1 step closer to legalization?????

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There’s been another stride made in the favor of medical marijuana advocates. This one came more quietly than previous victories but is a big one nonetheless. The L.A. Times reports that inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that ends the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana — a major win in America’s new drug policy.

Under the change, marijuana dispensaries and shops in U.S. states where medical weed is legal no longer have to fear being raided by the feds.
 
The Omnibus Budget Bill’s Section 538, which addresses medical marijuana, reads:

None of the funds made available in this Act to the Department of Justice may be used, with respect to the States of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, to prevent such States from implementing their own State laws that authorize the use, distribution, possession, or cultivation of medical marijuana.

The bill also includes a section that protects industrial hemp cultivation.

None of the funds made available by this Act may be used in contravention of section 7606 (”Legitimacy of Industrial Hemp Research”) of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79) by the Department of Justice or the Drug Enforcement Administration.
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Per Americans for Safe Access, the Obama administration has spent nearly $80 million each year cracking down on medical marijuana, which amounts to more than $200,000 per day. Guess there will be a ton more DEA dudes without jobs!

Now the Feds just need to reclassify this from a Schedule 1 substance because anyone with any damn logic knows MJ is not in the same category as Heroin and LSD! :rolleyes
 
I don't even give a **** anymore. I'll care when weed is just as accessible and available as alcohol.

**** having to go to a dispensary.
 
SneakerHeathen said:
I don't even give a **** anymore. I'll care when weed is just as accessible and available as alcohol.

**** having to go to a dispensary.
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I don't give a damn about a dispensary. I'm surrounded by medical or recreation states. That'd be like saying I love paying sales tax.
 
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