Yep wayyyy cool. 
That’s why having old stagnant senators in office forever is no good. There needs to be term limits. Different generations see things differently.
Been saying term limits needed for ever…Neither side would ever vote for that both side has ancient peeps in there.
I would encourage everyone excited about the MORE act to go read it. After reading it I am fully against it. This is not not good for people involved in the industryand I believe MORE stands for more government intervention. I’ll leave it to you to interpret what you read rather than give you commentary but I can’t emphasize enough going and reading the MORE act. I’m not saying that it is devoid of positive things but the price I feel is too high… Pun intended.
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I fully expect this to die in senate seeing as the yearly deadline is approaching and they most likely won’t get to it in time. Next year at some point it’ll be rewritten, probably differently.
What didn’t you like?
Here the summary from the bill with a few comments to answer what I like and don’t like.
There’s good and bad in the bill but the bad outweighs the good in my opinion. Basically, I like the parts that help people and I hate the parts that hurt people…especially if they start by saying they want to help the people they are hurting or patronizing.
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The bill also makes other changes, including the following:
- replaces statutory references to marijuana and marihuana with cannabis, Whatever on this bit.
- requires the Bureau of Labor Statistics to regularly publish demographic data on cannabis business owners and employees, Read deeper… so they can see if you’re hiring enough of the “right people”. We’ll hire whomever we damn please based on their ability to do the job… Bite me if you want to mandate me to take a less qualified or motivated person because of some demographic guideline… I am fully against fascistic government intervention into business.
- establishes a trust fund to support various programs and services for individuals and businesses in communities impacted by the war on drugs, Who decides this? Who distributes it? Is there a control on increases to a tax like this…5% now but with a stroke of the pen they will tax cannabis users even more. It’s not called a trust fund because we trust the government to do the right thing. Change your name to Ben Dover if they get in the taxation door with this. This is like saying its’ for the children… as if we can’t take care of ourselves without their help and soft-porn offer of reparations to “those affected”. That money will do nothing to help people just like the rest of the programs etc. 5% of a billion is 50,000,000 times however many billions sell via legal markets. I don’t trust them with it and they pay for it by taxing the very people they claim to help who will go to the black market to avoid the tax… where does this make any sense outside of the feel-good statement “were going to help the oppressed”. I don’t believe or trust them so I see it causing harm to the very people it claims to help while fattening the government.
- imposes a 5% tax on cannabis products and requires revenues to be deposited into the trust fund, Think through who pays this tax… it’s not the businesses. Their pain is the strengthening of their black market competitors who already don’t pay the 47+% tax in WA. Shear genius, right?
- makes Small Business Administration loans and services available to entities that are cannabis-related legitimate businesses or service providers, Fair and good-I like this
- prohibits the denial of federal public benefits to a person on the basis of certain cannabis-related conduct or convictions, Fair and good-I like this
- prohibits the denial of benefits and protections under immigration laws on the basis of a cannabis-related event (e.g., conduct or a conviction), and Pure politics… if it’s legal then this is a redundant, virtue signal written in to get votes or campaign money. i’m indifferent here.
- establishes a process to expunge convictions and conduct sentencing review hearings related to federal cannabis offenses. Very Fair and good-Love this bit.
You are on point mr craig. 
These bills are never perfect and there’s always a catch. But if it gets cannabis off the Controlled Substance list I’m all for it!!
My biggest hangup was this so called Trust the 5% tax is supposed to go to. I don’t trust anyone in government with public money. I’d have to be fool if I did…
I agree… the only thing I am interested in the government doing is getting out of things. All of them are there because they were “sponsored” in by people who expect something. If you like that something you’ll enjoy the help…until the guy with the money disagrees with you…then watch out. Why not restore the names of the people they harmed and then get out of it? Never gonna happen because power wants its vig. Look how much control they have over the money…forcing us to go beg them for permission. I say fuck em if they want more than to get out of it.
5% for now…income tax started as a temporary for the the war tax of 3%. What will the tax be in 20 years? I sure don’t know what it will be but I know it will be more than 5%.
No taxation without representation