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Senators Introduce “Historic” Bill to Allow Medical Marijuana

(TIME) A bipartisan group of three Senators will introduce a historic bill Tuesday that could end the federal ban on medical marijuana, a substance that 23 states have now legalized.

The plan sponsored by Republican Senator Rand Paul and Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand would “allow patients, doctors and businesses in states that have already passed medical-marijuana laws to participate in those programs without fear of federal prosecution,” according to a statement the three Senators released Monday.

SENATE BILL WOULD EFFECTIVELY END THE FEDERAL WAR ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA

A sweeping Senate bill introduced Tuesday seeks to significantly roll back the federal government’s war on medical marijuana.

The Compassionate Access, Research Expansion and Respect States (CARERS) Act, introduced by Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), seeks to drastically reduce the federal government’s ability to crack down on state-legal medical marijuana programs and encourage more research into the plant through several major changes in federal law.

"This bill that we are introducing seeks to right decades of wrong," Booker said Tuesday. "Doctors and patients deserve federal laws that are fair and compassionate, and states should be able to set their own medical marijuana policies without federal interference. I am thankful to Senators Gillibrand and Paul as well as the Drug Policy Alliance for their hard work on this common-sense bill to make medical marijuana accessible to the millions of Americans who could benefit from it."

"Today," Booker added, "we join together to say: Enough is enough."

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators will introduce Tuesday a bill that would end the federal ban on medical marijuana, reversing a decades-old law that prohibits even military doctors from prescribing cannabis to war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress. This is great news — but which of the potential Republican 2016 candidates would be on board with legal weed in the future?

Because booty.

Saul: I wish I had a job like that. Where I could just sit around and smoke weed all day

Dale Denton: Hey you do have that job. You do sit around and smoke weed all day.

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