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Marijuana Legalization 2015: How Bernie Sanders’ New Bill Will End Federal
First off, the bill falls in line with public opinion on marijuana.
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“In my view, states should have the right to regulate marijuana the same way that state and local laws now govern sales of alcohol and tobacco”, Sanders said at the town hall, which was livestreamed to roughly 300 college campuses across the country.
If passed, the law would allow states to set their own marijuana laws, although it would still be illegal to traffic marijuana across state borders into places where marijuana prohibitions remain in place. McCain also sees marijuana as a “gateway drug”, which Sanders disagrees with. The Senate bill would remove marijuana from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s list of the “most dangerous” drugs and strike marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, allowing states to decide whether they want to legalize pot for recreational or medical use without federal intervention. This is a significant political move that could also help Bernie Sanders pull into the lead from where he’s trailing behind in Iowa and New Hampshire. Former Maryland Gov. and Baltimore Mayor Martin O’Malley said he supports putting marijuana on Schedule 2, a category that includes drugs like cocaine, opium and morphine.
For the past several years, a coalition of Democrats and Republicans in the House have pushed amendments into spending bills blocking the Justice Department from using resources to prosecute medical marijuana businesses and cultivators in states that have legalized the drug for medical purposes.
The bill is a long-shot in the Senate and Sanders declined to say whether he had any co-sponsors for the measure. This is the first Senate bill to propose legalizing recreational pot, according to marijuana advocates.
“Senator Sanders really grabbed the nation’s attention when he became the first major-party presidential candidate to speak out in support of ending marijuana prohibition”, said Mason Tvert, a spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, which has given Sanders an “A” grade for his stance on the issue. Hopefully, this legislation will get his colleagues in Congress talking about the need for comprehensive marijuana policy reform.
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A Gallup poll released last month found 58 percent of Americans are in favor of legalizing marijuana use.