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Omaha Steve

(99,655 posts)
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 08:26 PM Aug 2016

Bernie Sanders Slams Decision Not To Reclassify Marijuana

Source: Huffington Post

By Daniel Marans

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) threw some shade at the Drug Enforcement Administration on Thursday.

The DEA announced it would end the federal government’s monopoly on marijuana cultivation, but to the disappointment of many drug reform proponents, the agency declined to reclassify pot from its list of “most dangerous” narcotics.

Sanders made clear on Twitter that he was among those dissatisfied with the decision not to remove marijuana from the federal government’s list of “Schedule I” drugs, where it sits alongside heroin and LSD. (Schedule I is the most severe category of illegal substances, referring to drugs with the greatest tendency for abuse and no known medical uses.)

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Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-marijuana-dea_us_57ac99c9e4b06e52746f7294

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Bernie Sanders Slams Decision Not To Reclassify Marijuana (Original Post) Omaha Steve Aug 2016 OP
Bernie is keeping it real True Dough Aug 2016 #1
Rock on Bernie!! truthisfreedom Aug 2016 #2
Have the nominees commented? n/t wildbilln864 Aug 2016 #3
Clinton favors rescheduling the drug Bradical79 Aug 2016 #18
If legalization passes in California lordsummerisle Aug 2016 #4
If Trump wins it will be a nightmare for the Recreational market. NWCorona Aug 2016 #8
If Trump wins... awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #9
If I sat on a Fed jury for one of these cases Punx Aug 2016 #12
The agency and cops don't want to lose all of the budget money they get! Dustlawyer Aug 2016 #5
Hey, but alcohol's just fine. Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2016 #6
And rightfully so! NWCorona Aug 2016 #7
"And rightly so" .... what? YOHABLO Aug 2016 #10
"Bernie Sanders Slams Decision Not To Reclassify Marijuana" NWCorona Aug 2016 #13
BigPharma and Prison Industry probably behind DEA decision. No doubt. YOHABLO Aug 2016 #11
And the police unions NWCorona Aug 2016 #14
My man Bernie Arazi Aug 2016 #15
Still feeling the Bern! Lunabell Aug 2016 #16
Still legal here - raven mad Aug 2016 #17
Hillary also doesn't like it. She calls to reclassify marijuana. apnu Aug 2016 #19

lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts)
4. If legalization passes in California
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 09:47 PM
Aug 2016

then it will be legal on the entire West Coast. One of the things keeping me awake at night is a Trump presidency with a Chris Christy attorney general, and a decision to have the DEA "invade" all the pot businesses out there, and it would be legal as federal law overrides state laws. Someone please talk me down on this...

Punx

(446 posts)
12. If I sat on a Fed jury for one of these cases
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 11:55 PM
Aug 2016

No way would I vote to convict.

Nullification all the way.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
5. The agency and cops don't want to lose all of the budget money they get!
Thu Aug 11, 2016, 10:07 PM
Aug 2016

Their self interest is why they hew to this ridiculous classification! It would cause layoffs but save tax money and many people's futures.

Lunabell

(6,082 posts)
16. Still feeling the Bern!
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:54 AM
Aug 2016

Marijuana is the only relief from pain my wife with fibromyalgia can get. She doesn't want opioids due to their danger and addictive properties. Prohibition against pot is just ridiculous and big pharma is to blame!

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
17. Still legal here -
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:07 AM
Aug 2016

what's kind of funny is the growers in the Matanuska Valley are being shafted by federal law, can't get the stuff "certified organic" label................ As if no one has ever heard of Matanuska Thunder Fuck........... that's been around since I was in high school, a long, long time ago!

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