Key Committee In Congress Approves Marijuana Legalization Bill

In a surprising turn of events, a key Congressional committee, the House Judiciary Committee, has voted to approve the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2019, or H.R. 3884, whichon a federal level by removing it from the Controlled Substances Act.

The bill, introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler passed with bipartisan support in a 24 to 10 vote. As reported by Marijuana Moment, two Republicans voted in favor of this bill: Reps. Matt Gaetz and Tom McClintock .Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance explained that, with the markup of the MORE Act on Wednesday, the United States of America is “coming one step closer to ending the devastating harms of marijuana prohibition, which have fallen so heavily on Black and Brown people.

However, this is a good first step. This bill is “the closest we’ve come yet to not only ending those harms at the federal level, but also beginning to repair them,” McFarland Sánchez-Moreno added, explaining it is now up to the U.S. Congress to “do the right thing and swiftly pass the bill to ensure justice is not delayed a moment longer.

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