Below is a list of all 111 lawmakers in the United States Congress who are currently sponsoring legislation to deschedule marijuana.
In the US House of Representatives, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, first introduced in April 2023, currently has 93 sponsors. In the Senate, the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), filed in April of this year, has 18 sponsors.
Both measures would remove marijuana as a controlled substance (referred to as descheduling), effectively decriminalizing it nationwide. Both measures would also allow for the expungement of past marijuana convictions, and they would establish a federal excise tax on state-level licensed marijuana sales. The CAOA would go a step further by establishing federal guidelines for marijuana sales, including establishing a Center for Cannabis Products within the FDA to oversee “the production, labeling, distribution, sales and other manufacturing and retail elements of the cannabis industry.”
Below is a list of every member of the US Senate currently sponsoring the CAOA:
- Michael F. Bennet (D-CO)
- Laphonza R. Butler (D-CA)
- Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY)
- John W. Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Edward J. Markey (D-MA)
- Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Gary C. Peters (D-MI)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Tina Smith (D-MN)
- John Fetterman (D-PA)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
- Raphael G. Warnock (D-GA)
- Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM)
- Peter Welch (D-VT)
Below is a list of every member of the US Senate currently sponsoring the MORE Act:
- Alma Adams (D-NC)
- Becca Balint (D-VT)
- Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
- Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR)
- Jamaal Bowman (D-NY)
- Brendan Boyle (D-PA)
- Shontel Brown (D-OH)
- Cori Bush (D-MO)
- Salud Carbajal (D-CA)
- Tony Cárdenas (D-CA)
- Gregorio Casar (D-TX)
- Kathy Castor (D-FL)
- Joaquin Castro (D-TX)
- Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL)
- Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)
- Steve Cohen (D-TN)
- Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
- Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)
- Diana DeGette (D-CO)
- Suzan DelBene (D-WA)
- Chris Deluzio (D-PA)
- Lloyd Doggett (D-TX)
- Dwight Evans (D-PA)
- Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ)
- Sylvia Garcia (D-TX)
- Robert Julio Garcia (D-CA)
- Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL)
- Daniel Goldman (D-NY)
- Jimmy Gomez (D-CA)
- Jared Huffman (D-CA)
- Steven Horsford (D-NV)
- Henry C. “Hank” Johnson (D-GA)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)
- Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)
- Ro Khanna (D-CA)
- Andy Kim (D-NJ)
- Daniel Kildee (D-MI)
- Summer Lee (D-PA)
- Barbara Lee (D-CA)
- Ted Lieu (D-CA)
- Greg Landsman (D-OH)
- Kweisi Mfume (D-MD)
- Jennifer McClellan (D-VA)
- James “Jim” McGovern (D-MA)
- Betty McCollum (D-MN)
- Morgan McGarvey (D-KY)
- Grace Meng (D-NY)
- Joseph Morelle (D-NY)
- Seth Moulton (D-MA)
- Frank Mrvan (D-IN)
- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
- Ilhan Omar (D-MN)
- Alex Padilla (D-CA)
- Jimmy Panetta (D-CA)
- Chellie Pingree (D-ME)
- Dean Phillips (D-MN)
- Mark Pocan (D-WI)
- Katie Porter (D-CA)
- Ayanna Pressley (D-MA)
- Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
- Delia Ramirez (D-IL)
- Janice “Jan” Schakowsky (D-IL)
- Mary Scanlon (D-PA)
- Charles E. Schumer (D-NY)
- Brad Sherman (D-CA)
- Adam Smith (D-WA)
- Marilyn Strickland (D-WA)
- Eric Swalwell (D-CA)
- Dina Titus (D-NV)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- David Trone (D-MD)
- Ritchie Torres (D-NY)
- Paul Tonko (D-NY)
- Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ)
- Frederica Wilson (D-FL)
- Nikema Williams (D-GA)
