Senator introduces a bill to legalize marijuana and it’s called S.420

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27 points·aaronbrethorst··6 comments

It's fake news to make any specific claims about a bill that is a placeholder with no actual contents yet (as of February 10).

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/420...

In any case, removing cannabis from the Federal revenue code would not make cannabis "legal nationwide"; state laws against cannabis, where applicable, remain in effect.

I think referring to everything as "fake news" is silly, quite frankly. Here's a press release from the U.S. Senate's Committee on Finance announcing the same: https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-in...

Is that fake news, too?

Talk is cheap, most bills don't become law.

I believe I proposed the same thing when I was 13.

Don't be flippant. Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short. Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.

> Don't be flippant.

Naming the bill S.420 is unserious.

> Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short.

Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated?

> Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.

Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing?

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