What is the 'States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act'?
The "States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Act" has been introduced in many iterations throughout many congresses now at this point. Introduced at one point by Nancy Pelosi, by the way. And it basically, reschedules marijuana out of Schedule 1 removes it from that harsh schedule of Schedule 1 in the Controlled Substances Act which says that there's no medical value for a substance in that list. And places it, I believe, in Schedule 2 of the Controlled Substances Act which allows for broader use. And it also allows the states which have passed laws allowing for recommendation of marijuana by physicians to actually make that legal under federal law. So right now we this state of conflict, or if not conflict, at least inconsistency between the state and federal Law. This bill, the "States' Rights to Medical Marijuana Bill" would actually eliminate that inconsistency by allowing under federal law the states that, right now, allow medical marijuana to be provided to patients. So you wouldn't have this situation that we have now where the federal government comes in and raids patients in the states that allow medical marijuana.
