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Representatives Polis and Blumenauer Introduce Bills to End the Federal Prohibition and Tax Marijuana

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 20, 2015.  Today, Representatives Jared Polis (D-CO) and Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)  introduced two bills that together would legalize and tax marijuana at the federal level. Representative Polis’s legislation, H.R. 1013, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, removes marijuana from the schedule set by the Controlled Substances Act; transitions marijuana oversight from the jurisdiction of the Drug Enforcement Agency to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; and regulates marijuana like alcohol by inserting…

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