State Senator Mike Bohacek is officially moving forward with plans to legalize medical marijuana in Indiana.
The Michiana Shores Republican says he is drafting legislation for the 2027 session that would create a regulated system for Hoosiers to access the drug for medical disorders.
The move follows the federal government’s recent reclassification of marijuana to a Schedule Three substance.
Bohacek says the bill will not legalize recreational use, but it would establish a tax policy to generate millions in revenue and update state laws to help police identify drug impairment on the road.
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Cannabis should be absolutely just as legal and easy to obtain anywhere as alcohol currently is. No exceptions. It’s so easy: As legal and easy to obtain/use as alcohol currently is. Why hold relatively benign, often healing cannabis to any sort of irrational, stricter double standard than perfectly legal alcohol?
Legalize relatively benign recreational cannabis federally now. What’s legal to possess and consume in over half of the populated areas of The United States should not make you a criminal in states still being governed by woefully ignorant prohibitionist politicians. Cannabis consumers in all states deserve and demand equal rights and protections under our laws that are currently afforded to the drinkers of far more dangerous and deadly, yet perfectly legal, widely accepted, endlessly advertised and even glorified as an All-American pastime, alcohol. Plain and simple! Legalize Nationwide Federally Now!
The “War on Cannabis” has been a complete and utter failure. It is the largest component of the broader yet equally unsuccessful “War on Drugs” that has cost our country over two trillion dollars.
Instead of The United States wasting Billions upon Billions more of our yearly tax dollars fighting a never ending “War on Cannabis”, lets generate Billions of dollars, and improve the deficit instead. It’s a no brainer.
The Prohibition of Cannabis has also ruined the lives of many of our loved ones. In numbers greater than any other nation, our loved ones are being sent to jail and are being given permanent criminal records. Especially, if they happen to be of the “wrong” skin color or they happen to be from the “wrong” neighborhood. Which ruin their chances of employment for the rest of their lives, and for what reason?
Cannabis is much safer to consume than alcohol. Yet do we lock people up for choosing to drink?
Let’s end this hypocrisy now!
The government should never attempt to legislate morality by creating victim-less cannabis “crimes” because it simply does not work and costs the taxpayers a fortune.
Cannabis Legalization Nationwide is an inevitable reality that’s approaching much sooner than prohibitionists think and there is nothing they can do to stop it!
Legalize Nationwide Federally Now! Support Each and Every Cannabis Legalization Initiative!
Banning marijuana is no different than Bloomberg banning 16oz sodas or the diet nannies trying to ban candy bars.
Trying to raise money from pot is not good because “sin” taxes are abhorrent. The tax code should be there to generate revenue, not to control behavior or to excuse bad ones. It’s no different than revenue-based policing.
It should be legal because the government has no right to make it illegal, not as a cash cow to prop up failing fiscal policies.
The tax code is a mystical miasma of confusion meant to prick you from a thousand different ways to bleed you dry so other people can spend your money. This is just another pin prick in the process.