A team of U.S. senators unveiled an early version of a bill on Wednesday that could have major implications for anyone who uses, or has been punished for using, marijuana.
What effect it would have in Indiana, though, is still up in the air.
Cory Booker, Ron Wyden and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released a “discussion draft” of the Cannabis Administration & Opportunity Act. Among other things, the bill aims to decriminalize weed on the federal level, expunge the records of anyone arrested on non-violent marijuana crimes, and give anyone languishing in federal prison the opportunity to file for resentencing.
It would also slap regulations on weed products sold in legal states, allow marijuana businesses to apply for bank loans, and end the block on federal cannabis research.
Its main goal, though, is to take a small step toward reversing the discriminatory practices of a drug war that’s raged in the U.S. for decades.
“By ending the failed federal prohibition of cannabis, the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act will ensure that Americans – especially Black and Brown Americans – no longer have to fear arrest or be barred from public housing or federal financial aid for higher education for using cannabis in states where it’s legal,” the bill reads in part.
What it doesn’t do, though, is legalize weed across the U.S.
States would still have free reign to set their own cannabis laws. And legalization in Indiana, recreational or otherwise, has been a…
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A team of U.S. senators unveiled an early version of a bill on Wednesday that could have major implications for anyone who uses, or has been punished for using, marijuana.
What effect it would have in Indiana, though, is still up in the air.
Cory Booker, Ron Wyden and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer released a “discussion draft” of the Cannabis Administration & Opportunity Act. Among other things, the bill aims to decriminalize weed on the federal level, expunge the records of anyone arrested on non-violent marijuana crimes, and give anyone languishing in federal prison the opportunity to file for resentencing.
It would also slap regulations on weed products sold in legal states, allow marijuana businesses to apply for bank loans, and end the block on federal cannabis research.
Its main goal, though, is to take a small step toward reversing the discriminatory practices of a drug war that’s raged in the U.S. for decades.
“By ending the failed federal prohibition of cannabis, the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act will ensure that Americans – especially Black and Brown Americans – no longer have to fear arrest or be barred from public housing or federal financial aid for higher education for using cannabis in states where it’s legal,” the bill reads in part.
What it doesn’t do, though, is legalize weed across the U.S.
States would still have free reign to set their own cannabis laws. And legalization in Indiana, recreational or otherwise, has been a…
