Bill to remove Pot from Federal regulation sponsored in House

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Democrats see marijuana as a way of keeping the public sedated and compliant.

Wrong.

Democrats see marijuana as something best left for individuals to decide, not government.

The decriminalization of marijuana is warranted and long overdue.

 

[martybegan]

The driving thing is easy to regulate, the smoking around others? Unless you are in a mass of people at a Phish concert, contact highs are more of a myth than reality.

At a Phish concert though, it is 100% reality, especially in indoor arenas.

Some cats are affected by catnip while others are not. I don't know if all cats are affected by marijuana smoke or not but I had a cat who definitely was.

As soon as this fat tuxedo-cat smelled the smoke he'd come and sit at our feet at first, then stretch up on his hind legs to get his nose closer to the exhaled smoke. After a few minutes he'd start purring, then he'd roll over, his purring would become a roar and his eyes would open wide and shine.

He was known to some of our friends as, Cheech.

Cat stories, always funny.

 

[martybegan]

This only has 6 sponsors so far, and hasn't even been taken up in committee, but it's a start. Lets see if it even sees the light of day.

Cosponsors - H.R.1227 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017

The crux of the text as it amends the Controlled Substances Act of 1970

Prohibition On Certain Shipping Or Transportation.—This Act shall not apply to marihuana, except that it shall be unlawful only to ship or transport, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, marihuana, from one State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, when such marihuana is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

So basically Pot would get the Alcohol treatment. States can regulate it, and all the feds do is punish people who try to bring it into places where it is locally banned.

Well, considering it's direct link to schizophrenia I can see why the DC establishment would want the people to have it.

No, there is no direct link in the sense that marijuana doesn't make people schizophrenic. It's that the symptoms of schizophrenia can be made worse by smoking marijuana. Alcohol also makes it worse.

Marijuana leads to schizophrenia.

If you want evidence, look at every leftist.

Plus marijuana causes cancer.

or people who schizophrenia go to pot to try to treat it.

Correlation is not causation.

And modern vaping technology removes most of the cancer risk from pot, same as with cigarettes.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Hope it dies. No thanks. I have STUPIDLY smoked once and drove and I barely remember it and I am shocked I managed to make the 20 plus mile trip without being pulled over or wrecking....

Pussy...It's a joke that weed is illegal in the first place..

Not really.

It is addicting and there are many users that end up needing to go through detox for it.

But alcohol is the same way.

Alcohol is just more acceptable socially, and sexy, and does not stink like camel shit like pot does.

There has never been a single human being in the history of the world that needed to go through a "detox" for marijuana.

It is "addicting" in the same way that sex is, or gambling. There is no physical addiction involved.

 

[HappyJoy]

This only has 6 sponsors so far, and hasn't even been taken up in committee, but it's a start. Lets see if it even sees the light of day.

Cosponsors - H.R.1227 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017

The crux of the text as it amends the Controlled Substances Act of 1970

Prohibition On Certain Shipping Or Transportation.—This Act shall not apply to marihuana, except that it shall be unlawful only to ship or transport, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, marihuana, from one State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, when such marihuana is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

So basically Pot would get the Alcohol treatment. States can regulate it, and all the feds do is punish people who try to bring it into places where it is locally banned.

Well, considering it's direct link to schizophrenia I can see why the DC establishment would want the people to have it.

No, there is no direct link in the sense that marijuana doesn't make people schizophrenic. It's that the symptoms of schizophrenia can be made worse by smoking marijuana. Alcohol also makes it worse.

Marijuana leads to schizophrenia.

No, marijuana does not make one schizophrenic, especially not legal adults.

If you want evidence, look at every leftist.

Plus marijuana causes cancer.

Not necessarily and it's hardly as dangerous as cigarettes or McDonalds for that matter.

But, tell us small government conservative about how you want to make things illegal becasue they are not explicitly healthy for us.

 

[mikegriffith1]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

 

[theDoctorisIn]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

There is literally nothing in the world that is "harmless".

 

[HappyJoy]

This only has 6 sponsors so far, and hasn't even been taken up in committee, but it's a start. Lets see if it even sees the light of day.

Cosponsors - H.R.1227 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017

The crux of the text as it amends the Controlled Substances Act of 1970

Prohibition On Certain Shipping Or Transportation.—This Act shall not apply to marihuana, except that it shall be unlawful only to ship or transport, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, marihuana, from one State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, when such marihuana is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

So basically Pot would get the Alcohol treatment. States can regulate it, and all the feds do is punish people who try to bring it into places where it is locally banned.

Well, considering it's direct link to schizophrenia I can see why the DC establishment would want the people to have it.

