GOP - Congress Historic Ganja Vote :DEA POWERS STRIPPED!

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House Blocks DEA From Targeting Medical Marijuana
Posted: 05/30/2014 12:24 am EDT Updated: 3 hours ago Print Article

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WASHINGTON -- Reflecting growing national acceptance of cannabis, a bipartisan coalition of House members voted early Friday to restrict the Drug Enforcement Administration from using funds to go after medical marijuana operations that are legal under state laws.

An appropriations amendment offered by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) prohibiting the DEA from spending funds to arrest state-licensed medical marijuana patients and providers passed 219-189. The Senate will likely consider its own appropriations bill for the DEA, and the House amendment would have to survive a joint conference before it could go into effect.

Rohrabacher said on the House floor that the amendment "should be a no-brainer" for conservatives who support states' rights and argued passionately against allowing the federal government to interfere with a doctor-patient relationship.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5414679.html

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New York May Finally Be Serious About Legalizing Medical Marijuana
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By Matt Taylor

May 30, 2014 | 8:25 am
This article originally appeared on VICE.

New Yorkers think of themselves as the most socially tolerant, forward-thinking people on Earth, but when it comes to marijuana laws, the Empire State is running decades behind schedule. The pernicious Rockefeller Drug Laws that imposed brutal mandatory minimum prison sentences for traffickers, passed during the white-panic days of the 1970s, weren't repealed until 2009. Stop-and-frisk policies embraced by the New York Police Department have made New York City the world capital of racially biased weed arrests—and even though new mayor Bill de Blasio campaigned against the city's clampdown on black and brown pot smokers,very little has changed since he took office.

On Tuesday, the State Assembly in Albany easily passed a bill that would establish a "seed to sale" regime of medical marijuana in New York. It's the fifth time the Assembly has passed some kind of pot decriminalization measure in the past seven years only to see it die each time in the Senate. Medical marijuana would not solve the glaring problem of young black and Hispanic men being singled out for arrest by reactionary cops, but legalization advocates will take what they can get. So is New York actually ready to take the leap into the 21st century, where pot isn't all that big of a deal and in fact might benefit everyone from cancer and AIDS patients to veterans suffering from PTSD?

https://news.vice.com/article/new-yo...ical-marijuana

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Already, businesses in weed-friendly Colorado are lobbying in Albany for access to New York's massive market, and the party that claims to champion entrepreneurs could have a hard time justifying a policy that lets all that investment and potential tax revenue go elsewhere. Also changing the debate has been outrage at the scourge of prescription-drug and opiate addiction among white youth in the Northeast, which has made the war on drugs suddenly relevant to a wider swath of the political class than ever before. In the same vein, it doesn't hurt the cause that Hudson Valley Republican Assemblyman Steve Katz, who was arrested for speeding while in possession of a small bag of marijuana last year, is now a fierce advocate for decriminalization and the financial promise of a local pot industry.

https://news.vice.com/article/new-yo...ical-marijuana


I have always said it , legalization of ganja turned because of three things.

* The Recession in 08 - States cut back on the billion dollar prison industry.
* The war on drugs (ganja) criminalizing white youth.
* Wall street sees the money.

Basically its all about the $ocial cost of criminalization, it cant be justified in any sense.Jamaica cant see this. Instead you have idiots saying it helps to keep track of lazie dutty garrison boys i.e criminals in Jamaica.


Hypocrisy !Jamaica can tan deh.