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

27 points by aaronbrethorst 8y ago

EvangelicalPig 8y ago
Talk is cheap, most bills don't become law.
bitlax 8y ago
I believe I proposed the same thing when I was 13.
- InclinedPlane 8y ago
  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.
  - bitlax 8y ago
    > 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?
    - tumahimikka 8y ago
      > Naming the bill S.420 is unserious. Are police canine units not serious because they're called K-9? What a stupid comment > Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated? There's a difference between decriminalizing and making something freely legal. Stop conflating the issue > Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing? The case the parent comment referenced could be 1 of hundreds, because this happens frequently. Why is decriminalizing drugs bad policy? Portugal has had no problems in addition to the many states that have already legalized MJ, let alone decriminalizing it
masonic 8y ago
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/text?q=%7B"search"%3A%5B"420"%5D%7D&r=7&s=1 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.
- aaronbrethorst 8y ago
  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-introduces-s-420-to-legalize-cannabis https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-in... Is that fake news, too?

EvangelicalPig 8y ago

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

bitlax 8y ago

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

InclinedPlane 8y ago
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.
- bitlax 8y ago
  > 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?
  - tumahimikka 8y ago
    > Naming the bill S.420 is unserious. Are police canine units not serious because they're called K-9? What a stupid comment > Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated? There's a difference between decriminalizing and making something freely legal. Stop conflating the issue > Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing? The case the parent comment referenced could be 1 of hundreds, because this happens frequently. Why is decriminalizing drugs bad policy? Portugal has had no problems in addition to the many states that have already legalized MJ, let alone decriminalizing it

masonic 8y ago

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/text?q=%7B"search"%3A%5B"420"%5D%7D&r=7&s=1 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.

aaronbrethorst 8y ago
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-introduces-s-420-to-legalize-cannabis https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-in... Is that fake news, too?