Tom Angell 🌳📰ⓥ
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@MarijuanaMoment journalist. 25+ years in cannabis reform. tomangell@gmail Link primary source documents, you cowards. I don't care about stocks. #YIKESgang
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Joined December 2008
Former candidate @BetoORourke, who launched his national political career by fighting establishment figures over the war on drugs, endorses @JoeBiden, establishment figure who actually wrote many laws that established and ramped up the war on drugs.
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BREAKING: Harris is rolling out a plan to make legal marijuana "the law of the land" and to ensure that “Black men—who have, for years, been overpoliced for marijuana use—are able to access wealth and jobs" as a "national cannabis industry takes shape.".
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BREAKING: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden and Sen. Cory Booker just announced a plan to release a federal marijuana legalization proposal “in the early part of this year.”.
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Holy crap. Kansas GOP rep justifies keeping marijuana illegal:. "African Americans, they were basically users and they basically responded the worst off to those drugs just because of their character makeup, their genetics and that". He said that in 2018.
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Actor @Sethrogen is trying to help stop the spread of COVID by encouraging people to “hang out alone and smoke weed and watch movies” instead of going out. And a top Canadian elected official is praising the advice.
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TONIGHT: Bernie Sanders just pledged at an Iowa rally that he will "legalize marijuana in every state in this country” on his "first day in office, through executive order.". WATCH:.
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TODAY: The Democratic National Committee’s platform committee voted 106 to 50 to *REJECT* an amendment to endorse legalizing marijuana.
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WOW. The first time we’re getting a look at a black hole, right here:
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Vice President Kamala Harris, in her first public marijuana comments since the election, essentially says the Biden administration is too busy to follow through on its campaign pledges to decriminalize cannabis and expunge records.
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To no one in particular. If you’re worried news coverage of your party’s vote against endorsing legal marijuana might help the other party (which also doesn't back legal cannabis) I respectfully suggest you do a better job of getting your party to side with the majority of voters.
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@Sethrogen Write stoned and edit sober or write sober and edit stoned?. Or do it all stoned?. Note: there is no all sober option.
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JUST IN: House Majority Whip James Clyburn just confirmed that there will be a floor vote on a bill to federally legalize marijuana next month.
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@joerogan The Texas Republican Party officially just endorsed decriminalizing marijuana, expanding medical cannabis and legalizing industrial hemp. Texas!. Republicans!.
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BREAKING: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has just signed the marijuana legalization bill into law. Possession is immediately legal.
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BREAKING: The Seattle, Washington City Council just unanimously voted to decriminalize psychedelics such as psilocybin, ayahuasca and ibogaine. It’s the largest city in the U.S. to do so at this point.
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Remember when House Democrats delayed a floor vote on marijuana legalization in September because moderate members were worried about losing their seats and then voters in red states approved marijuana legalization and many of those moderate Dems lost their seats?. Cool strategy.
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New Biden-Harris transition plan on racial justice does not include his campaign promise to decriminalize marijuana and expunge records—even though it mentions other criminal justice reforms they touted alongside the cannabis pledge in recent months.
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BREAKING: House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer just announced that there will be a floor vote on a bill to federally legalize marijuana ***NEXT WEEK***.
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BREAKING: The Minnesota Senate just sent a marijuana legalization bill to the desk of Gov. Tim Walz, who has pledged to sign it into law. The state is just one signature away from being the 23rd in the U.S. to legalize cannabis.
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BREAKING:. The House Judiciary Committee just approved a bill to federally legalize marijuana. HISTORIC! Stay tuned to @MarijuanaMoment for updates on what comes next.
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POWERFUL: @MeghanMcCain said today that medical marijuana could have potentially extended the life of her dad, Sen. John McCain. “Going through what I went through last year, I am so angry that there is such a stigma attached to cannabis.". WATCH:.
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NEW PEW POLL:. 67% of Americans now support legalizing marijuana.
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HUGE: Oregon voters just passed a first-of-its-kind ballot measure to legalize psilocybin therapy. Its approval comes after several cities across the country passed local psychedelics decriminalization policies.
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NEW: @AOC filed a new amendment to promote research on the medical benefits of psychedelics like psilocybin & MDMA. Other proposals from other lawmakers would push FDA to regulate CBD & strip protections from universities that study marijuana. DETAILS:.
