The bill, spearheaded by Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Cory Gardner
(R-CO), would give states leeway to make their own decisions on both
recreational and medical marijuana policy.
No doubt Trump will want to smoke a peace pipe with “Pocahontas” at the signing ceremony.
Once a self serving whore, always a self serving whore…
At least it is now for a good cause…
Hat tip to Kate for the “Blunt Talk” pun. Well played!
Ah - another Republican politician with a personal stake in the public policy position he takes. Carry on.
“A key of hash,
A jug of merlot
And thou beside me,
Tripping in the wilderess”
–Boehner Khyyam
I would remind everybody that Boehner is a paid lobbyist for the pot industry. This isn’t exactly a shocking position for him to take.
That said, I think it is about time the Federal Government got out of the marijuana enforcement business.
GOP should be loving MJ. Can’t think of a more effective way to suppress the vote than to fill the states with people who no longer care about anything except scarfing down potato chips.
I would remind everybody that Boehner is a paid lobbyist for the pot industry.
Uhm, I think he IS in the pot industry ?
Since leaving Congress in 2015, Boehner has flipped his position on marijuana, even joining the board of a company that promotes the use of medical marijuana.
its bigger than just pot, too, this opens the door for unrestricted hemp production, which carries its own deep environmental and fiscal benefits.
Without the contrived boogey-man image for pot, there’s no excuse to ban hemp.
There will be if enough lobbyists for products that would be replaced by hemp get to Congress in time.
Republicans tend to very quickly become reasonable once out of office. There’s a broader message there, I think…
“When you look at the states where medical marijuana is pretty prevalent, the use of opioids is down 25 percent,”
Yeah, but so are the arrests and excessive sentences for brown people inequitably targeted by police for enforcement. I’m pretty sure most GOPers in Congress prefer the opioid epidemic to losing such institutionalized advantages for their white nationalist base.
Boehner’s Blunt Talk: Let States Regulate Their Own Pot Policies
No
There are private prisons that need to be filled with slave workers, how else are they expected to make a profit.
This would be great. HOWEVER, there is an important thing to consider:
Is pot part of the drug testing that is done for employment? We hear a lot of comments about how US workers cannot pass drug screening tests. If drug screening tests screened for alcohol residue or by-products, I doubt that I would pass. If you smoke/chew/whatever on pot, it may persist, and this may bar employment.
It’s really important to get pot out of the employment drug screening profile.
Shhhhhhhhhhhh… don’t want to let Republicans know something they’ve done benefits anyone other than whites, it confuses their policy making.
Until a test can determine if someone is presently under the influence of marijuana, and not just in their system sometime over the last 30 days, it’s not going to happen. Especially with the cornerstone of employment testing resting on the federal transportation drug testing laws, which I don’t disagree with in the slightest. Otherwise, I think it should be fully legalized.
I think this is mostly about it being much more feasible for his employers to buy state legislators and officials one by one, versus getting his former colleagues in line to do something profitable for him.
And it is a big deal, because the way that marijuana is regulated by states affects both addiction rates and who profits from sales.
which is why it happened in the first place…had nothing to do with drugs, it was just too competitive with paper pulp, long fiber and petroleum products.
I found an old list of crop yields from the early 20th century, glued in the drawer of an antique desk’
Hemp was listed as the most productive and versatile product on the ag market, ACRE FOR ACRE AND POUND FOR POUND.
…except that the comparison of pot driving hazards is, like all such comparisons, a false equivalency to drunk driving.
They are desperate to equalize the two conditions, they hate “progress” so badly, they can’t divide their pot prejudice off of their political prejudices. They will continue to villainize marijuana until… they die.