A Republican member of Congress has filed an amendment that would expand waivers for military recruits who’ve tested positive for marijuana.
The amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) filed by Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) acknowledges that the Army and Navy have already “taken positive steps in their work to design and implement a waiver system that permits potential enlistees into the Armed Forces to reapply for enlistment following a positive toxicology test for tetrahydrocannabinol.”
It calls on the Air Force, Space Force and Marine Corps to follow through, especially “given the ongoing recruitment and retention challenges undermining the Armed Forces readiness goals.”
A similar measure filed by Joyce, who is a co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, was passed by the House of Representatives last year but was not enacted into law.
The current measure would require those military branches to “develop and implement their own permanent waiver system commensurate with the process employed by the Army and Navy.”
It says that the secretary of defense “shall develop a program through which to provide waivers for potential enlistees into the Armed Forces who were not permitted to enlist following a positive toxicology test for tetrahydrocannabinol so that such potential
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