The Trump administration’s attorney general told senators on Tuesday that she’s committed to reviewing an Indian tribe’s practices related to the legal marijuana sales program it has launched on reservation lands. She also pledged to look into an app a GOP senator flagged that helps connect people to legal cannabis businesses across state lines.
During a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) asked Attorney General Pam Bondi about cannabis policy issues, focusing on the sale of marijuana on Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians (EBCI) land within his state of North Carolina that he said he has “no problem with” generally—but that he still finds “concerning” with respect to the conflict between state and federal marijuana laws.
“Nearly three dozen states [have] either medical, recreational or hybrid” cannabis models, the senator said. “But this kind of feels like to me, the way the tobacco industry got attacked for advertising to young people.”
“This is just this worries me, because it’s a money-making enterprise. It kind of seems like it’s preying on younger people,” he said, pointing to an app that he claims allows people in states that prohibit cannabis to order marijuana products in
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