The Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation Banking Act, known as the SAFER Act, has been advanced to the full Senate floor to be voted on. This would make it easier for marijuana businesses to access the financial system.
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#Senate #Marijuana #Banking
Much Commercilisation of Rastafari
Legalize Cannabis (Greek word for “Marijuana”). It’s 100 fold safer than Alcohol.
it’s almost as if, some people will have to make educated decisions on their own about whether this substance is for them or not. Oh, we can’t have personal accountability in america – we have to protect the STUPID people. @Jeff Dumpster
@RonaldYelp you don’t smoke you know nothing😂
@XeroUniversityDoctors are gonna tell you false information because they’re being paid Give me a link with a study that proves with out a shadow of a doubt that you get a brain aneurysm from marijuana Go for It I’ll wait I bet you don’t say anything bot Which Instantly Discredits everything you said meaning i’m right 😂
@XeroUniversityYup you definitely sound like an old alcoholic😂
@RonaldLet’s just say and I could probably say This with certainly not that I know but i bet you have a greater chance of getting cancer form breathing in the air then marijuana smoke😂
Hurry please
ok seriously, why these pittences? just make weed legal already
Y E S.
So slow
It’s right around the corner… one day people will realize that cannabis is way way way better and safer to use than alcohol
Pennsylvania needs to get with it!
@Ree McLaughlin They really do. I’m in Virginia and I’m growing a strain that is 50% Congolese and 50% medical strain from PA and it smells fire. PA got it going on, y’all just have to get with the program
we can dream right???
Just a matter of time that it will be legalized all over America. MONEY GREED
and that is why you have a lot of mad and homeless people! 😂
Haha. Not in Texas, Tennessee, South Carolina, Nebraska or South Dakota.
@FingerBanger15 They will fold when they start losing tourists to recreational states 😂
I love smoking weed. It helps me forget about this hideous world. Legalization is coming, just not soon enough.
What is happening currently is there are wine vineyards whom also cultivate cannabis and they are having wine tours and cannabis tours intertwined to let the yuppies and the uptights feel at ease, drinking some wine and smoking some bud…. Fantastic marketing.
Next legalize cocaine, mushrooms and heroin let people buy regulated, pure products and put anybody selling any fentanyl anything in prison for life I’m talking precursors, anything and xylazine
They will legalize the money but still keep the prison stock secure by not reclassifing. Ahhh more lobbiest corruption on full display again.
Dumb America. Stop making racist laws and we wouldn’t be here.
I live in a legal state so this means nothing to me other then I can’t put it on my credit card which is a good thing.
Do not go financing marijuana.
Just think about it you’re going to finance marijuana. Everybody grows it you can’t control it, they light it on fire and it does not contribute to society it undermines it.
Let’s finance stupidity there’s money in it. No I will not loan you money to go do something stupid. What are you guys using for brains?
Don’t Finance bad behavior.
Don’t reward bad behavior.
Don’t put another red cent into marijuana. The stuff’s bad for our children.
Its not just bad, the weed kills fertility both in male or female body, especially laboratory grow.
But slamming back a big ole glass of bourbon is good for the nerves….
This world a man’s world, not the children’s.
That’s why let the politicians do their job review and mandate the laws.. anything is addicting to the world.. even candies and pop are bad for our children’s health.. pretty sure it is not legal to minors.. anything taken beyond moderate is always bad.. what we need is strict implementation of law to all who all violators..
Lol. Hashing it out🤣🤣
Smoke weed every day
If everyone smoked, the world could be a better place ❤
Naw, Joe Rogan smokes and he’s a right wing tool. Smoking doesn’t open your mid to anything. It just a good way to relax.
@EthansSmallHands well yeah that’s true but if Joe Rogaine didn’t smoke, he’d be much more radicalized. But I guess you’re right, it’s not gonna open anyone’s mind
Shalom
Senate: Marijuana yes! How about the border – who cares? let them all in!
Exactly. That’s why their approval rating is lower than a rat in the gutter.
Quit dancing around the issue, listen to the people and LEGALIZE it already! JFC!
🙄🙄can we at least be United on legalizing marijuana if nothing else
Obidens fentenal too.😊
Banks want access to that cash. They aren’t going to walk away from billions. Especially now that liquidity is becoming a problem for them. It’ll pass.
indeed. Seems like you know where the real power is in this country. A politician can and will always be bought.
Just screams a broke federal government is scratching for taxes…
Like 401k s the feds income is down the crapper
So big money will have things easier now. Great good to know.
When obidenomics gets ahold of this its gonna cost the stoner $100.oo a gram…the chase it with an $9.00 box of dry capin crunch…..
Cannabis credit card.
one of the major reasons for this change is that canabis has to be a cash buisiness at this moment. meaning they are targets of robberies
thanks! I really wasn’t sure what this story was saying, but now that you reiterated exactly what the news report said, I get it now.
@scrat you really thought you did something clever here lol 🤡
Robbery of armored cars by the police. Look it up if you’re interested.
And they can sell it at Walmart!
This is good news, because I work in the security industry, alarms, surveillance, evacuation, and I have had customers who have been attacked, robbed, beaten, and hospitalized when taking cash from place to place. It’s dangerous and this needs to be done for safety reasons on many levels. And God bless all the sick and cancer patients in need.
