Has HRC taken a position on full legalization?

[cleveramerican]

If she did I missed it?

[forgotmylogin]

1. I don't think.

But rescheduling it is a smart strategic step in the right direction without kicking up too much dust.

(on edit) Looked it up: (via Huff http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/the-candidates-positions_b_9744362.html)

Hillary Clinton has three bullet points on her campaign website specifically dealing with marijuana:

* Focus federal enforcement resources on violent crime, not simple marijuana possession. Marijuana arrests, including for simple possession, account for a huge number of drug arrests. Further, significant racial disparities exist in marijuana enforcement, with black men significantly more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than their white counterparts, even though usage rates are similar. Hillary believes we need an approach to marijuana that includes:
* Allowing states that have enacted marijuana laws to act as laboratories of democracy, as long as they adhere to certain federal priorities such as not selling to minors, preventing intoxicated driving, and keeping organized crime out of the industry.
* Rescheduling marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule II substance. Hillary supports medical marijuana and would reschedule marijuana to advance research into its health benefits.

[KMOD]

2. here

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/hillary-clinton-responds-question-legalizing-marijuana-38566835

[cleveramerican]

5. Thanks for the link

[fun n serious]

3. I want to see at least decriminalization

[LoverOfLiberty]

4. Doesn't that have to be done at the state level?

And won't it be easier for states to do that if it is rescheduled?

There are a handful of states that allow recreational marijuana, but a change in Executive could quickly put an end to that.

[fun n serious]

6. Yes but it would help if people high in office endorsed it.

I live in Oregon and we are doing well here so far.

[LoverOfLiberty]

8. I'm in Oregon as well

and all it would take is for Congress to pass a law saying that states that don't enforce federal drug laws will lose public safety funding, and our recreational marijuana law will go up in flames. That is the danger of a republican president and a schedule I classification.

[cleveramerican]

10. I think you mean...

In high office, not high in office

[fun n serious]

12. lol

Yes.

[Demsrule86]

9. Unlikely to happe at the federal level.

It will come about in the states.

[fun n serious]

7. In Oregon..

It has freed up a lot of Police time and helped with police harrassment that was happening here before we legalized it.

[DemonGoddess]

11. I think rescheduling it from I to II

is a step in the right direction. Me, I'm allergic to the stuff, so it doesn't matter for me. However, by rescheduling, that means that actual research can be done on the plant, as should have been done years ago. There would then be a body of scientific evidence backing the empirical of what the advantages are with this botanical. It's obvious there are benefits from the plant, just from the need for "medical marijuana" statutes.

I also think the rescheduling will make it EASIER for states to step in on this, and end prohibitive laws against it, just as the states ended Prohibition.