(This story originally appeared in the October 2022 issue of MJBizMagazine.)
The 2022 midterm elections are right around the corner, and the outcome could prove incredibly important to U.S. marijuana businesses.
If Republicans take control of at least one of the two chambers of Congress – as is largely expected to happen in the U.S. House of Representatives – that would dramatically affect the chances of lawmakers passing marijuana reforms, much less getting them signed into federal law.
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Some stakeholders say the bigger concern, however, is the U.S. Senate, because Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has made it clear that he doesn’t support marijuana legalization – or even incremental federal changes.
Elephants and donkeys
Democrats traditionally are more in favor of legalizing marijuana, and the Democrats’ hold on the upper chamber is as tenuous as they come, with a 50-50 split that requires Vice President Kamala Harris to break
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