Marijuana Is Still Illegal – Who’s to Blame, Senator Booker or Emperor McConnell?

(See the tweet that started the debate and leave a comment, click here!)

Both a Democrat and Republican criticize why weed is still illegal.

On the way to blaming Emperor McConnell for blocking cannabis legalization, a funny thing happened. The Twitterverse is just as upset with Senator Booker, a co-sponsor of one of the marijuana legalization bills in Congress. Our tweet of the story about Booker blasting McConnell for not being legalized drew anger from Twitter accounts against Booker.

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Why is a Democrat sponsoring a legalization bill getting the big raspberry on Twitter for not legalizing cannabis at this time?

For those who are not in the cannabis industry and are following every twist, let me summarize briefly. The general belief is that Democrats and Republicans could reach an agreement on legalization at the federal level, but Booker and other Democrats will not pass a legalization bill that does not include a strong social justice and economic empowerment clause. Our sources in DC say Republicans are okay with legalization, but clauses on social justice and economic empowerment are out of the question for them, and it won’t be done if those clauses are included in the bill.

Senator Booker refuses to pass a bill that doesn’t include social justice and economic empowerment clauses because he doesn’t want the marijuana industry to be just a “bunch of rich white and powerful corporations,” while I paraphrase, that’s the joke from that.

Will you win the war and lose the battle? Make sure you win the battle and worry about the war on the road?

I think the smarter game would have been to first accept the deal and win the war, then go back to the state level and implement sensible rules of social justice and economic empowerment. The current social justice system, when it fails miserably in many states and hands out “Willy Wonka licenses” to those without funding or the business skills needed to run a business, is leaving many SE and EE applicants in the lurch be left cannabis world.

While I disagree with Booker’s strategy, I can understand it.

Let me repeat that.

I disagree with Booker’s decision to fundamentally block legalization without social justice and economic empowerment clauses, I understand why he is doing it and what it means to him.

Of course, in full disclosure, I’m a rich white man, so I’m fine with the “let’s legalize it and get to the details later,” while Booker would tell me, “Yeah, you’re fine with that, but the SE and EE applicants harmed by the War on Drugs would be forgotten and left behind.”

One thing most industry experts agree on is that any full legalization plan involving interstate commerce will be a death sentence for many of the companies and licenses given to SE and EE applicants. The massive margin compression and price reductions that would accompany full state-to-state trading would crush the margins of all cannabis companies in their current composition and destroy the artificial barriers that protect SE and EE licenses and applicants.

So while Booker wants these companies protected, the reality is that federal legalization is decimating these companies in the search for an efficient market. I didn’t support the Republican view on legalization because I was a rich white guy, I supported “win the war, legalize first” because of what would happen to SE and EE companies anyway once interstate commerce started.

Twitter has accused Booker of being a pawn for Big Pharma, protecting his girlfriend’s cannabis business, and a host of conspiracy theory ideas as to why Booker is a wolf in sheep’s clothing on the matter.

While Cannabis.net has always said that if Mitch McConnell and his 8 friends say so, that weed will be legal in America, there is growing frustration with Senator Booker and the Democrats as they blew their majority in the 3 houses of government and onto one Deal that was “a little too liberal” for Republican tastes.

Should Booker have tried to win the war and lose the battle, or should he have kept his promise to SE and EE applicants under a federal law agreement?

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Senator Booker joins https://t.co/L28gXiIH4J in blasting Emperor McConnell for stopping legalization of #marijuana in America https://t.co/hOtLx9DIFF

— CannabisNet (@cannabis_net) December 19, 2022

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