No, there is no direct link in the sense that marijuana doesn't make people schizophrenic. It's that the symptoms of schizophrenia can be made worse by smoking marijuana. Alcohol also makes it worse.

Marijuana leads to schizophrenia.

If you want evidence, look at every leftist.

Plus marijuana causes cancer.

or people who schizophrenia go to pot to try to treat it.

Correlation is not causation.

And modern vaping technology removes most of the cancer risk from pot, same as with cigarettes.

Yep, vaping and edibles have kind of killed the 'pot causes cancer' argument.

 

[Kosh]

This only has 6 sponsors so far, and hasn't even been taken up in committee, but it's a start. Lets see if it even sees the light of day.

Cosponsors - H.R.1227 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017

The crux of the text as it amends the Controlled Substances Act of 1970

Prohibition On Certain Shipping Or Transportation.—This Act shall not apply to marihuana, except that it shall be unlawful only to ship or transport, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, marihuana, from one State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, when such marihuana is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

So basically Pot would get the Alcohol treatment. States can regulate it, and all the feds do is punish people who try to bring it into places where it is locally banned.

 

[Silhouette]

One more thing to not smoke near businesses.

 

[Silhouette]

This only has 6 sponsors so far, and hasn't even been taken up in committee, but it's a start. Lets see if it even sees the light of day.

This is, legally speaking, kind of like trying to fix a hole in the hull of the boat after it has sunk to the bottom of the ocean.

 

[HappyJoy]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

It's a good thing pot doesn't harm people, people harm people.

 

[martybegan]

This only has 6 sponsors so far, and hasn't even been taken up in committee, but it's a start. Lets see if it even sees the light of day.

This is, legally speaking, kind of like trying to fix a hole in the hull of the boat after it has sunk to the bottom of the ocean.

Something has to change. The War on Drugs has been a costly stalemate for decades now.

 

[Seawytch]

H.R. 1227 is going nowhere. Without a very Liberal Democrat in the White House and a strongly Progressive Democratic Congress marijuana prohibition will be strengthened, if anything. We may rest assured that the only effect introduction of this Bill will have is a frantic surge of lobbying (bribery) by the liquor industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the prison industrial complex, and the legal profession.

Because each of these entities, and a lot more, will be severely compromised if recreational pot is ever legalized. The beer industry has already suffered a $2 billion setback in the collective states where pot is now legal.

We just have to get the pot lobbyists to give more money to Republicans than the beer and alcohol lobbyists do.

 

[Seawytch]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

There is literally nothing in the world that is "harmless".

I've heard "Harmless as a rabbit"

Pet shrink for vicious 'Thugs Bunny' who bites and chases human victims

 

[MikeK]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

Please provide a link to your source of that information.

 

[Weatherman2020]

This only has 6 sponsors so far, and hasn't even been taken up in committee, but it's a start. Lets see if it even sees the light of day.

Cosponsors - H.R.1227 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017

The crux of the text as it amends the Controlled Substances Act of 1970

Prohibition On Certain Shipping Or Transportation.—This Act shall not apply to marihuana, except that it shall be unlawful only to ship or transport, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, marihuana, from one State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, when such marihuana is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of such State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof.

So basically Pot would get the Alcohol treatment. States can regulate it, and all the feds do is punish people who try to bring it into places where it is locally banned.

Well, considering it's direct link to schizophrenia I can see why the DC establishment would want the people to have it.

No, there is no direct link in the sense that marijuana doesn't make people schizophrenic. It's that the symptoms of schizophrenia can be made worse by smoking marijuana. Alcohol also makes it worse.

Marijuana leads to schizophrenia.

If you want evidence, look at every leftist.

Plus marijuana causes cancer.

or people who schizophrenia go to pot to try to treat it.

Correlation is not causation.

And modern vaping technology removes most of the cancer risk from pot, same as with cigarettes.

Wrong, wrong, and wrong.

Vaping and Lung Cancer: What You Should Know

 

[Weatherman2020]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

Please provide a link to your source of that information.

Like that it causes cancer?

https://oehha.ca.gov/media/downloads/proposition-65/chemicals/finalmjsmokehid.pdf

 

[dblack]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

Yep. That's one of the many benefits of legalization - reliable information about the risks of use. We also get better quality control, and people don't have to deal with potentially dangerous criminals to get their weed.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Now that pot has been more or less legal in some states for a while, scientists are finding additional evidence that pot is not harmless.

Yep. That's one of the many benefits of legalization - reliable information about the risks of use. We also get better quality control, and people don't have to deal with potentially dangerous criminals to get their weed.

Yes, using people as medical experiment fodder is a wonderful idea.
Let's just eliminate the FDA and let anyone put out drugs.
We will eventually find out which ones to avoid.