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.”
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