{"id":1130,"date":"2024-05-12T07:48:07","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T07:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2024-05-12T07:57:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T07:57:05","slug":"senate-democrats-reintroduce-legislation-to-legalize-marijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/senate-democrats-reintroduce-legislation-to-legalize-marijuana\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Reintroduce Legislation to Legalize Marijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The bill, which reflects growing support for legalization, would end the federal prohibition on cannabis. But it is unlikely to pass in an election year and a divided government<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislation\u00a0would create a new\u00a0framework regulating cannabis and taxing the burgeoning cannabis industry, expunge certain federal marijuana-related offenses from criminal records, expand research into marijuana\u2019s health impacts and devote federal money to helping communities and individuals affected by the war on drugs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measure, which was\u00a0first introduced\u00a0in 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marijuana move could help Biden in key voter group<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he Biden administration\u2019s move to loosen federal regulations on marijuana could help the president make much-needed headway among younger voters, a group that was crucial to his 2020 win but is showing waning enthusiasm for his reelection bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Drug Enforcement Administration\u2019s announcement last month that it will move forward with taking marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III substance represents the most substantial federal action on the drug since it was first scheduled in 1970.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While still not a complete decriminalization, the change, once finalized, would make marijuana use and possession a less serious crime at the federal level. According to Democratic pollster and strategist Celinda Lake, this can be coupled with a criminal justice message to woo young voters.&nbsp;&nbsp;<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Expand article logo\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.msn.com\/staticsb\/statics\/latest\/views\/icons\/textExpand_filled.svg\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Continue reading<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think it needs to be linked to the criminal justice reform that the President, the Vice President already have been very active on. And I think it\u2019s a very, very good part of a package of talking to young people about abortion, about threats to democracy, about student loans,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bill, which reflects growing support for legalization, would end the federal prohibition on cannabis. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatistandfor.co\/LeFachicette\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}