Let the states decide their own marijuana policies
Lawmakers for the first time have introduced legislation in Congress to end the federal criminalization of the personal use of marijuana
The Hill (US web)
Wednesday, June 28, 2011
Wednesday, June 28, 2011
The bipartisan measure -- H.R. 2306, the 'Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011' and sponsored by Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank and Texas Republican Ron Paul prohibits the federal government from prosecuting adults who use or possess personal use amounts of marijuana by removing the plant and its primary psychoactive constituent, THC, from the five schedules of the United States Controlled Substances Act of 1970.
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