- SwampDonkey
- Oct 13, 2006
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by Smythe(and can't post for 4 years!)
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If you're growing indoors, you shouldn't have much need for pesticides or herbicides, should you? Even outdoors, I would think that with a dozen or fewer plants to care for, you could find some way to avoid the need for chemicals (though I don't know that much about gardening, least of all cannabis).
Yes, especially when dealing with clones from outside sources. Though a lot of the solutions are natural, rosemary oil/extract for example.
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- SwampDonkey
- Oct 13, 2006
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by Smythe(and can't post for 4 years!)
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quote:A bipartisan group of federal lawmakers launched the Congressional Cannabis Caucus in a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday afternoon. Republican congressmen Dana Rohrabacher (California) and Don Young (Alaska) joined Democrats Earl Blumenauer (Oregon) and Jared Polis (Colorado) to launch the new group. They are dedicated to developing policy reforms that can bridge the gap that currently exists between federal laws banning marijuana and the laws in an ever-growing number of states that have legalized it for medical or recreational purposes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlDcyB5VCe0
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Feb 17, 2017 10:45
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- SwampDonkey
- Oct 13, 2006
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by Smythe(and can't post for 4 years!)
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More details for those that didn't watch the press briefing.
quote:During a White House briefing Thursday, press secretary Sean Spicer told reporters that “I do believe that you’ll see greater enforcement” of federal drug laws prohibiting use of recreational marijuana during the Trump administration. But medical marijuana is a different question, Spicer said, noting that states with medical marijuana laws were protected from federal interference by a congressional budget rider passed in 2014.
Spicer's comments are the strongest suggestion yet that the Trump administration will take more of a hard line approach to marijuana enforcement than the Obama administration. Under Obama, the Justice Department explicitly adopted a policy of noninterference with state marijuana laws, provided that a number of guidelines — like keeping marijuana out of the hands of adolescents — were met. That unofficial policy was established by a 2013 memo, which the Justice Department under the Trump administration can easily ignore. However, the administration is bound by legislation passed in 2014 prohibiting use of Justice Department funds to impede medical marijuana laws in the 28 states that have legalized it and D.C.
Seven states and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana.
The comments come on the same day a Quinnipiac poll shows that 71 percent of American voters — including 55 percent of Republicans — say that they oppose “the government enforcing federal laws against marijuana in states that have already legalized medical or recreational marijuana.” That poll, which surveyed 1,323 voters nationwide last week, also showed that 59 percent of voters say they support fully legalizing the use of marijuana in the United States, and that 93 percent of voters support the medical use of marijuana under a doctor's supervision.
At the news briefing, Spicer appeared to tie the question of recreational marijuana use to concerns about the nation's opioid epidemic.
“When you see something like the opioid addiction crisis blossoming in so many states around this country,” Spicer said, “the last thing we should be doing is encouraging people — there's a federal law that we need to abide by when it comes to recreational marijuana and other drugs of that nature.”
Researchers have consistently found that access to medical marijuana is associated with lower rates of opioid abuse and mortality. A similar relationship may exist between recreational marijuana and opioid use, although not as much research has been done on that front.
“Spicer has it exactly backwards,” said Ethan Nadelmann of the drug policy reform group Drug Policy Alliance in a statement. “Greater access to marijuana has actually led to declines in opioid use, overdoses and other problems.”
“Trump seems insistent on throwing the marijuana market back into the hands of criminals, wiping out taxpaying jobs and eliminating billions of dollars in taxes,” Nadelmann added.
Legal marijuana, recreational and medical, was a $1.3 billion industry in Colorado in 2016. Independent consultants estimated the industry supported 18,000 new jobs in the state in 2015.
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Feb 24, 2017 00:22
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- SwampDonkey
- Oct 13, 2006
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by Smythe(and can't post for 4 years!)
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Latest from Sessions on cannabis:
quote:*He repeated his disdain for drugs, including marijuana. "I don't think America is going to be a better place when more people are smoking pot," he said. Sessions said he was studying an Obama-era memo that sets out priorities for federal prosecution in states which have legalized the drug in some form. The attorney general said he met Monday with his counterpart in the state of Nebraska, who expressed concerns about a "big overflow" of marijuana from Colorado, where the drug is legal. "I'm definitely not a fan of expanded use of marijuana," he said.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/27/517583304/attorney-general-jeff-session-focuses-on-violent-crime-and-police-morale
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Feb 28, 2017 00:46
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- SwampDonkey
- Oct 13, 2006
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by Smythe(and can't post for 4 years!)
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quote:Two Oregon lawmakers plan to introduce an ambitious marijuana law reform package in Congress Thursday, proposing a raft changes that could wipe away thousands of pot-related criminal convictions and make life much easier for everyone involved in the legal weed business.
