A key House committee is allowing marijuana and psychedelics amendments to receive floor votes. The measures, which are being proposed to be attached to a large-scale spending bill, focus on allowing U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) doctors to recommend medical cannabis to military veterans and promoting research into substances like psilocybin and MDMA.
Meanwhile, the House Rules Committee on Tuesday blocked additional amendments that would end the practice of drug testing job applicants for marijuana at certain federal agencies and separately address VA medical marijuana issues from advancing as part of Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations legislation that covers Military Construction, Veterans Affairs and Related Agencies (MilCon/VA).
Earlier this month, the committee blocked more than a dozen other drug policy reform amendments that were proposed as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
For the current spending bill, two sets of bipartisan lawmakers had separately filed identical amendments to provide protections for veterans who use medical marijuana in legal states, as well as doctors at the VA who issue recommendations to allow participation in such programs.
But one of the measures was revised ahead of the committee meeting to specifically prohibit the use of VA funds to enforce provisions
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