Marijuana Majority: Americans Now Back Legalization

AllardChardon said:

There are plenty of people, who already live in this area, that are trimmers and look forward to the extra work and cash at this time of year, so trimigants would not survive well, here. I do all my own and take my time doing it, simply because I cannot afford to hire anyone else.

I read recently the Mexican government wants to legalize pot to stop the drug cartels from doing their business. Outdoor growing operations can take more work, but what the sun brings to the finished product cannot compare with indoor, IMO. I am sure the Mexican farmers could compete in this market, if they wanted to. But, would our government allows its citizens to obtain their marijuana from outside the U.S, once it is legal everywhere? I doubt it.

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Marijuana Bill Proposed by Gillibrand, Booker & Paul is No Joke

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Sen. Gillibrand was joined by a two of her constituents who traveled from New York, including Kate Hinz, a full-time caregiver for her daughter, who suffers from epilepsy and has multiple seizures in a typical day. “[Federal marijuana law] is clearly a case of ideology getting in the way of scientific progress,” Gillibrand said. “Families aren’t just afraid of prosecution. They’re afraid of child services knocking on the door to take their children away. We need to modernize our laws.” “Otherwise law-abiding Americans are fearful of unnecessary, expensive, life-disrupting investigations,” said Booker. “Enough is enough. These laws must change.”

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Marijuana Bill Proposed by Gillibrand, Booker & Paul is No Joke
Shawn Drury | 10 hours ago | Justice

It’s tempting to crack a 420 joke or make a reference to Twitter hashtags when talking about marijuana legalization, but legalizing pot is a serious matter. That was hammered home Tuesday at a Capitol Hill press conference featuring Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Rand Paul (R-KY). The senators were joined by constituents who stand to benefit from a bill the trio is proposing.

The Compassionate Access Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act would shift marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II drug and revise federal law to give states more control over medical marijuana policies. It would also allow health care providers in the 23 states where medical marijuana is legal, including doctors at VA hospitals, to dispense the drug without fear of reprisal. The bill would not legalize medical marijuana in all 50 states.

Each of the senators spoke about a specific aspect of the bill.
Sen. Gillibrand was joined by a two of her constituents who traveled from New York, including Kate Hinz, a full-time caregiver for her daughter, who suffers from epilepsy and has multiple seizures in a typical day. “[Federal marijuana law] is clearly a case of ideology getting in the way of scientific progress,” Gillibrand said. “Families aren’t just afraid of prosecution. They’re afraid of child services knocking on the door to take their children away. We need to modernize our laws.” “Otherwise law-abiding Americans are fearful of unnecessary, expensive, life-disrupting investigations,” said Booker. “Enough is enough. These laws must change.”

“As a society we’re changing our opinion on restricting people’s choices as far as medical treatments,” said Paul, who is an ophthalmologist. Paul said he had recently visited Colorado, and the marijuana business community told him they want to put their money in a bank. “My guess is even more tax money would come in if they could put their money in banks and not brown bags.”

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AllardChardon said:

A friend of mine, who lives in Washington State, says their legislature is trying to put an end to medicinal marijuana for patients and go with recreational pot for everyone. I certainly hope they don't try that here in California.

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Suddenly Everyone* Wants To Legalize Weed (*Not Everyone)

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To bring to life the old cliché that libertarians are just Republicans who want to get high, a couple of conservatives have unexpectedly supported various changes to marijuana laws this week. What’s more, there’s even a bill in the U.S. Senate to end the federal ban on medical weed and reclassify marijuana’s legal status from a Schedule 1 to a Schedule 2 drug, thus “allowing doctors to recommend its use in some cases to veterans, expanding access to researchers and making it easier for banks to provide services to the industry.”

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Oh, sure, there’s a lot that’s terrible about Indiana’s new awful “religious freedom” law, what with the legalized discriminating and the basic slap in the face to the spirit of the Civil Rights Act. But that doesn’t mean that there are no silver linings, or at least leafy green ones, as an enterprising Indianan, Bill Levin, has filed paperwork (Zig-Zag brand, no doubt) to form the First Church of Cannabis Inc. with the Indiana Secretary of State’s office.

So far, the church seems mostly to consist of a Facebook page promoting the “Cannabiterian” faith, which urges everyone to take their “morning prayer puffs,” with the promise of a crowdsourcing site yet to come, although we haven’t yet seen a link. Still, you have to be impressed with their straightforward pricing structure for creating an instant church hierarchy (ha! ha! HIGHER-archy, more like!):

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The family of an epileptic girl who was experiencing as many as 100 seizures a day said this week that their daughter had quickly improved after they moved from Ohio to Colorado for cannabis treatments.

Mother Heather Benton told WCPO that her 3-year-old daughter, Addyson, began receiving a non-psychoactive THCA treatment two days after making the 1,200-mile move from West Chester to Castle Rock.

“It’s been fantastic,” Heather Benton explained. “Her seizures have gone from around 100 noticeable seizures a day to — the other day we counted, I think it was 19. We were down to 19.”

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