Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Effectively End The Federal War On Medical Marijuana

Bipartisan Senate Bill Would Effectively End The Federal War On Medical Marijuana

A new senate bill could effectively end the federal war on medical marijuana.  Making things more interesting, it has bi-partisan support:

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The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act, introduced by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), seeks to drastically reduce the federal government’s ability to crack down on state-legal medical marijuana programs and encourage more research into the plant through several major changes in federal law.

“This bill that we are introducing seeks to right decades of wrong,” Booker said Tuesday. “Doctors and patients deserve federal laws that are fair and compassionate, and states should be able to set their own medical marijuana policies without federal interference. I am thankful to Senators Gillibrand and Paul as well as the Drug Policy Alliance for their hard work on this common-sense bill to make medical marijuana accessible to the millions of Americans who could benefit from it.”

The Senators were joined by patients and their family members who have been helped by medical marijuana.  By reclassifying the drug, it would not make it legal, but however could ease restrictions when it comes to research.  So stoners, don’t get too excited just yet.

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