HOUSE DEMOCRATS WANT ‘STUDY’ DONE TO RECOMMEND FEDS NOT ENFORCE FEDERAL LAWS WHICH CONFLICT WITH STATE LAWS THAT PERMIT MARIJUANA USE

Make no mistake about it, any study done to look into the federal pot policy will be a sham. What the Democrats really want and expect to get is a recommendation that the DEA stop enforcing federal laws that prohibit the possession, manufacture and distribution of marijuana when those laws conflict with state laws permitting the use and manufacture of pot for medical or recreational purposes.

Rep. Steve Cohen and his fellow Democrats are also looking and hoping for a recommendation to end the War on Drugs. I wonder how many of those congressional libs are into smoking pot?

DEMOCRATS SEEK TO CREATE COMMISSION ON MARIJUANA POLICY

Newsmax
April 19, 2013

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., has introduced a bill to form a National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy.

The commission would be charged with looking at the conflicts between state laws that permit marijuana use and federal law banning the drug.

The bill, introduced Thursday, is co-sponsored by Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, Sam Farr of California, Jim Moran of Virginia and Jared Polis of Colorado, The Hill reports.

"Regardless of your views on marijuana, it's important that we understand the impact of current federal policy and address the conflict with those state laws that allow for medicinal or personal use of marijuana," Cohen said in a statement.

"This conflict is only going to continue to grow over the next few years, and we must provide certainty to the millions of individuals and businesses that remain caught in a web of incompatible laws. A national commission would provide us with the information we need to create sensible policy going forward."

Cohen left no doubt where he stands on the issue. A national commission called for decriminalization of marijuana in 1973, he noted. "In the four decades since the Shafer Commission, however, the federal government has only expanded its War on Drugs and continued to prohibit the use marijuana."