Great news for banking business for marijuana! Fantastic!
Another win for the banksters and their lobbyists. But on the bright side, now there are some powerful people with incentives to push for legalization…
Either way, I’ll probably be ready to quit altogether on the day it’s legalized…
I can see the RepubliCANTS using this banking bill to shut down the financial system for cannabis industry.
Scam! This is so the banks can make millions and billions off credit card fees. Bars, liquor stores, smoke shopped, vape shops etc have cash on site. Hire security guards. This topic is the LEAST of the problems in this democrap country. More people will be in debt over credit card purchase, interest rates, late fees….all part of the scam.
About freaking time
Its inconvenient thats for sure having to go pull cash out from a ATM before going to the dispensary..
Someone should invent cannabis ATM’s. Of course they would have to be made of Boron Carbide. They have to make sure they put well stocked snack machines right beside them. Everything for a night of relaxation in one stop. Just make sure your dog or cat doesn’t eat the pot or you’ll have to tape a baggie to it’s butt.
Giving you guys 1 grain of sugar when you want a tea spoon.
I never did like dope.
Tennessee needs to get on board! Come on Tennessee…what’s taking so long to legalize?
They don’t like the devils lettuce in the Bible belt.
@MoonDude Actually there are probably more whosmoke it than don’t 😁
Me in Florida prying for the recreational bill in 2024 😔🙏
Crazy how it’s still illegal smh ban alcohol
Just what Amerika needs is more dope.
Better to have a country of drunks right? Ban alcohol, legalize marijuana. Much more peaceful.
hahaha, ok boomer, what is this 1960? Let me help you – in the 21st century “dope” is heroin.
Clearly you are missing a few braincells. More pot needed @scrat
With booze you lose, with dope there is hope?@C Robinson
@apologiamixer considering dope is heroin, nope. I am old, but I don’t follow old like you.
It’s about money everything in life bro 😎
That’s capitalism for you
In love weed! We need more weed growers and pickers!
I don’t need nobody just give us home grow ill grow and pick my own And I will supply my friends and family for free As it should be😊
The Herb is for the healing of all
Nations
Read it
In revelations
Watch weed save the economy for the first five years , student Loan debt was the last solid % goods and basic services are not an economy it’s debt slavery
10 % for the big guy 😂😂😂
Great for the businessman… what about the Men and Women of this country??? FEDERALLY LEGALIZE!!!! Taxation and regulation just allow the system to continue to sink their claws into the people!!!
Theyre stealing it n reselling it n making the actual college people pay
“We’re not gonna legalize it federally, but we want to grab some of that money out of your pockets.”
Yup nailed it
Don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good. Some senators said they wouldn’t approve legalization but recognize the importance of this bill.
The way I see it man. it’s not federally legal. And they’re passing a banking act. Well, what happens when the bank gets suspicious and reports you? You’re getting entrapped in a illegal act.
@Matthew Robert you’re not wrong. I hadn’t even considered that. Could be either reason, or both. Though these days I think the government is more concerned with trying to get their hands on the revenue, rather than jam people up over something the vast majority of Democrats, Republicans, and independents want legalized.
Hopefully none of the lawmakers that have imprisoned people over the herb are not allowed to partake in the legality.
legalize it
They should just open it all because we’re not ejecting it with the syringe or breaking it down powderly, we’re given this gift from Mother Earth that we’re floating on this giant space rock in the middle of nowhere. .
Legalize it
America has fallen. Abominations, sorceries (Pharmakeia), witchcraft, the occultist of the devil.
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
Yes finally they are going to seize your profits legally!
Yes I see your deposit slips, unfortunately we have no record of it¡
🎉🎉🎉
Only a matter of time – government smells big money and they want some of it
People need to be released from prison.
Cool…more corporate corruption…lol…do you ever quit?
So this would put large US conglomerates who want to sell marijuana (and they would be large, given the cost of sending marijuana through the same regulations we give cigarettes and alcohol in) in direct competition with the cartels (who don’t do any of that) over who gets to poison the population. WOW! COOL! CANT WAIT TO GROW UP IN AMERICA!
and in other news…..the sales of the Doobie Brothers music has quadrupled overnight and the stock market has seen historic increases in the sale of snack industry stocks.
CGC 🚀 🌙
Banks are already laundering money for cartels. 😅
If u legalize it recreationally and open shops u will make that much maybe more, please do it for us people who use it medically and recreationally I use mostly as medicine I know will work right for me, Please please legalize weed recreationally please
This is so stupid, you’re gonna pass a baking act. And federally, it’s still illegal. So basically you’re gonna do entrapment on people?
its only illegal until government gets a cut like the mexican government lol
This is still illegal federally if this bill passes. It does nothing to address full legalization.
The banks are technically committing a crime.
When will the Republican representation bend to the will of the people, fully legalize and regulate… Like they do with poisonous alcohol and cigarettes.
Nothing more than corrupt politicians not bending to the will of the people
The corrupt politicians always adhere to the will of the bankster gangsters, but never adhered to the will of the people. It’s always about criminalizing the citizens.
California cops have been stealing money from armored cars transporting cash made in legal dispensaries. I guess that will end. Corruption everywhere. This will help end that gangster police shakedown.
Hey, let’s work on this instead of something important like the budget
Until the crook politicians running this country get their cut, it won’t be Federally legalized.