Two GOP senators, including the lead Republican sponsor of a marijuana banking bill, have officially filed new legislation to prevent federal agencies from rescheduling cannabis without tacit approval from Congress.
Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Steve Daines (R-MT) are sponsoring the Deferring Executive Authority (DEA) Act, which they briefly previewed this week in statements about the filing of the revised Secure and Fair Enforcement Regulation (SAFER) Banking Act.
The DEA Act, introduced on Thursday, would make it so any administrative proposal to transfer marijuana “between schedules” of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA)—as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) as part of a review directed by President Joe Biden—must first be submitted to Congress for review. If lawmakers oppose it, they would then have 60 session days to pass a joint resolution to block its enactment.
“Congress makes the laws in this country, not D.C. bureaucrats,” Lummis said in a press release on Thursday. “The American people through their elected representatives in the Senate and House should have the final say on such a momentous change as the legalization of marijuana.”
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