for marijuana with respect to interstate commerce.
-The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would be limited in its regulatory authority, with the intent being that it would have no more control over cannabis than it does for alcohol except when it comes to medical cannabis. The agency could prescribe serving sizes, certify designated state medical cannabis products and approve and regulate pharmaceuticals derived from marijuana, but could not ban the use of cannabis or its derivates in non-drug applications, like in designated state medical cannabis products, dietary supplements, foods, beverages, non-drug topicals or cosmetics.
-Raw cannabis would be considered an agricultural commodity regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
-The legislation would grandfather existing state-licensed cannabis operators into the federal scheme to ensure continued patient access and incentivize participation in the legal market.
-As federal agencies work to promulgate rules, there would be safe harbor provisions to protect patients and marijuana businesses acting in compliance with existing state laws.
-People with certain federal cannabis convictions that were non-violent would be eligible for expungements.
-To prevent youth use, there would be a mandatory 21 age limit for recreational cannabis, and the bill also prescribes certain restrictions on things like advertising.
-SBA would need to treat marijuana businesses the same as other regulated markets, like it does for alcohol companies, for example.
-The measure also stipulates that veterans can’t face discrimination in federal hiring due to cannabis use, and doctors with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) would be specifically authorized to issue recommendations for medical cannabis for veterans.
-Federal agencies could continue to drug test for marijuana.
-The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) would be required to issue a report to Congress on the marijuana industry.
Regardless how you feel, nobody needs to be afraid of being out in jail for smoking a fucking plant. This is long overdue. Only by keeping the taxes low will it keep a black market from thriving like it is in many blue states with high taxes.
How conservative! Let's legalize another drug and sin tax it while increasing the power and size of the federal government to control it. Surely this will fix everything that is wrong with society and we totally won't have more drugged out people on the gibs!
Given a truly free market, in a strong nation with only Whites in it, I welcome the folks who want to drop out of competition.
Makes it easier for me.
Yet we don't have anything like that here....
I share a house with 2 potheads, and they make me sick. Being high is the NUMBER ONE priority. Fuckin shitheads.
Yeah I actually hope this doesn't happen. Otherwise, combined with remote working, leftist fucking potheads will be free to move anywhere they want, primarily into red states.
My two are hardcore Reich-wingers, thank God, but still niggerish in their marijuana addiction.
hardcore Reich-wingers
At the start you were implying they were bad.
Yeah I guess technically the only pothead I know right now is also a hardcore Reich-winger. But still yeah, niggerish in obsession with weed.
My old high school friends were the same way. Too broke to do anything but always had a bag.
Oh go fuck yourself and move then pussy
Can't right now, Schlomo, but how is the weather in Tel Aviv right now?
Can we please keep the hand of the government and thus big pharma out of the weed?!
Edit: This sounds good but it will be fucked up b/c they want to kill us all
(((marijuana)))
Re-legalize actually.
It was legal from the moment of its creation until the year 1937.
It is ironic that the entire war on MJ was because they could not figure out how to TAX every plant. Now that the Free states are making millions taxing it, they have to have a piece.
Just sold 6 CCs on TLRY $13.50 Strike last week. I wouldn't complain if they were called away.
All in all this is long overdue. Hopefully the parties can agree on something and it doesn't get poison pills added to it.
Nothing will change for most people who use if this passes. Users in Canada still get bud from their longtime dealers for the same prices rather than govt dispensaries. These rules are more to capture new and future users. I could care less if weed becomes legal. It will change nothing for me.
Placate the proletariate.
I am for the legalization part, but against the sin tax and increase in government size parts.
They should be happy with the increased sales tax and income taxes that will result from increased market freedom. New taxes for a particular thing are not needed. The license thing is also stupid.
If this is considered ok, then the gov will systematically ban a thing, just to bring it back 5 years later but this time with a new tax. No, it's either legal and treated just as legal as all other farmed things or illegal.
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