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A comment on Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of or Use of Marijuana. Parent comment

Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of o... by natebc on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:51PM (#38739090)
If we can get 2/3 of the state legislatures to agree, and 3/4 of them to ratify we can amend the constitution without Congress via a Constitutional Convention.

Still long odds but we technically don't HAVE to do it with Congress.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution/artic...

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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of o... by ethanbond on Friday December 22, 2023 @04:58PM (#38739160)
Unfortunately the people closest to achieving this are openly wannabe theocrats
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Re:Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of o... by BobaFloutist on Friday December 22, 2023 @05:49PM (#38739501)
If we could do that, then we'd have an easy congressional majority to do it through congress.

Constitutional amendment is far harder than congressional legislation.

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