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William Henry
L Libertarian nominee for U.S. House, IN-02
Has not served in Congress
- On the ballot
- On the general election ballotNov 3, 2026 · Indiana US House 2
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- Top priorities
- A Strategic Approach to Criminal Justice Reform
- The 1937 Marihuana Tax Act regulated cannabis out of legality, and federal scheduling hindered all scientific studies by the 1970s.
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2 priorities from williamhenry.us, in the order they are listed there. Every heading and the text under it is copied exactly, as one passage for each page it is from, and links to that place on the page; hover a source to see which passage it opens.
Most states have since created robust medical and adult-use programs for full access to cannabis, including our surrounding states. However, Indiana continues prosecuting simple cannabis possessions, wasting precious criminal justice resources. For example, 6,600 rape kits remain in a backlog to be tested in Indiana. Rather than seeking justice for those sexual assault victims and completing the testing, from 2018 to 2022, the state instead continued to use its resources to arrest and prosecute 36,819 people for simple cannabis possession. This is not comparing apples and oranges; this demonstrates a clear need to properly organize and reprioritize our criminal justice resources and make reforms. Indiana law enforcement is permitted to violate Fourth Amendment rights and use cannabis scent as a probable cause for warrantless searches of your person or property, even if it doesn’t produce. And in a permitless carry state like Indiana, cannabis also makes for enhanced criminal charges alongside the possession of a firearm. Hoosier hemp-related businesses have been putting state sales tax into the surplus coffers from legal cannabis sales for five years. This money has yielded no paid studies, recommendations, or substantial expansions to cannabis law or policy. One single business I questioned reported nearly $1 million in sales since hemp went legal,
which is about $70,000 in taxes the state collected over that time. If they allocated a portion of hemp-derived tax funds toward cannabis studies, we would have substantial data for lawmakers, executives, judges, and the public. We hear tired lines from lawmakers like, “we need more studies,” while simultaneously refusing to fund or recommending cannabis studies; or, “what about the children,” while children with intractable seizures suffer and die without cannabinoids; or, “it’s a gateway drug,” while people use it to ween off opioids and deadly drugs. I am working to coordinate a cannabis nutritional study and have been in direct communication with the FDA Food Labeling & Nutrition, USDA U.S. Domestic Hemp Program, USDA FoodData Central, Indiana Hemp,program, Purdue Extension, and the Indiana State Department of Agriculture. All involved are informed and understand there is nothing except funding preventing a state or federal study of legal hemp in any manner. There are no restrictions to studying hemp-derived THC or CBD, or a nutritional study of the raw fruited plant material. Ignoring, or refusing to serve constituents is not acceptable, and we cannot allow Indiana lawmakers to continue to discriminate Hoosiers medically and nutritionally. Citizens are taxed in a legal market to be represented, and avoid penalties, fines, and discrimination, and that is not happening.
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