Republican Examine Committee (RSC)—a 156-member GOP Home caucus—unveiled the Family Policy Agenda that outlines 14 family-focused rules together with the hazards of medicine part, which is totally about hashish legalization and the way it results in violent crime and suicide. The overarching purpose of the agenda is to “restore the American household.”
Of the 14 rules, 80 legislative suggestions are supplied to attain the GOP caucus’s targets to align with these rules. However the risks of drug part zeroed in on hashish—not different medicine like artificial opioids which the CDC mentioned accounted for over three-quarters of drug overdose deaths final yr.
“Marijuana stays a federally scheduled managed substance, however that has not stopped increasingly more states and localities from legalizing it beneath their very own legal guidelines,” the Household Coverage Agenda reads within the “Defending Kids from Risks of Medicine” part. “This has led to an explosion of marijuana use amongst kids, which is having a massively unfavourable impression on their well being.”
The agenda continues, “Congress mustn’t legalize marijuana, whereas additionally taking steps to constrain this new trade’s potential to hurt kids. On the very least, Congress ought to direct the CDC to collect information and conduct research on the well being impacts of THC use throughout childhood and early adolescence with a particular concentrate on deaths by suicide and people concerned in violent crime to offer Congress and the general public with additional details about these risks.”
What’s the answer to the hazards of pot? Ridding America of candy-flavored medicine, the agenda says, simply forward of Halloween season when trick-or-treaters are out and about.
“As well as, Congress ought to move the Protecting Kids from Candy-Flavored Drugs Act, launched 3 by RSC Chairman and Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN), which might enhance legal penalties for anybody who manufactures or distributes medicine which can be disguised as sweet,” the agenda reads.
The RSC, led by Chairman Banks, launched an announcement in regards to the agenda as a complete.
“The Biden presidency has failed America’s households,” Chairman Banks wrote in a September 29 press release. “Over the previous two years, households have misplaced financial savings, flexibility, and management over childrearing to more and more hostile and much left ideologues. Republicans have to place themselves because the get together of households. Subsequent Congress we have to concentrate on reforming the tax code to create extra households, passing pro-life laws, defending mother and father’ pocketbooks, and giving them again management over their youngsters’ training.
“All these insurance policies are fashionable and confirmed, and we’ve seen the distinction mother and father could make on election day. If Republicans can distinction our efforts with Democrats’ document of intrusion and management then I believe mother and father will play a pivotal function in 2022 and 2024.”
The RSC’s Household Coverage Agenda is supported by teams like SBA Professional-Life America and CatholicVote.
Not everybody agrees with the RSC’s specific part on hashish. For example, Reps. Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Brian Mast (R-FL) voted affirmatively for the Marijuana Alternative, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, Marijuana Second reports.
Others are doing fairly the other and following the agenda to cease candy-flavored hashish.
For example final August, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and 24 different GOP members launched a invoice that might ramp up legal penalties for the manufacturing and sale of Schedule I medicine—together with hashish—within the type of sweet and drinks they consider are marketed to minors. Beneath that legislation, folks federally prosecuted for promoting hashish merchandise within the form or taste of sweet to a minor may withstand 10 years in jail for the primary offense, with as much as 20 extra years for second and subsequent offenses.
Sens. Chuck Grassley and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) have been re-introducing related laws for years, nonetheless.