A GOP congressman says President Donald Trump made it “very clear” his administration should move forward with rescheduling marijuana, and so he isn’t concerned about the possibility that the Justice Department will delay or ignore the recent directive to complete the process.
Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH), co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, told Marijuana Moment on Thursday that he doesn’t think Attorney General Pam Bondi would seek to undermine the president’s executive order to move marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) despite any personal reservations she may have.
The congressman—who attended the Oval Office signing ceremony for the rescheduling order last month and has sponsored or cosponsored a number of marijuana reform bills over recent sessions—said Trump “was pretty clear about what he wanted and where he wants to go, so I can imagine it’s a good opportunity—the rescheduling of it—to be able to do the things that are necessary to study it and figure out, good or bad, what the impacts are.”
“Certainly the ability exists to reschedule,” Joyce, who has also sponsored legislation to give cannabis businesses access to the banking system, said.
The Department of Justice has not yet commented
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