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BOOM: The House of Representatives just passed a measure to block the Department of Justice and DEA from interfering in *all* state marijuana laws. The measure goes far beyond the existing medical cannabis protection rider enacted in 2014.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Senate just approved a House-passed marijuana research bill—marking the first time in history that standalone cannabis reform legislation has ever been sent to the president's desk.
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BOOM: The highest court in Georgia* just invalidated all marijuana possession penalties. No crime, no fine:. “Consumption of marijuana is an action protected by the right to free personality.”. *The country, not the state.
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BREAKING: Rep. Pete Sessions, who has systematically block every single marijuana amendment from getting a floor vote this Congress, just LOST reelection.
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BREAKING: The Drug Enforcement Administration has agreed to move marijuana to Schedule III—a historic reform in line with recommendations from health officials who determined that cannabis has medical value.
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BIG: The marijuana banking bill is being being reintroduced in the House tomorrow. #SAFEBanking.
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BREAKING: The federal report on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UFOs) has just been released.
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BREAKING: The World Health Organization is admitting that officials have gotten marijuana wrong for decades and is now calling for cannabis and its components to be rescheduled!.
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JUST IN: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill to legalize cannabis cafes where people can smoke marijuana, eat food and watch live events such as concerts.
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BIG: Amazon will stop drug testing many workers for marijuana and will also actively lobby Congress to pass a federal legalization bill. The move to treat cannabis “the same as alcohol use” from one of the U.S.’s largest employers will have a huge impact.
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BREAKING: Ohio voters have approved a marijuana legalization ballot initiative. The Buckeye State is now the 24th in the U.S. to end cannabis prohibition.
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BREAKING: The Alabama Senate just voted to legalize medical marijuana. On to the House….
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Joe Biden—who campaigned on decriminalizing marijuana and expunging past convictions—has been president for 93 days, but literally the only thing he has done on the issue is fire White House staffers for having consumed cannabis.
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Now do “is arresting people for marijuana an essential activity?".
Some people may disagree - but transporting ziplock bags of marijuana & a digital scale in your backpack does not make you an essential traveler in the eyes of the Transit police. Hopping a turnstile while doing so didn’t help either. Nice grab by our District 1 team!
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BREAKING: The House has passed a marijuana banking bill by a vote of 321 to 103. This is the first cannabis reform legislation ever to pass a chamber of Congress. Now on to the Senate.
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NEW: Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is calling for direct drug war reparations payments to formerly incarcerated people, funded entirely by marijuana industry taxes.
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BOOM: The Portland, Oregon City Council just voted to take marijuana tax revenue away from the police department.
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HUGE: The House Judiciary Committee plans to vote on a bill to federally legalize marijuana on Wednesday.
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BOOM. This is going to set off a wave of legal cannabis on the East Coast. CC: New York and Pennsylvania.
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BIG UPDATE: @RepRaskin and @AOC—chair and vice-chair of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties—just sent a scathing letter to U.S. Olympic officials slamming the marijuana suspension of Sha’Carri Richardson.
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NEW PEW POLL finds that 91% of Americans now support legalizing marijuana for recreational or medical use.
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A big hearty fuck you to those cannabis industry execs and weed stock bros who oppose full federal marijuana legalization because they want to keep dominating in their state-by-state fiefdoms while other people continue to get screwed by criminalization.
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I hope everyone who is rightly calling out and retweeting threads about how terrible George HW Bush was in ramping up the racist and disastrous war on drugs is also prepared to do the same for Joe Biden if he announces a presidential run.
While Reagan and Bush Sr were denouncing drugs on TV, Biden was enacting new mandatory minimum drug sentences, expanding civil asset forfeiture, and creating the drug czar’s office. He has never apologized for that or his horrific 1994 crime bill.
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Wow. @KillerMike, @chancetherapper & @MeekMill just schooled the Supreme Court with a drug war history lesson in a new brief:. “These communities watched in horror as newly militarized police departments turned weapons of war. on their own citizens". READ.
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BIG: Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate @JohnFetterman plans to pressure President Joe Biden "about the need to finally decriminalize marijuana" when they both attend next Monday's Labor Day parade in Pittsburgh.
