Senate Committee Passes Crucial Marijuana Reform

[trix]

Washington, D.C. -- A key Senate committee passed a bill today allowing the nation's capital to establish regulated marijuana stores and let banks provide financial services to state-legalized marijuana dispensaries. These are just two of several marijuana reforms advancing in Congress. Meanwhile sentencing reform is gaining steam, and the U.S. is shifting towards treating drug use as a health issue instead of a criminal justice issue.

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[t-pain]

does it have to be passed by the senate as a whole? the way newspaper writers write things now it sounds like its law already...

[bobandtorey]

I agree

 

Headlines sell more papers and more internet traffic  

[Wild Bill]

I believe it has just passed the committee and now needs to go to the Senate to have things twisted around and heaps of pork added.

 

If the right senators are paid off by the right lobbyists then the bill will pass the Senate vote and be sent to the House who will follow the same procedure.

 

When it passes in both legislative bodies the President will sign the bill into law, provided he gets a cut of the proceeds.