Rep. Earl Blumenauer Calls For End To Federal Marijuana Prohibition
Thursday, October 22, 2015
As GoLocal reported, Oregon recently began retail sales of recreational marijuana, but the drug is still illegal under federal law. Members of Oregon’s marijuana industry are currently in Washington DC, fighting for changes to the country’s laws and regulations regarding cannabis.
“Theirs is a positive story of economic opportunity, product development, tax revenues, more freedom for individuals, and eliminating the racial disparities in the enforcement of a failed policy of prohibition that comes down heavily against young men of color – especially African Americans,” Blumenauer said.
In his speech, Blumenauer said that the federal government should “stop interfering” in the marijuana industry.
“Let legal marijuana businesses have bank accounts. Don’t force them to be all cash. Let them deduct their business expenses from their taxes instead of penalizing them with grotesquely punitive levels of tax. Let the states continue in their efforts at reform. Let them treat it just like we do alcohol,” Blumenauer said.
“The day is fast coming when the federal policy will be to robustly research, and ultimately deschedule – or remove – marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, no longer pretending that it is or should be a Schedule 1 controlled substance, and instead tax and regulate it at the federal level.”
View Blumenauer’s full speech below:
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