Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the powerful U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and a sympathetic ear to pot reform issues, is planning hearings soon to consider the federal response to the legalization votes in Colorado and Washington states.
The Congress should immediately remove marijuana/cannabis from Schedule One of the Controlled Substances Act and instead include it in subtitle E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages and tobacco.
This would allow the states to regulate cannabis as they see is best in their communities.
Why is this important?
Reschedule marijuana in in federal law in 2013 to allow the states to regulate as they see fit.
