Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., held a press conference with other Democratic lawmakers to introduce the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. The legislation will aim to change the federal government’s approach to handling marijuana, as the Biden administration plans to reclassify the drug.
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#ChuckSchumer #Cannabis #Marijuana
So long over due, and he didn’t do it nor even suggest it…
Who got it reclassified as schedule 3?
@@moonshoes11 the US DEA is rescheduling it, after the US Justice and US Attorney Xochitl Hinojosa studied the process, and Biden will sign it
@@reynoldsreynolds4394 Aren’t you happy you have the high school education necessary to do your own research so you don’t have to get important information from propagandist trolls on social media?
@@moonshoes11 Maybe if you get back into school and work on your GED, you can learn how to answer questions like that yourself, with quick and simple credible research, rather than consuming your information from random strangers on the internet that have no accreditation whatsoever.
Yes it is.
it should be de-classify and legalize!!! tax churches and wealth corporation!
Yes…our country does need to catch up science.
Keep it going this pace is too slow!
Way to go, senators. It’s the right thing to do. Now get the bill passed and signed😊
good times.
Right before election season I see. Never actually doing anything for the people but only the bare minimum to remain in office. Sad.
This wont happen anytime soon. Its pandering at best.
Yep, he thinks legal weed and free college will make us forget he’s funding a genocide.
Jews who vote Democrat not only hate their religion but also their race as Israeli. Illan Omar and Thalib both are far left radicals that want a world of no Jews. From the river to the sea.
Yeah, Imma go smoke a blunt right now
A good move, its still a bit of a half-measure, but its good medical patients and researchers can get access to what they need.
This makes so much sense seeing everything going on in the country. If I was in charge this would be the most important thing to help people. Inflation is still outrageous. Not coming down. So they are lying if they say so. Gas has risen back up. Crime is still high. They are reporting it so they say it’s coming down. Not true. But our government this is more important to do.
I agree 💯 legalize the Tree
“To catch up with public opinion.”
Seriously, isn’t that why you people are voted in? To represent the people and their opinions, not your own? Thanks for admitting that sometimes your motives and the people’s motives line up, and that’s the bone we are thrown every now and then.
The older I get, the more clear it becomes that elected officials exist to prevent the will of the people.
Voting for people interested in common good died with the two party system.
Republican Taliban would never do this.
Release ALL prisoners, in both state and federal prisons.
My brother is doing life in prison with the three strikes law, because of cannabis charges.
I served our nation in it’s lies about “weapons of mass destruction” and “spreading democracy and freedom”, and whole-heartedly regret it.
biden is trying on the federal level, with the pardons. if you wont state you need to tell that to you’re governor’s job.
Contact your local state representatives. Websites like LPP make it easy. (Last Prisoner Project)
So if cannabis is rescheduled to a schedule 3 substance does that mean an employer cannot fire an employee if they have cannabis in their system as long as the employee has a prescription from a doctor?
Probably not unless the state has a specific law.
@@PaulGoodchild_PHD I live in a state where it is medically legal however you can still lose your job if you fail a drug test even if you have a medical card because it is still illegal on the federal level. Once that changes to a schedule 3 then it won’t be illegal so I don’t see how you could lose your job over it at that point
@@Dylan-vp3bq I hope that is the case, but until I see the law, I’m not counting on it. Corporations want the ability to control their employees and will lobby against any such restrictions. Given our purchasable Congress and state legislatures, I don’t see them siding with medical patients.
Even if they did side with patients, I think it would be a problem for employees. The employer can argue the employee was impaired and since a test can’t tell if marijuana was used 20 minutes ago or a month, it’s going to be hard to fight it. Especially, if the employee made a mistake.
Now ban tomacco/booze. #refer madness
Refer to what exactly?
Opportunity act??
Long over due & still no where near sane…. Desolve the DEA & the FBI. As they are both products of ignorant prohibition laws.
You have any replacements for them in mind or just dissolve?
@@Ramesh98575 yes the conundrum of what they all become. As we saw in Iraq, when you fire all the cops, they become isis. I have an entire playlist on how to fix all this. Its called a resource based economeny. The problem with this lawyer/law based system is that it is corruptable & corrupted.
U know he smokes this substance
Lol! Just like members of Congress and have alcohol stashed and a bar.
@@drsmetal2747I have a mini bar at the house. And I’m down for smoking again if they made sure it’s good and clean. People were lacing it in my area so I stopped. I’ve gotten pcp and Amphetamines in my leaf before
Narcan… and fenteeee it’s all about the other classification.
Some are medicos grade tho
Hey we finnaly hear from SENATOR schumer who has been incredibly quiet thru Jews being attacked on NY college Campuses in his city. His first appearance in weeks and its to grab the mike for Marijuana. When fellows Jews were being threatened he said Nothing. God comes 2nd to politics for Sen. Schumer.
🚩🚩🚩😎
Chuck is like the bad eggs in the back of the refrigerator that nobody ever seems to get rid of and everyone who opens said fridge is gaslighted into thinking they will get around to it later. (Voting out) Of politicians that is 😂🤦♂️
This is Schumer trying to go after the young voter. He said he would change the world. He is doing it through our youth so they stay dumb and dependent on a demoncrat government so all his new illegals can get high while collecting benefits, just the way China wants it. It’s the dem plan. Like the Russian revolution, Schumer wants to have Marxism.
