Bernie introduced legislation to remove Marijuana from Fed Controlled Substances List:

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Bernie Sanders To Introduce Legislation to Remove Marijuana from Controlled Substance Act

Posted by Kaliko Castille at 5:50 PM on October 29, 2015 Ending Marijuana Prohibition.


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bernie sanders marijuanaOne day after announcing at George Mason University that he plans to introduce legislation to remove marijuana from the list of controlled substances, Senator Bernie Sanders took to the Senate floor to give an impassioned speech about how marijuana prohibition has failed.

In a speech that lasted ten minutes, Sanders drew contrast between the prison populations in the U.S. and China. “Tragically, in the United States of America we now have 2.2 million people in jail. This is more people incarcerated than any other country on Earth—including China, which is a communist, authoritarian country four times our size,” Sanders said.

He touched on the fact that the United States currently spends $80 billion per year in taxpayer money locking people up, explaining that we should continue locking up violent people, but should not be allowing criminal records from non-violent marijuana crimes to destroy the lives of thousands of Americans

http://www.theweedblog.com/bernie-sanders-introduce-legislation-remove-marijuana-controlled-substance-act/

[giftedgirl77]

1. It's so weird that he had to wait until he was campaigning

to introduce legislation.

[felix_numinous]

2. Great news!!

The Drug War may be finally coming to an end.