News Schumer's legal weed bill is finally here

[thegreenhand]

Schumer's legal weed bill is finally here​

Natalie Fertig
Politico
21 Jul 2022

Excerpt:

Senate leaders are introducing sweeping legislation Thursday meant to lift federal prohibitions on marijuana more than 50 years after Congress made the drug illegal.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act would decriminalize weed on the federal level and allow states to set their own marijuana laws without fear of punishment from Washington.

The bill has been a long time coming — Schumer, along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) proposed a discussion draft more than a year ago — and its odds of passing in this Senate are slim. But the legislation will shape the conversation around cannabis legalization going forward and portions of it are likely to find their way into other bills that could pass before the end of the year.

 

[Snafu in the Void]

Too bad Republicans own the senate.

Is there really any hope for this to go anywhere?

They can't be having the woke leftists getting even more extreme, right?

 

[thegreenhand]

is there really any hope for this to go anywhere?

Nope

Not even all the Dems are on board with it

 

[neversickanymore]

I don't think many people are worried about the federal governments symbolic "law" at this point. They have already been defeated, but one must keep up appearances even if its only fantastical political drama to comfort ones loyal constituency.

Keeps some big money corporations out.. all the better.