A congressional committee is urging the Justice Department to study the effectiveness of state regulatory frameworks for marijuana—and the panel is also pushing for researchers to be able to study the cannabis products that consumers purchase in legal states.
The House Appropriations Committee included the cannabis language in spending bill reports that were released last week as lawmakers work to pass appropriations legislation for multiple federal agencies.
For the bill covering Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS), there’s new report language that hasn’t been incorporated into earlier versions. It says that the committee is aware that more than 20 states have legalized adult-use marijuana, while a vast majority allow for medical cannabis, and it’s imploring the DOJ to work with the Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) and other agencies “to coordinate an assessment of the adequacy of these States’ marijuana regulatory frameworks, including commonalities and novel approaches to enforcement and oversight.”
Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, tried to get similar language added to a different spending bill report in July, proposing an alternative version that would’ve prompted the White House to work with other agencies to assess state cannabis
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