Will Joe Biden Legalize Marijuana If It’s Sponsored By Republicans? Wednesday, 02 June 2021
If nine out of ten Americans believe that marijuana should be legal for adults and according to a Pew Research poll conducted in April, they do this begs an obvious question: Why hasn’t Congress passed federal marijuana legalization?
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The country’s closest brush with national cannabis reform was last December, when the House of Representatives for the first time approved a legalization bill with a floor vote. As expected, the milestone was symbolic: The Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement Act (or MORE Act) did not receive a hearing in then-Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate. (The fact that its sponsor was then-Senator Kamala Harris (D-California), the vice-president elect, probably didn’t help.)
Both the US Senate and President Joe Biden are reluctant to legalize cannabis federally. A Republican-sponsored marijuana law may be an acceptable compromise.
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Every two years, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the radical Democrats in the House set their sights on canceling the constitutional protections that were reasserted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the landmark Citizens United victory for free speech.
As president of Citizens United, I’ve grown accustomed to the relentless attacks on the First Amendment that come from the left and wear them as a badge of honor. Now, 11 years since Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision, the liberals are at it again and with even more ferocity.
Our 2010 Supreme Court decision defended the First Amendment’s language that states, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” These are words that Mrs. Pelosi and the radical left don’t want you to read and view as a mere inconvenience in their quest for absolute power. The Citizens United case has made it easier for Americans who aren’t Washington insiders to participate in our political proce
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