A GOP congressman is seeking to prohibit the Department of Defense (DOD) from using its funds to test people for marijuana when they are enlisting in the military or being commissioned as an officer of one of the armed services.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed an amendment to enact the reform through appropriations legislation covering DOD—one of the latest examples of how lawmakers are aiming to use spending bills to advance cannabis policy changes this session.
“None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to require an individual to submit to a test for cannabis as a condition of enlistment of such individual as a member, or the commission of such individual as an officer, of an Armed Force,” the text of the measure says.
A separate amendment to the DOD appropriations bill that’s being sponsored by Reps. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Daniel Goldman (D-NY) would prevent the use of funding to test most federal job applicants at DOD for marijuana.
Now it will be up to the House Rules Committee to decide whether or not to make the measures in order for floor consideration. The GOP-controlled panel has blocked numerous other bipartisan drug policy reform
Read full article on Marijuana Moment
