As President Donald Trump considers a proposal to federally reclassify marijuana via an administrative process, a GOP congressman has introduced a bill that would achieve the reform legislatively, codifying the policy change under federal statute.
This is the fourth session in a row that Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) has filed his “Marijuana 1-to-3 Act,” a reference to the fact that the measure would make it so cannabis would be transferred from Schedule I to Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
Under a Biden administration-initiated proposal, that’s exactly what would happen at the administrative level—a policy that Trump endorsed on the campaign trial and more tepidly said he was considering at a press briefing on Monday. The president said a decision on the pending cannabis reform would come in the next few weeks.
Steube’s bill, filed on Tuesday, would enact the reform legislatively, which would solidify the policy in a way that could mitigate the risk of legal challenges.
The two-page legislation states that “the Attorney General of the United States shall, by order not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this section, transfer marijuana…from schedule I of such Act to schedule III” of the
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