Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, introduced a bill to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, which she hopes will garner more GOP support for the legalization movement.
at the federal level, which she hopes will garner more GOP support for the legalization movement.
Mace's bill would strip cannabis of its classification as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, which makes possession of marijuana a crime. Her office said the legislation aims to end criminalization "in a manner consistent with the rights of states to determine what level of cannabis reform or legalization each state wants to regulate, or not."
Sales would be prohibited to people under 21, Mace said, adding that the bill would establish cannabis regulations similar to restrictions on alcohol. "I kept it very low," Mace said, pointing to high taxes on marijuana in California, which she said have stoked black market sales. "It's got to be under 4 percent to reduce the opportunity for illicit markets."released this month found that 68 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana, with backing from 83 percent of Democrats and 50 percent of Republicans.
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