Bipartisan U.S. senators are reacting to the Trump administration’s move to federally reschedule cannabis in new interviews with Marijuana Moment—with Democrats saying the reform doesn’t go far enough, some Republicans expressing concerns and one GOP lawmaker discussing how she’s finally opening up to cannabis after speaking to friends who use it for medical purposes.
Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC) told Marijuana Moment that he’s “no fan” of President Donald Trump’s cannabis rescheduling action, saying that “if you want to make it medical it needs to have standard research alongside of it, and it seems to have bypassed some of that.”
The GOP senator did acknowledge that, “in their defense, I would say we are owning up to the fact that it is not the same as heroin and cocaine.”
“Nonetheless, it has many, many problems and I want them to be fully researched,” Budd said. “I’ve just seen damage it’s done to people.”
Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), in contrast, reacted to the Trump administration’s action to move marijuana from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to Schedule III by saying “I don’t think it goes far enough.”
“I think we should be rescheduling and making it the equivalent of alcohol,”
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