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Today 5:18 a.m. 7:53 p.m. Wednesday 5:50 a.m. 9:12 p.m. particular, to acknowledge publicly for the time what many patients and advocates have known for decades: that cannabis is a safe and therapeutic agent for tens of millions of said Paul Armentano, deputy director of the National Or- ganization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, the oldest marijuana legalization advocacy group.
cannabis plant should be re- moved from the Controlled Sub- stances Act altogether, thereby pro- viding state governments rather than the federal government the ability to regulate marijuana in the manner they see without violating federal law, and allowing the federal government to provide standards and guidelines for regulated cannabis Ar- mentano said. Once the DEA moves to re- schedule marijuana, it will open a 60- day public comment period before the White House of Management and Budget makes the determi- nation. Under the Controlled Substances Act, Schedule III drugs are substances determined to have medicinal value with a low to moderate potential for addiction, such as ketamine, testos- terone, anabolic steroids or Tylenol with codeine. Cannabis has been list- ed as a Schedule I drug for 54 years, designated as having no medicinal value and a high potential for addic- tion and treated on the same basis as heroin, LSD and ecstasy. As medical marijuana programs took in 37 states over the last 30 years, the federal posi- tion that cannabis had no medicinal value became harder and harder to de- fend.
Calls for federal change have only heightened in the last 10 years as 24 states, including New Jersey, passed laws legalizing weed for recre- ational use, leading to billions in sales and the birth of a new industry. While move to reschedule cannabis has been welcomed in most progressive circles, longtime marijua- na legalization advocates have framed the decision as more of a symbolic step. Organizations like NORML have instead called for Biden to completely cannabis removing it from the Controlled Substances Act completely. Such a move would treat cannabis like alcohol or tobacco, subject to fed- eral and state regulation and taxation. Even as a Schedule III drug, arrests in states that legalized weed could continue.
In January, a group of 10 senators including Sen. Cory Booker, called for descheduling as a way to lieve the burden of current federal marijuana policy on ordinary people and small in a letter to At- torney General Merrick Garland and DEA Administrator Anne Milgram. underwhelmed by the progress made during President ad- ministration, I think it was fair to ex- pect said Matthew Schweich, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, which advocates for can- nabis policy reform. was absurd to consider cannabis to be more dangerous than heroin, as is the case today. It will remain absurd to consider cannabis to be more dangerous than alcohol, Xanax, and Valium, which will still be the case after this rescheduling takes That mean the decision is without It likely spells the end of placement in Section 280E of IRS tax code, which forbids business- es involved in the of Sched- ule I and Schedule II substances from deducting and business expenses from their taxes.
Under Schedule legal weed busi- nesses from cultivators to dispensar- ies were considered such businesses. Cannabis market research Whitey Economics reported that the designa- tion led to an additional $1.8 billion in federal taxes last year, expected to bal- loon to $2.1 billion this year if cannabis remained a Schedule I drug. really hard for these cannabis businesses to keep their heads above Cannabist Company senior vice president Adam Goers told the Asbury Park Press in January. at a huge competitive disadvantage against the thing they were set up to stop the traditional, illicit The hope is that removing such a burden could result in lower prices for consumers, though multistate opera- tors regularly charge prices for cannabis in states, despite fed- eral tax implications. The move to reschedule cannabis comes as talk of federal marijuana legal- ization has largely stalled out.
In recent years, Congress has come close to passing bills that would protect federally insured banks that take on cannabis clients and protect consumers and businesses in legal weed states from enforcement of federal law. But that legislation never passed and, in this congressional session, Democrats have been slow to tackle legal weed as a top- line priority. Marijuana legalization remains an immensely popular and bipartisan is- sue: A November 2023 Gallup poll re- ported that of Americans were in favor of legalizing weed, including of Democrats and of Republicans. marijuana is not a pol- icy solution for federal marijuana crimi- nalization or its harms, and it ad- dress the disproportionate impact that it has had on Black and Brown commu- said Cat Packer, director of drug markets and legal regulation at the Drug Policy Alliance, which advocates for federal drug policy reform. and the Biden Administration have a re- sponsibility to take actions now to bring about marijuana reform that meaning- fully improves the lives of people who have been harmed by decades of crimi- nalization.
and legalizing mari- juana the right way just good pol- icy, popular with voters, Mike Davis has spent the last decade covering New Jersey local news, mari- juana legalization, transportation and basically whatever else is going on at any given moment. Contact him at or Davis on Twitter. Marijuana Continued from Page 1A Today is Tuesday, May 7, the 128th day of 2024. There are 238 days left in the year. On this date in: 1763: Ottawa chief Pontiac and a coalition of tribes began a rebellion against the British.
