A top GOP Tennessee lawmaker says medical marijuana legalization may move forward in the state now that his “biggest objections are being resolved” with the pending federal rescheduling of cannabis as ordered by President Donald Trump.
While marijuana reform has long stalled in conservative legislature, House Majority Leader William Lamberth (R) said the push to move cannabis from Schedule I to Schedule III of the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) could remove roadblocks at the state level.
“My biggest objections are being resolved by the federal government right now in rescheduling cannabis and rescheduling specifically marijuana and allowing the doctors to take over and make a determination on how and if these substances could be helpful,” Lamberth said.
Rep. Jeremy Faison (R), who has worked to enact reform in the state, told WKRN-TV that he’d estimate “within the next two or three years, you’re going to see a framework set up here in Tennessee” to provide patients with a means to access cannabis for therapeutic use.
“I look forward to the day in Tennessee that we’ve set up a framework where people aren’t just getting high, but there are some very sick people who don’t want to be
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