A key congressional committee is expected to issue a directive this week for federal agencies to study the “adequacy” of state marijuana laws and to assess methods for “preventing diversion of state legal cannabis product into jurisdictions that do not permit the use of cannabis.”
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday is scheduled to take up spending legislation and related reports, one of which contains the marijuana provisions.
The draft report set to be attached to the Fiscal Year 2027 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) bill says the panel “recognizes that over 20 States and territories now permit the adult use cannabis, while over 35 States and territories permit the use of cannabis for medicinal purposes.”
It directs the Treasury Department’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) to “coordinate an assessment of the adequacy of State marijuana regulatory frameworks, including commonalities and novel approaches to enforcement and oversight.”
The committee has approved similar cannabis provisions in past years, but it’s not clear if TTB has ever filed a resulting marijuana policy report with lawmakers.
Here’s the full language of the current directive set to be approved by the committee this week:
“Cannabis Regulatory Framework.—The Committee recognizes that
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