Blog Post 1.2 "Marijuana Law Issues"

1) More than a quarter of the U.S. population lives in a state with access to legal marijuana.

2)Colorado and Washington state were the first places to make marijuana fully legal.

3) There are different variations in how much cannabis someone can legally posses. Outside states have stricter limits. The amount of growing marijuana is limited. In Vermont and D.C., they do not allow for marijuana sales, but they do allow residents to legally grow marijuana. The residents just aren't allowed to buy or sell pot.

4) Marijuana legalization is used to represent the removal of all government-enforced penalties for possessing and using marijuana. Legalization also paves the way for the legal sales and home-growing of marijuana.
Marijuana decriminalization is like limiting the punishment of marijuana users. It eliminates jail time of marijuana, but some other penalties remain in place, treating a minor marijuana offense more like a traffic violation. It all depends if you are a minor or not. 

5) ALCU says that marijuana is bad for the company because when people get arrested for marijuana, the arrests cost law enforcements' time and money, and also affects the government's credibility.

6) Big Marijuana corporations would be dangerous because it will lead them to market aggressively to heavy pot user, who many have a drug problem like e-cigarettes, alcoholics, and tobacco users.

7) Public support for marijuana legalization has increased greatly. The support of legalization rose from 31% (2000) to 66% (2018). More people want marijuana legal. Americans want more than recreational use of marijuana; they want less harsh punishments for its use.

8) The Federal government considers marijuana illegal. Marijuana is considered a schedule 1 drug, meaning that it has no medical value and a high potential for abuse. It may be in the same category as heroin, but the government knows the big differences between the two. They have a high potential for abuse.

9) The Obama administration has taken a more relaxed approach to marijuana legalization at the sate level. They are letting states do as they wish as long as they meet certain criteria. The Trump administration said it would take a tougher line, but current Attorney General William Barr backed off the tougher approach and he would more or less go back to the Obama-era policies.

10) They are operating in cash and not banks because many banks are nervous breaking the federal law. Businesses also can't file for several deductions, so as a result, their effective income tax rates can soar to as high as 90% or more.  

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