Thread: Booker introduces bill to legalize marijuana nationwide

Originally Posted by MW

Yes, and that's what we're talking about, marijuana legalization.

No, legalization is an action. Old news in Colorado. Already happened in Colorado, 4 years ago. Nothing bad occurred from it, and some good things actually happened after it. Did those things happen because of legalization 4 years ago? Hard to say, who knows, could have been other actions they took or it might have been directly related to the action of legalization. Either way, all your fear-mongering has failed as proven by the data.

Originally Posted by Judy

No, legalization is an action. Old news in Colorado. Already happened in Colorado, 4 years ago. Nothing bad occurred from it, and some good things actually happened after it. Did those things happen because of legalization 4 years ago? Hard to say, who knows, could have been other actions they took or it might have been directly related to the action of legalization. Either way, all your fear-mongering has failed as proven by the data.

You just continue living in "Judy's world" and I'll stay grounded here on planet earth.

Title of post that started the thread:

"Booker introduces bill to legalize marijuana nationwide"

Originally Posted by MW

You just continue living in "Judy's world" and I'll stay grounded here on planet earth.

Title of post that started the thread:

"Booker introduces bill to legalize marijuana nationwide"

LOL!! This thread is almost a year old from August last year. We're talking about your Hickenlooper Colorado post of today on this old thread, old news, lame duck Governor.

Originally Posted by Judy

LOL!! This thread is almost a year old from August last year. We're talking about your Hickenlooper Colorado post of today on this old thread, olf news, lame duck Governor.

Like I said, "You just continue living in "Judy's world" and I'll stay grounded here on planet earth."

Elizabeth Warren and Cory Gardner team up for a bipartisan Senate bill to back states' rights on marijuana

Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado told Yahoo News he met with Sen. Elizabeth Warren to discuss a bill to prevent the feds from meddling in state-controlled marijuana industries.
He said a draft of the bill could appear as early as later this week.

Chloe Aiello | @chlobo_ilo
Published 4:19 PM ET Thu, 26 April 2018 Updated 6:46 PM ET Fri, 27 April 2018 CNBC.com

Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., is teaming up with Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to take President Donald Trump up on his word to leave state marijuana industries alone.

In an interview with Yahoo News, Gardner said he met with Warren and "a number of senators on both sides of the aisle" on Wednesday to discuss a bill that will prevent the federal government from meddling in state-controlled marijuana industries. He said a draft of the bill could appear as early as later this week.

"Basically, this is a states' rights bill. This is a federalism bill that says if a state like Colorado decides to move forward on medical marijuana, recreational marijuana, CBDs ..., hemp, that that activity is going to be lawfully, legally carried out," Gardner told Yahoo News. CBDs are products derived from a non-psychoactive cannabinoid widely thought to have therapeutic potential.

"If Oklahoma wishes to maintain a prohibition on marijuana, then it would be illegal under state and local law in Oklahoma. But as far as Colorado goes, there would no longer be an illegal activity," Gardner added.

Senator Gardner's office declined to comment, except to confirm what was reported in the Yahoo article. Senator Warren's office also later confirmed the two would be collaborating on the bill.

The proposed bill would not alter the scheduling of the drug. Cannabis is currently schedule 1, or the most tightly regulated, making it as illegal and difficult to study as heroin. Instead the bill "opts the state out of the marijuana provisions" in schedule 1. In other words, a state ignoring marijuana's federal regulation won't be breaking the law.

According to Gardner, Warren got involved in January, when Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the Obama-era Cole Memo, which provided some protections to state marijuana industries. The two had "a number of conversations."

"It was clear that Elizabeth Warren and I were thinking about the same kind of approach on a federalism level," Gardner told Yahoo News.

Gardner said he has no illusions that the bill will pass easily and he anticipates both Democratic and Republican senators may want "tweaks," but he does believe Trump will "hold to his end of the bargain."

Gardner has made headlines in the past year for his obstinate support of Colorado's marijuana industry. After Sessions' move to revoke the Cole Memo, which angered many prominent politicians from marijuana-friendly states,Gardner promised to block all Department of Justice nominations, pending a resolution.

His move prompted Trump to agree earlier this month to support efforts to protect states that have legalized marijuana, ending Gardner's standoff on DOJ nominations.

For her part, Warren has been at the forefront of marijuana politics in her home state of Massachusetts. She has expressed a desire to implement regulation and improve marijuana businesses' access to banking.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/26/sens...-pot-bill.html
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This is the federal bill I'm going to support because states are demonstrating in spades they have the full wherewithal to regulate their own weed businesses under their own legalization plans. With that, we don't need a big federal weed control agency at all. Zero. Let the states handle it, they're more competent at stuff like this than the feds anyway.

Originally Posted by MW

Like I said, "You just continue living in "Judy's world" and I'll stay grounded here on planet earth."

Yeah, you do that, that's why you've never fixed anything in our country.

Originally Posted by Judy

Well, based on the article I posted about Colorado

That's the problem, competing articles rather than hard facts. So we are left for our own opinions of what to believe. This reminds me of lyrics from the Moody Blues Album "Days Of Futures Passed". The first and last track goes:
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight.
Red is grey and yellow white.
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?

Since everybody is different everybody reacts to things like drugs differently. What is good for some (Cancer patients) is bad for others (recreational users). That is the reason most drugs are restricted to prescription use.

I have seen the damage by marijuana in parts of my own family. And if society allows the "experiment", that damage may be irreversible. The dehabilitating effects have been documented. I believe the fact that marijuana is damaging to children. Therefore, it is harmful. Most drugs are. Essentially, drugs are poison. But in the correct doses they can kill germs without killing the host. The "high" experienced from drugs, including marijuana is the result of suppression of brain cells. Sometimes these changes become permanent.

Children should not have access to many things including drugs and that is the responsibility of their parents and family to ensure they don't.

Alcohol the Most Dangerous of Addictive Drugs - The Treatment Center
https://www.thetreatmentcenter.com/blog/alcohol-dangerous-addictive-drugs/
When most people think of dangerous drugs, they picture heroin, meth, cocaine, and the like. As it turns out alcohol is actually at the top of the list.

Nothing compares to the addictive properties of Oxycontin, Oxycodone, Hydocodone, Morphine and Percoset pain killers prescribed by doctors and pushed by nurses.