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Bernie Sanders rolled out his marijuana legalization plan at 4:20 p.m.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has a plan to light up his first 100 days in office.
Sanders, a longtime supporter of marijuana legalization, unveiled a plan to make that happen if he's elected president. Specifically, he'll legalize it during his first 100 days in office, as well as enact a plan to ensure the weed industry doesn't end up like big tobacco, his marijuana plan posted at 4:20 p.m. Thursday explains.
Sanders rolled out his plan along with some marijuana statistics, including how "African Americans are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white Americans" despite roughly equal marijuana use. That fact is at the heart of the need for criminal justice reform in the U.S., Sanders writes, and it's why he's making marijuana legalization and expunging past weed convictions his top priority.
So in his first 100 days in office, a President Sanders would nominate an "attorney general, HHS secretary, and administrator for the DEA" who back his reform goals. He'd then "immediately" issue an executive order to the attorney general so they "declassify marijuana as a controlled substance," and later focus on "legislation to ensure permanent legalization of marijuana." Next up, Sanders would create a system to "vacate and expunge" all federal and state marijuana convictions. Sanders also has pledged to ensure revenue from legal marijuana benefits areas hit the hardest by its illegality, and introduced steps to "ensure legalized marijuana does not turn into big tobacco."
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https://theweek.com/speedreads/874276/bernie-sanders-rolled-marijuana-legalization-plan-420-pm
Now that's poetic timing.
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Bernie Sanders rolled out his marijuana legalization plan at 4:20 p.m. (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Oct 2019
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Crowman
(27 posts)1. and in case some are ignorant of Bernies history on Black civil rights.
https://store.berniesanders.com/collections/apparel/products/civil-rights-tee?variant=30971980021831
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beastie boy
(9,376 posts)2. And who could resist "rolled out"?
That's pretty auspicious too!
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)3. LOL! Auspicious it is! Are we impressed yet?
Bernie rolls out the doobie plan.
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Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)4. ...
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JudyM
(29,251 posts)5. And in so doing helps millions who are in pain or have other medical issues that cannabis can help.
Including addictions such as tobacco and opioids.
My mother had a condition on her leg that her highly reputed university dermatologist said couldnt be reversed. We used cannabis salve on it because it was an inflammatory condition. The doctor was visibly stunned by the improvement at the next visit, took a lot of notes and lamented that other patients couldnt be helped by it because they couldnt prescribe it due to the federal funding restrictions.
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Baclava
(12,047 posts)6. Wait, can he legalize mj over existing federal laws with an E.O.?
Not that there's anything wrong with that
420
lol
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