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, both Democrats from a state that has legalized recreational marijuana, dubbed their joint proposal the “Path to Marijuana Reform,” and it reads like a wish list for drug policy geeks.
The catch, of course, is that Republicans control both houses of Congress, and social conservatives will almost certainly fight against the legislation. Recent polling shows 59 percent of all U.S. voters support marijuana legalization, but the majority of GOP constituents are still opposed.
There are three bills altogether. One deals specifically with tax issues related to the marijuana industry; another includes a variety of far-reaching reforms, such as easing restrictions on banking and medical research; and the third calls for descheduling marijuana, which would treat the drug like alcohol or tobacco under federal law, instead of like heroin.
Here’s a quick breakdown of what’s included in the bills. (The full text of all three is in a PDF at the end of this story.)
• Taxes
The Small Business Tax Equity Act would change the tax code “to allow businesses operating in compliance with state law to claim deductions and credits associated with the sale of marijuana like any other legal business.” The IRS currently treats state-sanctioned pot retailers like illicit drug traffickers, forcing them to pay exorbitant taxes.
• Descheduling
The Marijuana Revenue And Regulation Act would remove cannabis from the list of drugs federally outlawed by the Controlled Substances Act. Currently, weed is listed in the Schedule I category, which is reserved for the most dangerous types of drugs.
States could still choose to outlaw marijuana and there would be “strict rules and penalties” for illegal transportation of pot across state lines, but federal descheduling would dramatically reshape the legal landscape for marijuana, essentially legalizing and taxing it like booze or cigarettes. The proposal would also create rules for advertising, packaging, and labeling pot products.
• State Protections
There’s a lot to unpack in the Responsibly Addressing The Marijuana Policy Gap Act, but most importantly the bill would “exempt any person acting in compliance with state marijuana law from criminal penalties” under the Controlled Substances Act. Basically, this change would prevent the feds from arresting or prosecuting anyone who abides by state rules.
• Criminal Records
The Policy Gap Act also calls for giving certain federal marijuana offenders a clean slate. The bill would create an “expungement process” for people who were busted by federal authorities for possessing less than an ounce of pot or for any “activity that was state legal at the time of offense.”
• Banking
Most banks currently refuse to do business with marijuana-related businesses for fear of repercussions from federal regulators and law enforcement, but the bill would create a range of safeguards and do away with some red tape. This is a key issue for the marijuana industry, which has been forced to deal almost entirely in cash.
The bill would also allow failed pot businesses to declare bankruptcy, something they are not currently allowed to do under federal law.
• Drug Testing and Other “Individual Protections”
The federal government would no longer be able to use marijuana drug tests to block people from states with legal weed from applying for certain federal jobs. It would also allow some marijuana offenders to receive federal financial aid and live in federally assisted public housing; make certain weed-related crimes non-deportable offenses for undocumented immigrants; and do away with civil forfeiture for marijuana, which allows the feds to seize cash and property from people even if they haven’t been charged with a crime.
• Medical Marijuana
Health care workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs would be allowed to “provide recommendations and opinions” about medical marijuana. It would also be much easier for scientists to study the medical benefits of weed by “creating a new registration process specifically for medical marijuana that will reduce approval wait times, costly security measures, and unnecessary layers of protocol review.”
In a statement announcing the proposal, Wyden and Blumenauer noted that more than 20 percent of all Americans live in the eight states that allow adults to use marijuana, and 95 percent of country has access to some form of legal weed via medical marijuana laws. They also cited research that projects the pot industry will create nearly 300,000 jobs by 2020.
Wyden said his “three-step approach” will “spur job growth and boost our economy,” while Blumenauer, who represents much of Portland, lamented that “too many people are trapped between federal and state laws.”
The duo is set to discuss the proposal in detail Wednesday, and a spokesperson for Wyden, who has been one of the Trump administration’s most outspoken critics in the Senate, said he plans to address likely opposition from the Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Earlier this month, Sessions said he rejects “the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store,” and that he thinks weed is only “slightly less awful” than heroin. Wyden’s spokesperson said the senator plans to argue that Sessions “seems to favor states’ rights only when he thinks the state is right.”
President Donald Trump vowed on the campaign trail to respect state decisions on marijuana legalization, and Sessions has said he plans to keep Obama-era marijuana enforcement guidelines in place for the time being. But without changes to federal law like the ones proposed by Wyden and Blumenauer, Sessions and Trump have the power to reverse that decision and crack down on legal weed whenever they want.
https://news.vice.com/story/a-3-part-plan-to-fix-legal-weed-in-the-u-s-was-just-unveiled-by-two-oregon-lawmakers
https://www.scribd.com/document/343453045/Wyden-and-Blumenauer-s-Path-to-Marijuana-Reform?secret_password=IBd6RLXj5tvW1P5nGJo1#from_embed
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