Rep. Ilhan Omar: National marijuana legalization needed for 'equality in our laws' -- Congresswoman says a nationwide law would mean economic fairness.
By Torey Van Oot Star Tribune - July 6, 2019 — 12:17am
[...] Omar is a cosponsor of legislation that would remove the drug from the federal list of controlled substances and expunge federal convictions for marijuana possession or use. The measure is backed by a number of Democratic presidential candidates, including Sens. Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Kirsten Gillibrand, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. The proposal has so far failed to get a hearing in either chamber or attract support from Senate Republicans, whose votes would be needed to pass it.
A number of members of Minnesota’s congressional delegation, including fellow freshman Democrats Angie Craig and Dean Phillips, have previously expressed support for allowing states to legalize the substance. But Omar is the state’s only member pushing for lifting the prohibition on the federal level. Minnesota U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a presidential candidate, backs legalization but says “states should have the right to determine the best approach to marijuana within their borders.”
Those refusing to be part of sanity are part of the problem, and only that. They choose alienation toward any sensible policy solution. While not a Tony Cornish on the issue; where are Biden, Beto and Buttigieg on recreational mj? Anywhere that matters; that augers well for the future; or instead clinging to a past viewpoint that channels J. Edgar Hoover, and unencouragingly echoes things such as the Biden 1994 crime bill? Can the main corporatist candidate in the bunch show a learning curve?
How would Strom Thurmond have voted, and is that an indicator of how Biden would vote on the mj issue? Or Richard Russell? A Delaware Yankee liking too much amiss about "the South?" Then and now are worlds apart.