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Wow it’s a good thing you guys arrested so many cigarette consumers after 1997 to foster that big reduction in smoking.
#Shocking: 1 in 17 18 year olds in America used #marijuana DAILY in 2017 - 25 years ago it was 1 in 53. CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE and
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WATCH: @joerogan does his best to convince Ted Nugent that not all marijuana consumers are lazy fucks.
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It’s official: Florida @GovRonDeSantis just signed a bill letting patients smoke medical marijuana.
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BREAKING: The Illinois Senate just approved a bill to legalize marijuana. House action is expected soon ahead of Friday’s end-of-session deadline. Gov. J.B. Pritzker campaigned on ending cannabis prohibition and will sign it into law.
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BREAKING: The U.S. House of Representatives just voted to federally legalize marijuana. The bill now heads to the Senate, where Majority Leader Chuck Schumer will soon file his own cannabis bill.
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WATCH: Congress debated @AOC’s amendment to remove barriers to researching Schedule I drugs like like psilocybin, MDMA and marijuana early this morning. A vote is coming later today….
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BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is recommending that marijuana be moved to Schedule III. Now the ball is in the DEA's court to sign off on moving cannabis out of the mosrt restrictive federal category.
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👀👀👀. JD Vance said "we’ve got fentanyl in our marijuana bags that our teenagers are using"—adding he's "certain" that "one day, one of my kids is going to take something…that I don’t want them to take. But I don’t want that mistake to ruin their life.".
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BOOM: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker just issued 9,000 more marijuana pardons and announced that *HALF A MILLION* cannabis arrest records have been expunged. Happy new year!.
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WOW: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas issued a scathing statement slamming the federal government’s “contradictory” and “unstable”position on marijuana and suggesting that national cannabis prohibition may be unconstitutional.
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Sen. Kamala Harris:. “We will decriminalize marijuana and we will expunge the records of those who have been convicted of marijuana.".
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BREAKING: Maine House votes to override Gov. LePage’s veto of marijuana legalization implementation.
2-19, LD 1719, IMPLMNT A REGULATORY STRUCTURE FOR ADULT USE MARIJUANA, RECONSIDERATION - VETO, Yea 109 Nay 39.
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UPDATE: Hatch will also introduce legislation to remove current roadblocks to marijuana research.
WOW. Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch will speak about the benefits of medical marijuana on the Senate floor today.
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BREAKING: The House Financial Services Committee just approved a bill to allow marijuana businesses to access banks. The vote was 45 to 15!. The panel also processed several amendments. DETAILS:.
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BREAKING: The Department of Health & Human Services has released 252 pages of full, unredacted documents detailing & justifying its recommendation to move marijuana to Schedule III—including a finding that cannabis "has a currently accepted medical use.".
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"As states continue to legalize marijuana, we must also enact measures that will lift up people who were unfairly targeted in the War on Drugs… The Senate will make consideration of these reforms a priority.” — @SenSchumer @RonWyden @CoryBooker.
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WOW: The US surgeon general criticized marijuana’s Schedule I status today, saying that it creates unnecessary “difficulty” for scientists who want to research cannabis.
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BIG: @SenWarren and @SenBooker just sent a letter urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to federally decriminalize marijuana.
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BREAKING: Illinois lawmakers just sent a marijuana legalization bill to the desk of Gov. J.B. Pritzker, who campaigned on ending cannabis prohibition. Illinois is about to become the 11th state to legalize & first to regulate sales thru lawmakers' action.
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JUST IN: A huge collection of members of Congress from both parties are pushing back hard against Jeff Sessions anti-marijuana move.
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BIG: President-elect Donald Trump has named Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), one of the most marijuana-friendly Republicans in Congress, to serve as the next attorney general. He has voted for Democrat-led cannabis legalization bills.
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BREAKING: The Texas House of Representatives just voted to decriminalize marijuana. People caught possessing small amounts of cannabis would avoid arrest and incarceration. Still more steps until it gets to governor’s desk. DETAILS:
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BOOM: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker just pardoned more than 11,000 people for past marijuana records—one day before legal recreational cannabis sales are set to begin in the state.
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As you read the news about Brittney Griner's marijuana verdict today, do not let the fact that Russia's drug laws are especially egregious and unjust obscure the fact that the U.S.'s drug laws are also egregious and unjust—and the president is doing virtually nothing about it.
