Amazon said it is endorsing legislation\u00a0introduced by\u00a0Rep.\u00a0Nancy Mace\u00a0(R-S.C.) late last year that would end federal prohibition of marijuana.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re pleased to endorse\u00a0@RepNancyMace’s States Reform Act. Like so many in this country, we believe it\u2019s time to reform the nation\u2019s cannabis policy and Amazon is committed to helping lead the effort,\u201d according to a tweet from\u00a0Amazon\u2019s\u00a0public policy team on Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n The legislation that Mace introduced in November \u2014 along with Reps.\u00a0Tom McClintock\u00a0(R-Calif.),\u00a0Don Young\u00a0(R-Alaska),\u00a0Brian Mast\u00a0(R-Fla.) and\u00a0Peter Meijer\u00a0(R-Mich.) \u2014 would decriminalize marijuana federally and treat the substance similarly to alcohol.<\/p>\n The legislation would also give states\u00a0agency\u00a0over how to handle\u00a0marijuana, but it would also\u00a0establish a federal age requirement that users be at least 21 years old to use the substance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazon said it is endorsing legislation\u00a0introduced...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44128,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44127\/revisions\/44128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}