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Sorry, Congress Probably Isn’t Going To Legalize Marijuana This Year

If you stick your head out the window and listen carefully, you will hear the shrieks, screams and howls of the cannabis community. In spite of the go-nowhere year that the United States has suffered concerning marijuana reform, a lot of these folks are still convinced that we have a fighting chance at legalizing the leaf before the end of the year. This optimism isn’t entirely their fault, however, as some reports to surface over the past couple of days have sort of suggested that prohibition here in the Land of the Free is as good as dead. They’re all riled up because the word on the street is that a key Congressional committee is set to make a historic vote later this week on a measure aimed at removing cannabis from the confines of the Controlled Substances Act. And if that happens, well, weed would finally be legal nationwide similar to alcohol.

What’s going on is that the House Judiciary Committee is set to debate a cannabis-related bill called the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act. This proposal, which currently has an impressive 55 cosponsors, is designed “to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide for reinvestment in certain persons adversely impacted by the War on Drugs, to provide for expungement of certain cannabis offenses, and for other purposes.” The bill would basically allow states to set up their own marijuana laws without catching any heat from the federal government. [Read More @ Forbes]

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