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Weed keeps winning By Ngaio Bealum
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Hey! Happy Holidays and all that stuff. Got any predictions for the new year?
from the list of Schedule 1 drugs, which would be defacto decriminalization, because the Drug Enforcement Administration would no longer need to go after people for using or selling cannabis. Internationally, Mexico is once again (but seriously, this time) about to legalize adult-use cannabis. The Mexican Supreme I’m glad you asked. Cannabis is still Court has set a Dec. 15 deadline for its winning. In the November election, Arizona, congress to pass a law. Mexico would join New Jersey, Mississippi, Montana and South Canada and Uruguay as the only countries Dakota voted to legalize cannabis. You heard to have nationwide legal weed. me: Montana and South Dakota. Wild. Oh, and before any International policy But my guess is that weed is gonna wonks start to chime in with “BUT THE be even more legal all across the country UNITED NATIONS SAYS THAT WEED by 2022. A few things will need to IS BAD AND LEGALIZATION happen. WOULD VIOLATE First, the feds will have INTERNATIONAL LAW,” On to decriminalize. On Dec. let it be known that the 4, the U.S. House passed December 4, U.N. Commission on the MORE Act, which Narcotic Drugs just the U.S. House passed would decriminalize voted to remove the MORE Act, which cannabis, let people cannabis from its list out of jail and expunge would decriminalize of dangerous criminal records. It’s narcotics, clearing cannabis, let people out the first time a chamber the way for more of Congress has taken of jail and expunge countries to legalize such a vote. without jeopardizing any criminal records. The bill would also international treaties. (As add a federal cannabis sales if pot was even a narcotic to tax, which would make begin with. Cannabis is really cannabis even more expensive, more of a mild euphoric.) but let’s not worry about that yet. So weed stays winning. A COVID-19 Keeping people out of jail is the number one vaccine is on the way, and by this time priority. next year you could be on a nationwide or Of course, the MORE Act isn’t going to international cannabis tasting vacation. Stay see the light of day in the Senate before the safe, wear a mask, wash your hands, don’t current session ends, because Majority Leader share joints and have a great holiday season Mitch McConnell is a good-for-nothing and a happy new year. Ω obstructionist. By the way, it’s funny that 95% of congressional Republicans, who always claim they want small government and more personal liberty, voted against a law designed to give people more freedom. But anyway, if the good people of Georgia vote Jan. 5 to send two Democrats to the Senate, McConnell would no longer be in Ngaio Bealum is a Sacramento comedian, activist and marijuana expert. Email him charge, and legalization via the MORE Act questions at ask420@newsreview.com. could be on the horizon. Failing that, when he takes office, President-elect Joe Biden could issue an executive order removing cannabis
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