Certain federal employers could not test most job applicants for marijuana under a series of new amendments being proposed for large-scale spending bills. And other congressional lawmakers are pushing to promote access to psychedelics for military service members with certain mental health conditions and to expand waivers for Army recruits who test positive for cannabis.
As amendments to several pieces of appropriations legislation are posted by the House Rules Committee, one theme that’s developed concerns marijuana drug testing, with multiple bipartisan lawmakers aiming to loosen restrictions so that cannabis use does not jeopardize a person’s federal employment prospects or prevent them from serving in the military.
Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) has been especially active on that front, recently filing amendments to enact the modest marijuana reform to spending measures covering the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for example.
The amendments would prohibit the agencies from using their funds to carry out drug testing in for most federal positions in the majority of states. The Agriculture version was filed alongside Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) and the others are cosponsored by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), co-chair of
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