In a letter to President Joe Biden (D), the Marijuana Justice Coalition and Hashish Freedom Alliance stated that the administration’s plans to maneuver hashish from Schedule I to Schedule III below the Managed Substances Act “would merely preserve federal criminalization” of state-approved medical and adult-use hashish applications, calling as an alternative for full descheduling below federal regulation.
“Presently, the hashish market is regulated by 48 states by way of numerous regulatory programs. In our federal system, these laboratories of democracy shouldn’t be impeded of their improvement of efficient measures to make sure public security and promote public well being. Any motion to maneuver marijuana to a different CSA schedule relatively than eradicating it could merely preserve federal criminalization of those applications, licensed corporations, and people working in a totally authorized method below present state guidelines and laws. Additional, this mere change of scheduling classification versus descheduling wouldn’t alleviate present mistrust in regulation enforcement round hashish given the supermajority public help for ending criminalization.” — Marijuana Justice Coalition, Hashish Freedom Alliance within the November 2 letter
The letter notes that, in accordance with Federal Bureau of Investigation knowledge, practically 250,000 people had been arrested nationwide for cannabis-related crimes in 2021 and that Black folks had been arrested at thrice the speed of their white counterparts, regardless of comparable charges of hashish use.
“Individuals arrested for marijuana usually face extreme penalties, together with months of jail or jail time and hundreds of {dollars} in fines,” the letter states. “Incarceration or an arrest creates boundaries to securing gainful employment, training, and housing alternatives.”
The letter urges Biden to make use of his affect in Congress to go complete hashish descheduling laws “that features a well-thought-out plan for cheap federal regulation and for implementing interstate commerce that protects public well being and the power for small companies to thrive within the rising authorized market.”
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