Leading U.S. Senate Democrats reintroduced a bill Wednesday to remove marijuana from the list of federal controlled substances, following the Biden administration’s move a day earlier to significantly ease regulations on the drug. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, Senate Finance Chairman Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, […] The post U.S. Senate Dems launch renewed push for full marijuana legalization appeared first on New Jersey Monitor.
Byrum Gibson and Claude Chambers, prior to Repeal, were indicted in North Carolina for conspiracy to violate the Volstead Act. Both had been convicted of…
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More than 50 years after the so-called “war on drugs” ravaged Black and brown communities, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is hopeful that a bipartisan bill that would give the cannabis industry access to banking services can bring some restitution to the communities most negatively impacted and create a pathway to make cannabis federally legal.
In a wrong-headed move last week, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Damian Williams threatened enforcement action against the two Upper Manhattan overdose prevention centers run by nonprofit OnPoint, which provide space for drug users to test and use drugs under supervision of trained personnel. Explaining that the centers run afoul of the so-called crack house statute, Williams wrote that he was “an .