Finally!!!!
Wow he came out of hiding.
The man who is most responsible for getting legislation passed in the Senate applauds something he should have fixed years ago. He’s just as guilty for the do nothing Senate.
Make sure all Cannabis convictions are overturned and expunged no matter the year!! Immediately release those convicted of Mary Jane 🚬 possession !!! Thank you
Changing to schedule 3 only helps pharmaceutical companies to be able to prescribe. It will not get people out of jail, help banking and loans for farms/dispensaries, or stop police searches just for the thought of weed.
This is what he is talking about today? What about the antisemitic protests and takeovers. Is he so very desperate for votes?
California went legal decades ago and taxed it. We had a few problems in the beginning but things settled down. Now I’m trying to sell my townhouse in Florida. This state is still in the 50’s!
1903 actually, which is when do¢tor John Warnock documented his own confusion over the effects vs those of alcohol: ‘Insanity from Hasheesh’. N.B.: this director of an asylum for “lunatics” depended on a translator just to get feedback from his patients, he could never find time to learn their native language…
Very bad mistake
how so?
Great…. still not voting for Biden
Worker for the devil. That’s all he is.
Yeah Chuck. If only you were in a position to do something before now. 🙄
An enabler, doesn’t fix the problem just enhances it.Democrapic stupidity
We need more protection. Remove THC from job drug testing.
it will be protected if you have a prescription if its reclassified.
That is so backwards
Right it’s just like alcohol they don’t drug test for that
Some do. I know of truck drivers that have failed a multi panel when they drank the night before taking the test. @@anthonynavarro6865
So the lawyers want you inebriated so you cant see what they’re upto or doing now. Wow, how low can you go. Hear, have a drink of bourbon with that joint brother. Yeah, did you hear that you lost your first amendment right ? Dude… really, hahahah is there a tocobell near ?
Ge the picture!
Good news, so the weed market is going to do the opposite and plummet.
Its much easier and cheaper to take it off the schedule list, otherwise its the same bs imo.
If weed is schedule 3 then alcohol and tobacco should be scheduled 1.
reclassified marijuana now!!!!!!!! what is the hold up
BROKEN SYSTEM
Wake up America
Guess when it shall be about time to finally consider REPAIR of past abuse by the political cla$$ and many friend$…
They’re trying hard to make Americans dumb and controllable as possible.
If chuck shumer is saying weed is cool then i quit!!!
Go cry into your Confederate flag.
It’s not about the drug, it’s about keeping the sheep stoned, this administration figured out if the fools were dumb enough to vote for this president last time, it’ll be easier to Fool em again if they keep em stoned, way easier to herd the sheep if always stoned, brilliant, the Democrats will do anything to trick the sheep, lie , spend, cheat, look at this country, open your eyes, all of this wasn’t happening 4 yrs ago now was it, this administration is bankrupting this country and now they want you to keep stoned, unbelievable, have you ever thought why your taxes , food, open boarders inflation economy are all over priced?? Wake up or put your shackles on head for the box cars
Still manipulating.
Shut down illegal weed farms owned by Ch, on OUR SOIL.
Is THIS what the priority is in OUR w.h. SMH.
keep them high, obese and uneducated. Second SMH.
Make tenn. Leagalize or at least let veterans drive to missouri or illinois without getting in trouble im sick of seeing people smoke and my TBI cant smoke leagally in tenn i should be able to sue its crazy
Amazing how a Democrat is pushing for the continued breakdown of America. He does this wearing an American flag pin. When they did this in Colorado, the street seller of pot began a war among themselves. The aquafers loaded up with pot growers planting themselves over them and drilling wells for the water. The users began to fill up the city parks and make them more dangerous. Colorado became less safe.
While he sends Money to Other countrys
Stop locking up sober people who possess firearms and weed at the same time in legal states as long as their sober simple possession should not ruin their lives during a traffic stop
Getting this fossil outta here is long overdue!
PEOPLE READ THIS!!!!…. THE REASON WHY THEY ARE DECRIMINALIZING MARIJUANA IS TO GET EVERYBODY HOOKED ON IT. YOU’LL BE EITHER JAILED OR YOU’LL HAVE TO PAY BIG FINES AND THOSE FINES WILL BE USED TO PAY BACK LET JOE BIDEN HAS BEEN SPENDING IN CONGRESS.
This is proof how out of touch our government is with its citizens. Countless lives ruined in the name of justice. An American legacy of disconnect and late arrivals. Or voices should be heard. Declassify cannabis entirely.
It’s DOA in the Republican congress.
Pretty sure that it’s already passed the House (which is what Republicans have control of).
Throw the sheep a bone 😂😂 ……Election year trinkets and 🐂💩……
Ifalcoholandgaymarrageislegalisedwhynotmarijuanatheothertwoareamilliontimesworsethanmarijuana
Good. Good. I’ve been saying these things for years. It’s time to end Cannabis prohibition. It seems the government is finally starting to realize how silly the prohibition of cannabis is compared to things like cigarettes and alcohol.
Weed should be 100 percent legal anyway. Alcohol is way more dangerous but its completely legal and so should be weed