The House Judiciary Committee voted 24-10 to approve the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, which would remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substance
For one, the Judiciary Committee is only the first committee to have taken up the bill; it also has been introduced in seven other House committees, any or all of which could alter the debate.over whether to try to push through sweeping legislation like the MORE Act or to go more slowly, emphasizing regulatory issues like the financial ramifications of decriminalization.
"This bill is nearly devoid of bipartisan support," Doug Collins of Georgia, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said Wednesday. Another Republican on the committee, Ken Buck of Colorado, said:"I don't think a majority of the Republicans will support this bill. It is even less likely that the Senate would take it up. Therefore, I would just suggest that we deal with other bills that we can get a much larger bipartisan support from."
The legislation's primary sponsor, Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., the committee's chairman, said he, too, assumed that the Senate wouldn't accept the bill"as is." But he said he didn't agree with the argument that"the Senate won't take this bill." "When the House passes a bill, it's part of a continuing process. It's not the end of a process," he said.President Donald Trump hasn't explicitly said whether he thinks the federal government should get out of the business of regulating marijuana. The closest he's come was in April, when he said he supported legislation that would protect legal marijuana activities in states that have approved them.
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