WASHINGTON: The Top Democrats senate supports bills that will grow a long-federal ban on marijuana, embrace proposals that have lean opportunities to become law but show increasing public support to decriminalize drugs.
The proposal for legalizing marijuana is not new.
But the majority leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer is a sponsor of efforts launched on Wednesday, underlining how the idea of ​​once-edge increasingly mainstream.
The size will erode the pillar of the war center for decades on drugs, which have disproportionally affected the color community in the United States.
“I will use my influence as a majority leader to make this a priority in the Senate,” Schumer said, New York, who was the first Senate leader to support such efforts.
“It’s not just an idea that the time has arrived, it’s been due a long time.” The bill will treat marijuana such as alcohol or tobacco, which allows it to be taxed and arranged.
The state can still ban its use.
And those under the age of 21 cannot buy it.
It will remain illegal to sell a significant amount without proper licenses and authorization, like alcohol bootleging.
It will also remove the path for additional marijuana medical research.
But in addition to cleaning up obstacles for recreational use, Advocates said the bill would help the poor and those from the color community that was disproportionately arrested, charged and imprisoned for marijuana crime.
The bill will eliminate federal non-violent beliefs and allow their records to be sealed.
Those who currently present punishments related to violent marijuana can also seek hearing reviews and receive deletion.
“We have our valuable resources used to lock …
black and chocolate people because of doing things that the President, Congress, and Senator have been carried out,” said Sen.
Cory Booker New Jersey, who is also the Cosponsor of the Bill, along with Oregon Sen.
Ron Wyden.
Similar bills have passed the house.
But the steps face a path that is almost non-existent in the senate which is narrowly divided, where 60 votes are needed to pass most of the laws.
Schumer admitted that not all Democrats supported the bill.
It includes President Joe Biden, who said he supported the decriminalization of marijuana but believed that the federal ban must remain.
“I have spoken in the past about the president’s view of marijuana.
Nothing has changed and there is no endorsement of new laws today,” said White Press Secretary Jen PSAKI Wednesday.
Republicans and influential law enforcement groups will definitely oppose it, too.
“I don’t understand how the Republicans say they are for ‘rights to say’ will not support what my colleagues are talked about,” Wyden said.
“What this bill does is we decrease at the federal level, but we don’t need the country to legalize.” Schumer and other sponsors of the bill said their proposal was “draft discussion” which was intended to start a conversation.
Although 18 countries have legalized recreational use and 37 allows for a kind of medical marijuana, the remaining federal prohibitions have created headaches for the industry in the state where it is legal, making it difficult for businesses to get bank loans and bank loans.
Those in the marijuana industry named Schumer support significant progress.
“This is a big demand and I am a realist,” said Joe Caltabiano, CEO of Choice Consolidation Corp and the founder of the Cresco Laboratory.
“It takes a lot to get this bill through the Congress.” Maritza Perez, from the drug policy alliance, said Congress finally followed where the general public had long ago.
Meanwhile, those who were punished for violations related to marijuana faced the consequences that changed life, so it was difficult to get a job or accept public benefits.
Earlier this month, the American Sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson was abandoned from the US Olympic list after a positive test for marijuana, cost opportunities in running the relay team in Tokyo, beside its place in a 100 meter individual race.
“Today is a historic day in the sense that we have the majority leader of the Senate introducing the bill to regulate and legalize marijuana.
It was great,” Perez said, who was the director at the National Affairs Office for the organization.
“For the public, marijuana has been culturally accepted.
But people forget that more than half a million people are arrested because they belong to marijuana every year.”