A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address “the glaring vagueness” that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country …

A coalition of 22 state attorneys general is calling on Congress to address “the glaring vagueness” that has led to legal cannabis products being sold over the counter across the country — including sometimes from vending machines or online.

A letter dated March 20 addresses the consequences of Republican lawmakers’ choice to legalize hemp production in the 2018 omnibus Farm Bill — a decision that perhaps inadvertently led to a multibillion-dollar market in intoxicating cannabis products that are arguably federally legal.

Now, the attorneys general want Congress to shutter the market it helped create. In the new Farm Bill, they want the legislature to enshrine in statute the idea that intoxicating cannabis is not federally legal — contrary to what the law currently states.

  • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    3 months ago

    And then the next time there’s a Republican president they make it illegal again and you get to bitch and moan about how it’s all the Democrats’ fault for not doing more to protect it.

    Just like what happened with abortion.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      91·
      3 months ago

      I love that one. There were no times that Obama or Biden would have been able to codify abortion into law. They needed congress. Obama had anti-choice Democrats in the Senate like Joe Donnelly and Biden has had Manchin and Sinema working against him since January of 2020.

      But somehow Obama or Biden were supposed to magically make abortion access the law.

      This is why people are okay with Trump being a dictator. They think the president is already a dictator.

      • limelight79
        2·
        3 months ago

        And even if it was a law, it would have been repealed during the first two years of the Trump presidency when the R’s had both the house and the senate.