For the First Time Ever, the House Votes To Repeal the Federal Ban on Marijuana
Many of the Republicans in the Senate will likely oppose it. Seems odd for a self-styled “party of small government.”
Pharma is also watching these developments very closely.
(From Reason)
For the first time ever, the House of Representatives voted to repeal the federal ban on marijuana, which was originally imposed 83 years ago in the guise of a revenue measure. The vote was 228 to 164, with five Republicans—including Matt Gaetz of Florida, who cosponsored the bill—joining 222 Democrats and Rep. Justin Amash (L–Mich.) in supporting the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, which would remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and eliminate federal criminal penalties for cultivation, distribution, and possession.
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