“It is time to end the arrests of so many people and the destruction of so many lives for possessing marijuana”, Sanders said. His plan would also let marijuana businesses in legal states use financial services and take tax deductions now unavailable to them under federal law.
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There are now three Democrats still seeking the Democratic nomination for president of the United States and fifteen Republicans seeking the Republican nomination. In many political circles, there are gametes of viewpoints, which really don’t matter. This means states could still choose to prohibit marijuana or legalize it – but they would no longer face the threat of federal interference if they did legalize.
” class=”glossaryLink cmtt_Politicians” Bernie Sanders’ proposal to deschedule cannabis by removing marijuana from the list of scheduled drugs shook the cannabis law reform movement in the best way possible”.
M. President, too many Americans in this country have seen their lives destroyed because they have criminal records as a result of marijuana use.
It’s also a bit of an evolution for Sanders, who said in an interview with Yahoo! earlier this year that marijuana is a “gateway drug” that can lead to heroin and cocaine use. However, simply rescheduling marijuana from I to II would not limit the federal government’s authority to prosecute marijuana offenders, including those who are in compliance with state law. “That has got to change”, Sanders said, citing a recent Federal Bureau of Investigation report that someone in the United States is arrested every minute on marijuana charges.
“In 2014… there were 620,000 arrests for marijuana possession”. But at a Wednesday evening town hall, a young Muslim woman wearing a purple head scarf asked how the presidential candidate would combat a rising tide of anti-Islam rhetoric in the country.
On Saturday night, Sanders caught the Clinton campaign off guard by using his speech at a major Democratic event in Iowa to draw his sharpest contrast yet with the former secretary of state on key progressive policy items. His plan? Remove the drug entirely from the federal government’s official list of risky drugs. And in Colorado, and I believe other states, a few of that revenue is being used to fight the effects of substance abuse, of hard drugs like opiates that are harming so many communities.
Because marijuana is still federally outlawed, banks – which are subject to federal regulation – can not accept funds generated by the sector.
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Having spent many years in the senate, the Vice President and Sanders have worked together on a number of issues.
