Tags : U.S. House of Representatives
Two Marijuana Bills For Military Veterans Will Get A Vote In Congress This Week
Marijuana Moment March 11, 2020
Two medical marijuana bills focused on military veterans are scheduled for votes in a congressional committee on Thursday. The House Veterans' Affairs Committee will mark up the pieces of legislation, which focus on increasing legal access to medical cannabis under state laws and expanding research on its therapeutic effects. This comes one year after the panel […]Read More
House-Passed Marijuana Amendments Stripped From Congressional Spending Bills
Marijuana Moment December 17, 2019
House Democrats failed to get a number of marijuana-related provisions attached to large-scale spending legislation after negotiations with the Senate. Reform advocates hoped that the Republican-controlled Senate would agree to adopt measures from a House-passed version of an appropriations bill that provided protections for all state and tribal cannabis programs against federal interference. But negotiators simply agreed […]Read More
New Congressional Resolution Calls For Marijuana Legalization And Drug Expungements
Marijuana Moment November 15, 2019
Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) released a congressional resolution on Thursday that calls for a fundamental reshaping of the criminal justice system, in part by legalizing marijuana and expunging all drug-related convictions. The congresswoman's "People's Justice Guarantee" resolution outlines "a bold, new vision for justice in the American criminal legal system" that's designed to "transform the […]Read More
Barbara Lee Honors Veterans Day With Call To Action On Marijuana Reform
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) marked Veterans Day by promoting a bill she introduced that would effectively legalize medical marijuana for military veterans. In a press release and email blast for the national advocacy group NORML, the congresswoman discussed the need to expand access to cannabis for those who've served, stating that studies demonstrate the plant […]Read More
We Need Less Righteousness, More Pragmatism in Politics
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BLM Blow: Virginia Rejects Bill Outlawing Private Prisons
State cannabis tasting rooms effort offers local certainty
Massachusetts takes statewide approach to cannabis consumption
New cannabis opposition group targets kids with #FakeNews
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