Congressmember Dina Titus, Co-Chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, says marijuana rescheduling is ‘”stalled”, but she believes “we can get that moving again” if they can remind President Trump of his support for marijuana reform during his 2024 presidential campaign.
During a speech at the Global Cannabis Regulatory Summit on March 27, Rep. Titus said that the Cannabis Caucus is working on three primary priorities, including passing legislation to allow marijuana banking nationwide, ensuring veterans have access to medical cannabis, and further enabling and expanding cannabis-based research.
In regards to the research piece, Rep. Titus said “right now you can’t get much product to do research on except for some little scraggly plants from some place in Mississippi.. and yet you can go into a dispensary and find all these elaborate flavors and brans and buds.” She asks “why are we not making some of that available for research and allowing universities to not be afraid that they’re going to get their federal money cut off?”
Speaking on the ongoing effort to reschedule cannabis, Rep. Titus said “that seems to be stalled right now. Maybe we can get that moving again. The president during the campaign in Florida seemed pretty open to the cannabis industry. Since then I don’t know about some members of his administration, but if we can go back and remind him of that maybe we’ll have a shot to move that forward”.
A day before giving her speech at the Global Cannabis Regulatory Summit, Rep. Titus told us “I am currently working on several pieces of cannabis legislation and look forward to informing you when I have information to share”, noting that the staff of the Caucus “have worked collaboratively this Congress and will continue to work to advance sensible cannabis policy”. According to Rep. Titus, she’s been “meeting with stakeholders, attending various cannabis-related events and conferences, and look forward to engaging with the Caucus this Congress.”
