He also points to how federal budget riders designed to protect cannabis operations in medical marijuana states have been approved by Congress over the past several years. On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas said the federal marijuana laws in the United States had lost any sensical function and are no longer needed. “A prohibition on interstate use or cultivation of marijuana may no longer be necessary or proper to support the federal government’s piecemeal approach,” he wrote. Furthermore, plenty of Democrats and Republicans representing states where weed is legal aren’t yet convinced that federal legalization is the right way to go. There still too much division in the Senate to see that a cannabis reform bill gets a fair shot. And President Joe Biden, well, he’s not willing to support full-blown legalization until after the research tells him it’s safe to do so.
According to Clarence Thomas, there is no use in the federal government continuing to enforce separate rules for the cannabis plant if it’s going to continue allowing states to operate fully legal markets.
Although the suits on Capitol Hill, otherwise known as Congress, might be incapable of passing a marijuana reform bill this year — and rest assured, they are seriously incapable of getting it done — one of the US Supreme Court’s most conservative justices has published a statement concerning federal marijuana prohibition that could make them look like clowns for their inaction.
On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas said the federal...
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