A top GOP federal lawmaker says that if Washington, D.C. wants to legalize marijuana sales, it should be allowed to do so without congressional interference.
Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, said on Wednesday that D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) raised the congressional rider blocking her District from enacting a commercial cannabis market during a meeting focused on local crime issues.
“We’re looking at everything. We’ve got our policy people looking at that,” Comer said, adding that Bowser previously called his attention to the marijuana sales blockade during a hearing in his committee in May.
At the time, the congressman said he hadn’t heard about the issue and would review it. Asked specifically about whether he supports allowing the District to tax and regulate cannabis on Wednesday, he told NBC Washington that “if that’s what Washington D.C. wants, yeah.”
Comer vaguely alluded to a Senate bill that he suggested could be used as a vehicle to enact the reform, but it’s unclear what he was referencing. Advocates have generally pushed for the simple removal of the appropriations rider that’s been annually renewed for years even though D.C. voters approved legalization at
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