[Vision2020] U.S. House Bill 499: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2013

[Tom Hansen]

U.S. House Bill 499: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2013
(Introduced February 5, 2013)

H.R. 499 would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level, leaving it up to the states to decide whether to allow marijuana for medicinal or recreational use. 

Specifically, the bill would:

Remove marijuana from the list of federally controlled substances;
Transfer the Drug Enforcement Administration’s authority to regulate marijuana to a newly renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms, which will be tasked with regulating marijuana as it currently does alcohol; and
Require marijuana producers and sellers to purchase a permit, as commercial alcohol producers do, of which the proceeds would offset the cost of federal oversight.

COSPONSORS
Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR3]
Cohen, Steve [D-TN9]
Honda, Michael “Mike” [D-CA17]
Huffman, Jared [D-CA2]
Lee, Barbara [D-CA13]
Moran, James “Jim” [D-VA8]
Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY10]
Norton, Eleanor [D-DC0]
Schakowsky, Janice “Jan” [D-IL9]
Pocan, Mark [D-WI2] 
Rohrabacher, Dana [R-CA48]
Pingree, Chellie [D-ME2]
Swalwell, Eric [D-CA15]
Grijalva, Raul [D-AZ3]
Hastings, Alcee [D-FL20]

U.S. House Bill 499
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hr499ih/pdf/BILLS-113hr499ih.pdf

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"There's room at the top they are telling you still 
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill 
If you want to be like the folks on the hill."

- John Lennon
 
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