what is going on and what ca be done to stop this then the presidential campaign losing steam before it has officially started ron desantis already feeling the heat in his own backyard and it is one of the few issue the majority of americans agre on what will it take for federa marijuana legislation? we are breaking it all down on of course, for 20, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night good evening once again i stephanie ruhle. it s a question we ask on this program every time that we report on the latest outbrea of gun violence. when are we going to d something to solve for thi uniquely american problem. that question has become eve more urgent over the last week one where we have seen a alarming series of shootings involving people who mad simple mistakes, just doin stuff we do every single day but they were met with bullets the latest in north carolina late yesterday a man allegedly fired at his neighbors after a basketball rolled into his yard six-year-o
neighbor s yard. the latest in a week of wron place wrong time shootings what is going on and what ca be done to stop this then the presidential campaign losing steam before it has officially started ron desantis already feeling the heat in his own backyard and it is one of the few issue the majority of americans agre on what will it take for federa marijuana legislation? we are breaking it all down on of course, for 20, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night good evening once again i stephanie ruhle. it s a question we ask on this program every time that we report on the latest outbrea of gun violence. when are we going to d something to solve for thi uniquely american problem. that question has become eve more urgent over the last week one where we have seen a alarming series of shootings involving people who mad simple mistakes, just doin stuff we do every single day but they were met with bullets the latest in north carolina late yesterday a man allegedly
don t think you should hav some kind of criminal yourself from use of marijuana. even if people don t want to smoke, it they don t necessarily want to see you go to jail. i do think that everything tha needs to happen now, yes decriminalization, and the scheduling iconic actor, longtim cannabis advocate wood haralson on marijuana reform you heard him talk about the push to de-schedule-y drug entirely, that would remove it from the controlled substances act, making a federally legal. of course, today is known as 4:20, the unofficial cannabi holiday. 21 states have legalized recreational pot, ten others have decriminalized it for now, it is still classifie as a schedule one drug federally, meaning it is
dollars off the legalization o it in certain states is there enough political will to at the very least expunge the criminal records fro cannabis related offenses? well for starters, th federal government canno expunge state records, and the majority of people who hav been put in prison or have arrest records for cannabi related crimes are at stat level. what the federal governmen wanted to propose out there is to give states money so that i there is an expungement program, the state wants to put forward and it is going to cost people paperwork money, or cost the state they will have to hire people to go through and expunge these records, the would have some funding help from the federal government to do those things. where the federal government really might move in thi congress, though is on tha save making actually mentioned and that is where they might attach that bill which i called the hope act. it is sponsored by -
is there enough political will to at the very least expunge the criminal records fro cannabis related offenses? well for starters, th federal government canno expunge state records, and the majority of people who hav been put in prison or have arrest records for cannabi related crimes are at stat level. what the federal governmen wanted to propose out there is to give states money so that i there is an expungement program, the state wants to put forward and it is going to cost people paperwork money, or cost the state they will have to hire people to go through and expunge these records, the would have some funding help from the federal government to do those things. where the federal government really might move in thi congress, though is on tha save making actually mentioned and that is where they might attach that bill which i called the hope act. it is sponsored by - alexandria ocasio-cortez, an they would attach that potentially to that bill and passed that. this congress, they