Democrats in the House of Representatives postponed a planned vote next week on marijuana legalization following a backlash from moderate Democrats. The legislation, the MORE Act, would legalize marijuana at the federal level and expunge some marijuana-related criminal records, though it left the decision on the sale of marijuana up to the states. According to a […]
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Moderate Democrats push leadership to pull marijuana legislation
Centrist Democrats are pushing House Democratic leadership to pull legislation expected to reach the House floor next week that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level. The Democrats are expressing frustrations the bill is slated to come up for a vote before other pressing matters. Specifically, a number of front-line members have raised concerns about […]
Marijuana vote poses November risk for Democrats
Democrats are taking an unprecedented gamble this month: voting to legalize cannabis at the federal level. The MORE Act would remove the penalties for marijuana, erase some criminal records and create grant programs for people hit especially hard by the war on drugs. Democrats say the timing is perfect: Support has been building for loosening […]
(Meaningless?) Federal Vote on Marijuana Legalization is on the Horizon
By Hilary Bricken, Co-founder Harris Bricken I’ve been practicing corporate, transactional, and regulatory law in the marijuana industry for going on 10 years now. I’ve never understood exactly why folks get excited about, or even remotely interested, when various lifetime politicians in Congress push bills on the federal legalization/rescheduling of marijuana. Why? Because these bills […]
Bill to decriminalize marijuana at federal level up for House vote next month
A landmark bill that would decriminalize marijuana use at the federal level is up for vote soon. The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on the legislation in September, according to an email sent out on Friday by Majority Whip James Clyburn. Politico first reported on the pending vote. The “Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019” — also called […]
Cannabis legalization: Five highlights of the MORE Act and what you need to know about it
Cannabis by Caltabiano Everyone knows the legal cannabis sector is seemingly unstoppable as an emergent business sector. Everyone also knows it is a business space in the U.S. that is defined by complex and challenging regulations and legalities that restrict the industry’s full potential to expand economically and even scientifically. The vast majority of today’s […]
Wednesday’s marijuana legalization vote was truly historic — here’s why
On Wednesday, members of Congress did something that they had never done before. For the first time ever, a body of the U.S. Congress voted to end cannabis’s nearly century-long status as a federally prohibited substance. By a vote of more than two to one, members of the United States House Judiciary Committee passed legislation, House Bill 3884: […]
Sorry, Congress Probably Isn’t Going To Legalize Marijuana This Year
If you stick your head out the window and listen carefully, you will hear the shrieks, screams and howls of the cannabis community. In spite of the go-nowhere year that the United States has suffered concerning marijuana reform, a lot of these folks are still convinced that we have a fighting chance at legalizing the […]
