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cali

(114,904 posts) Tue Sep 10, 2013, 09:05 AM Sep 2013

Pot fans cheer Tuesday's historic Senate hearing

The Senate Judiciary Committee will open landmark hearings Tuesday in the nation's capital that could ultimately lead to the legalization of marijuana or at least resolve the deep divide between a federal government that has sent mixed messages on prosecuting users and the growing number of Americans who want the drug to be legal for medicinal or recreational use.

Requested by its committee chairman, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, the timing was triggered by the announcement last month by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder that federal authorities no longer will interfere as states increasingly adopt laws to either allow medical marijuana or legalize the drug entirely.

In calling for the hearing, Leahy himself questioned whether, at a time of severe budget cutting, federal prosecutions of marijuana users are the best use of taxpayer dollars.

"Leahy favors legalization," said Dan Riffle, director of federal policies for the nonprofit lobby group Marijuana Policy Project in Washington, D.C.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/09/senate-hearing-marijuana/2790917/

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Pot fans cheer Tuesday's historic Senate hearing (Original Post) cali Sep 2013 OP

You can hear the bulkheads breaking; that ship is going under! Eleanors38 Sep 2013 #1

Thank you Sen. Leahy! panader0 Sep 2013 #2

Pot Fans bahrbearian Sep 2013 #3

Prohibition is a failed public policy. nt TeamPooka Sep 2013 #4

How will we maintain law and order? Enthusiast Sep 2013 #5

That scream of rage is blackspade Sep 2013 #6

Eleanors38

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1. You can hear the bulkheads breaking; that ship is going under!

Reply to cali (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2013, 09:48 AM

Sep 2013

The WOD depended on a nationalized prohibition, in place since a SCOTUS decision a century ago. If that scheme goes, it all goes.

Kudos to MPP which I have backed since the mid-90s. Now, it's state-by-state, like the lotto laws. New Mexico? Oregon? Vermont? Mass? Hell, Florida? Get another like Florida, ain't NO ONE in a thousand miles gonna let tax money & revenues go to only there.