They began a siege of British forces at Fort Detroit that lasted into Oc- tober. 1824: Ludwig van Ninth Sym- phony debuted in Vienna, Austria. The deaf composer shared the stage with conductor Michael Umlauf, both of them conducting, but the orchestra (the largest ever used by Beethoven) was instructed to ignore Beethoven and follow Umlauf. 1896: Serial killer H.H. Holmes was hanged in Philadelphia for the one murder for which he was convicted.
1915: A German submarine sank the Lusi- tania, a British ocean liner. Of the nearly 2,000 people who died, 128 were Amer- icans. The United States had so far re- mained neutral, not being drawn into World War I until 1917. 1945: Gen. Alfred Jodl signed the unconditional surrender to the Allies at Reims, France.
Another sur- render document was signed the follow- ing day in Berlin, bringing an end to the war in Europe. 1946: The Japanese company Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo was founded, later chang- ing its name to Sony. 1946: William Hastie Jr. was inaugurated as the first Black governor of the United States Virgin Islands. Hastie had previ- ously served as a U.S.
District Court judge in the American territory, and he later became a judge and senior judge in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third District. 1954: Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh forces defeated French troops at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. The battle had lasted nearly two months. Soon after their defeat at Dien Bien Phu, the French agreed to end military deployment in its colonies in French Indochina.
1963: Communications satellite Telstar 2 was launched into orbit by NASA. The satellite carried out an experiment to take measurements of the Van Allen belts and relay information to Earth in real time. 1994: A version of Edvard fam- ous painting which had been stolen Feb. 12 from a museum in Norway, was recovered. 1998: German automaker Daimler-Benz announced the acquisition of Chrysler Corporation in a $36 billion merger, cre- ating DaimlerChrysler AG.
2000: Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president. He had been acting president since December 31, 1999, when Boris Yeltsin resigned. 2019: During a school shooting at STEM School Highlands Ranch, a charter school in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, 18-year- old Kendrick Castillo was shot and killed while trying to subdue one of two shoot- ers. Eight other students were injured. Alec McKinney, 16 at the time of the shooting, pleaded guilty to 17 charges and was sentenced to life with a chance for parole after 40 years.
Devon Erickson, 18 at the time of the shooting, was con- victed of 46 charges and sentenced to life without parole plus 1,282 years. William Cain, USA TODAY Network TODAY IN HISTORY Madonna attracts 1.6M fans for free concert in Brazil More than a million people thronged Copacabana beach for a free Ma- donna concert on Saturday, braving the heat to see the end of her world tour. The sand and oceanfront boulevard around Rio de famed beach were for several blocks by a crowd the city estimated at 1.6 million. Many had been there for hours or even days to get a good spot, while richer fans anchored in dozens of boats near the beach and onlookers crowded beach- front apartments. sprayed water before the concert, when temperatures exceeded 86 degrees Fahrenheit, to cool fans gathered near the pop stage, and drinking water was distributed for free.
Temper- atures were around 81 during the late night show. Madonna, 65, performed songs such as a and for more than two hours start- ing at 10:45 p.m. as she wound up the greatest hits tour that started late last year. Music legends celebrate Queens of in Las Vegas The Queens of Tour is more than a celebration of legendary groups and women in music, also an ode to sisterhood and triumph, says renowned television producer and CEO of Mona- mi Productions Mona Scott-Young, who is spearheading the string of concerts. Scott-Young hosted a celebration dinner for the upcoming tour May 3 in Las Vegas at Fuhu restaurant, bringing out some of greatest names and trailblazers.
The event included the women of Xscape Total, SWV and 702, who are all set to hit the stage along with singer Mya starting in June. my absolute Scott-Young says. my absolute pleasure (and) privilege to have the opportunity to cre- ate platforms for these cultural mo- ments. And I believe going to be making The Queens of Tour recognizes and pays homage to girl groups and musicians of the who continue to have an impact. Of course, the genre has seen the likes of many successful units like those featured and others like TLC and Child.
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