Well you guys better contact your congress people and Senators to support this bill:
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – U.S Rep. Justin Amash has co-sponsored legislation to prevent the federal government from prosecuting people following their state marijuana laws.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, on Friday, April 12, introduced “Respect State Marijuana Laws Act of 2013.” The federal law would essentially be the same as each state’s law regarding marijuana.
“This bipartisan bill represents a common-sense approach that establishes federal government respect for all states’ marijuana laws," Rohrabacher said in a statement. “ It does so by keeping the federal government out of the business of criminalizing marijuana activities in states that don’t want it to be criminal.”
Amash, R-Cascade Township, co-sponsored the legislation with six others, including Democrats Earl Blumenauer, of Oregon, Steve Cohen, of Tennessee, and Jared Polis, of Colorado.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana to some extent.
Steve Fox, national political director for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in a statement: “Marijuana prohibition is on its last legs because most Americans no longer support it. This legislation presents a perfect opportunity for members to embrace the notion that states should be able to devise systems for regulating marijuana without their citizens having to worry about breaking federal law.”
Never in U.S. history has the public chosen leadership this malevolent. The moral clarity of their decision is crystalline, particularly knowing how Trump will regard his slim margin as a “mandate” to do his worst. We’ve learned something about America that we didn’t know, or perhaps didn’t believe, and it’ll forever color our individual judgments of who and what we are.
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