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NEW: @AOC blasts Joe Biden’s comments on cannabis being a gateway drug as “Reagan-era talking points”:. “The only thing that marijuana, due to the failures of U.S. policy, is a gateway to is our mass incarceration system,” she told @MarijuanaMoment.
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BREAKING: The Alabama Senate just voted to legalize medical marijuana. Seriously. ALABAMA. The bill now moves to the House. DETAILS:.
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BREAKING: Vermont lawmakers just voted to legalize marijuana. Take that, Jeff Sessions!. #vtpoli
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NEW: Reps. @mattgaetz and @RoKhanna have just been added as cosponsors of @AOC’s amendment to expand research on psilocybin, MDMA and other psychedelic drugs. The Rules Committee decides tonight whether this can go to the House floor. BACKGROUND:.
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BREAKING: Germany's marijuana legalization law has officially been signed and will go into effect on Monday.
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Jeez. Police officers just rifled though a cancer patient’s bags in a hospital room in a futile attempt to find marijuana so they could cite him. This happened in a state where voters legalized medical cannabis. VIDEO of the latest drug war outrage:.
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NEW: Congressional Budget Office says the marijuana legalization bill the House passed last week would add $13.7 billion in net revenue to the federal budget. It would also cut 73,000 years worth of prison time and save $1 billion in incarceration costs.
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Why is Kamala Harris so insistent on using rhetoric that implies the war on drugs ended during the Obama administration?. Actually, there are still roughly 1.5 million drug arrests every year in this country. Let’s end this current drug war before we worry about “another.".
Kamala Harris: "What we don't need is another war on drugs".
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BREAKING: Two new studies published by American Medical Association show states with legal marijuana access have reduced opioid prescriptions. "Marijuana liberalization may serve as a component of a comprehensive package to tackle the opioid epidemic." .
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BREAKING: The Louisiana House of Representatives just voted to decriminalize marijuana possession. A separate bill to legalize cannabis sales is scheduled for floor consideration on Wednesday. LOUISIANA!.
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BREAKING: The long-anticipated federal marijuana legalization bill from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sens. Cory Booker and Ron Wyden has finally been filed. DETAILS:.
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BREAKING: Key New Jersey lawmakers just approved a marijuana legalization bill.
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So many white dudes with cannabis stock ticker symbols in their bios showing up in my mentions to criticize racial justice protestors. All you dumb fucks are getting blocked and will no longer benefit from my marijuana policy reporting. Thoughts and prayers to your portfolios.
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And let’s not forget: Feinstein also wants the DEA to arrest her constituents who follow California’s marijuana laws.
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BIG: North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is endorsing marijuana decriminalization & directing state attorneys to review his power for cannabis pardons. This huge move shows the momentum & broader impact already generated by Biden's action just a few days ago.
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LOL. The DEA just put out a guide aimed at helping parents decode the emojis that young people use to discuss drugs like marijuana, psychedelics and other “bomb ass shit.”. 'how do you do, fellow kids?’.
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BIG: President Joe Biden has officially announced that the Department of Justice is moving to reschedule marijuana to Schedule III.
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BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee just approved a bill to federally legalize marijuana. It’s not yet clear if other panels will waive jurisdiction like they did last Congress or if it has more steps to go before reaching the floor this time.
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SCOOP: @repblumenauer just filed a new bill to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and instead regulate cannabis like alcohol. …. Its bill number is H.R. 420. Really.
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BREAKING: Utah’s lieutenant governor just declared that marijuana opponents FAILED to kick medical cannabis off the ballot. See you in November!
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Don’t get tricked by Alex Berenson into arguing whether marijuana is safe or dangerous. Stay focused: No matter what one thinks of cannabis, prohibition increases all possible harms. No quality control testing & labeling. Criminal market sells to kids. Arrests ruin lives.
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BREAKING: Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo will formally propose that the state legalize marijuana through her budget proposal this week. “Things have changed, mainly because all of our neighbors are moving forward.". DETAILS:.
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BREAKING: President Trump just spoke about new Senate marijuana legislation. Asked if he supports it, he said:. “I really do. I support Senator Gardner. I know exactly what he’s doing we’re looking at it. But I probably will end up supporting that, yes.”.
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