{"id":5401,"date":"2016-08-11T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/sanders-joins-democrats-criticizing-dea-for-marijuana-decision\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:25","slug":"sanders-joins-democrats-criticizing-dea-for-marijuana-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/sanders-joins-democrats-criticizing-dea-for-marijuana-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders se une a los dem\u00f3cratas que critican a la DEA por la decisi\u00f3n sobre la marihuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El senador Bernie Sanders de Vermont encabez\u00f3 un coro de cr\u00edticos despu\u00e9s de que la Administraci\u00f3n de Control de Drogas&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/to-your-health\/wp\/2016\/08\/10\/u-s-affirms-its-prohibition-on-medical-marijuana\/\">se neg\u00f3 a permitir<\/a>&nbsp;el uso de la marihuana con fines m\u00e9dicos: el ejemplo m\u00e1s reciente de pol\u00edticas que cambian r\u00e1pidamente en la guerra contra las drogas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa gente puede discutir sobre las ventajas y desventajas de la marihuana, pero todos saben que no es una droga asesina como la hero\u00edna\u201d, escribi\u00f3 Sanders en un tuit, despu\u00e9s de que la DEA anunciara que la marihuana seguir\u00eda siendo una droga de la Lista I sin \u201cuso m\u00e9dico actualmente aceptado en Estados Unidos\u201d. los Estados Unidos.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Los dem\u00f3cratas de la mayor\u00eda de los estados y distritos azules se hicieron eco de \u00e9l, quienes criticaron a la DEA por no ir m\u00e1s all\u00e1 para eliminar la marihuana de la lista negra legal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa DEA deber\u00eda gastar sus recursos limitados en atacar narc\u00f3ticos de alta prioridad en lugar de erigir obst\u00e1culos a la marihuana medicinal\u201d, dijo el representante Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) en un comunicado.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLa decisi\u00f3n de la Administraci\u00f3n de Control de Drogas de mantener la marihuana como una droga de la Lista I es frustrante, no cient\u00edfica y, francamente, fuera de lugar\u201d, dijo el representante Jared Polis (D-Colo). \u201cEs rid\u00edculo clasificar la marihuana junto con otras drogas de la Lista I. como la hero\u00edna Esta es una prueba m\u00e1s de que ya es hora de que el Congreso legalice y regule la marihuana como el alcohol, usando a Colorado como ejemplo\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>En Twitter, varios dem\u00f3cratas expresaron el punto de manera m\u00e1s sucinta.<\/p>\n<p>El senador Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), el \u00fanico miembro del Senado que respald\u00f3 la candidatura presidencial de Sanders, argument\u00f3 que la decisi\u00f3n de la DEA segu\u00eda dejando a estados como el suyo en una penumbra legal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSolo en Oreg\u00f3n, se estima que el mercado de la marihuana podr\u00eda generar cerca de 500 millones de d\u00f3lares en ingresos, todo en efectivo, durante sus primeros 14 meses de ventas legales\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cEl gobierno federal no deber\u00eda obligar a los negocios de marihuana legal de Oreg\u00f3n a llevar bolsas de deporte llenas de dinero en efectivo para pagar sus impuestos, empleados y facturas. Ampliar el acceso a la marihuana para la investigaci\u00f3n es \u00fatil, pero no resuelve estos problemas. Ahora est\u00e1 claro que el Congreso debe tomar medidas para poner fin al confuso mosaico de leyes y reglamentos estatales y federales para que las empresas en los estados que han legalizado la marihuana medicinal y recreativa puedan acceder a los servicios bancarios, se puedan realizar investigaciones federales adicionales y los m\u00e9dicos de Asuntos de Veteranos finalmente puedan hable sobre la marihuana medicinal con los pacientes\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Como candidato a la presidencia, Sanders adopt\u00f3 una postura de alto perfil a favor de la \u201cdesprogramaci\u00f3n\u201d de la marihuana para permitir experimentos estatales con la legalizaci\u00f3n y eliminar la amenaza de c\u00e1rcel para las personas que la consum\u00edan. En el per\u00edodo previo a las primarias de California, Sanders dijo que si tuviera un voto en el estado, apoyar\u00eda una medida electoral que legalizar\u00eda la venta de la droga con fines recreativos. (Durante 20 a\u00f1os, la marihuana ha estado disponible con fines medicinales en el estado).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMe parece muy extra\u00f1o que una instituci\u00f3n financiera importante que paga $5 mil millones en multas por infringir la ley y ninguno de sus ejecutivos sea procesado, mientras que los ni\u00f1os que fuman marihuana reciben una sentencia de c\u00e1rcel\u201d, dijo Sanders en muchos de sus discursos.<\/p>\n<p>Y en julio, cuando los delegados se reunieron para reafirmar la plataforma dem\u00f3crata, los delegados a favor de Sanders ganaron un lenguaje a favor de eliminar la marihuana. Ese tabl\u00f3n, aprobado por un solo voto, marc\u00f3 la declaraci\u00f3n m\u00e1s importante a favor de la marihuana legal desde el comienzo de la guerra contra las drogas.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont led a chorus of critics after the Drug Enforcement Administration&nbsp;declined to allow&nbsp;the use of marijuana for medical purposes &mdash;&nbsp;the latest example of fast-changing politics in the war on drugs. &#8220;People can argue about the pluses and minuses of marijuana, but everyone knows it&#8217;s not a killer drug like heroin,&#8221; Sanders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sanders joins Democrats criticizing DEA for marijuana decision - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/sanders-joins-democrats-criticizing-dea-for-marijuana-decision\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sanders joins Democrats criticizing DEA for marijuana decision - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sen. 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