On September 29, I spoke on an opening panel at the 7th annual Cannabis Law Conference for the Cannabis Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan. My co-panelist was the renowned Brookings political scientist John Hudak. One of John’s specialty areas is state and federal marijuana policy. The title of our panel was “Update on the Federal Policy Landscape Including Congress and the Executive Branch.”
During the presentation, both John and I talked about how skeptical we are that the Biden Administration will do anything around marijuana legalization. And we both agree that this Congress will likely do nothing at all (just look at what’s happened with the SAFE Banking Act, for one sorry example).
John presented incredibly interesting points and data, including the fact that most congressional candidates running in these mid-term elections hardly even mentioned the word marijuana when stumping. let alone talked about legalizing it. What does that mean? To paraphrase John, it likely means that marijuana legalization isn’t really a serious topic for the federal government despite its overwhelming bipartisan support from voters.
Towards the end of the panel, the issue came up of what exactly it will take to get Congress to move on
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