A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address “the glaring vagueness” that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country …
A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address “the glaring vagueness” that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country — including sometimes from vending machines or online.
A letter dated March 20 addresses the consequences of Republican lawmakers’ choice to legalize hemp production in the 2018 omnibus Farm Bill — a decision that perhaps inadvertently led to a multibillion-dollar market in intoxicating cannabis products that are arguably federally legal.
Now, the attorneys general want Congress to shutter the market it helped create. In the new Farm Bill, they want the legislature to enshrine in statute the idea that intoxicating cannabis is not federally legal — contrary to what the law currently states.
They don't want to raise taxes on the rich. Here's a massive way to raise taxes that won't affect the income of rich people unless they want to buy a shit ton of weed.
And yet they're still against it.
They pretend like a 100% tax free nation is a possibility.
Wow, imagine Republicans getting worked up about the wording of a law being twisted in ways it was never intended when it was first drafted. That’s wild.
I get an ounce delivered to my mailbox on a monthly subscription and occasionally order extra when something goes on sale. I keep trying to share about legal weed on lemmy whenever the topic comes up, but i just get downvoted. I don't know if people think it can't be real or just want something to bitch about.
I think the loophole is going to stay in place. The hemp lobby has exploded since 2018, and has done a lot to keep the loopholes from closing in even very Red states. In the real world money is what talks, and I think there’s too much money at this point to put the genie back in the bottle.
But that’s my two cents. I could be wrong. Hope I’m not.
Even the worst Roman emperors knew not to fuck with what makes the crowd content. If those right wing motherfuckers think they can touch our bread and circuses without consequences, they will find out.
If someone wanted to purchase this legal weed, say, in South Carolina, is there a guide somewhere indicating what is legally available in that jurisdiction?
The attorneys general of Indiana, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District
of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina,
North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Commonwealth of Virginia, and
Washington for any wondering.
Personally I'm of the opinion that they can't take it back now. It's too late.
They cannot undo or erase the harms it's caused. However they could regulate it...and that would be fair. No one under the ages of 18-21 should be able to buy or access this stuff ever; and the required packaging and regulations surrounding that should reflect it.
This should be no more heavily restricted than tobacco products; which already ARE restricted heavily through taxation, permitting, and ID checking at the Point of Purchase.
It would even be fine if you had to obtain these products from behind a dispensing counter; with no prescription needed...just an ID and a clue of the risks that these products carry. There is no need to amend the previous law, just make new ones.
The best thing we can do is deschedule and regulate it.
But Biden doesn't want the easy win he promised 4 years ago.
And this is one thing he can actually do on his own. He just made all federal agencies return to office against their wishes, he can tell the DEA to deschedule.
If Biden says he doesn't want to use that power, than we need a president who's willing to do things he's legally allowed to do. You can't fight extremists and your own party at the same time. It just results in a slow march to the right, because Republicans won't even stop at what they're legally allowed to do.
It's "bringing a knife to a gun fight" except he's not even bringing a knife. He's showing up to an active gun fight and telling the good guys fighting off the extremists that violence is wrong.
In a way that's right, but the middle of a gun fight isn't the time to lecture the people defending themselves about pacifism.