Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) are soliciting support for a federal marijuana legalization bill that they plan to introduce later this month, setting a sign-on deadline for original cosponsors on the eve of the cannabis holiday 4/20.
In a Dear Colleague letter that was circulated on Tuesday, the senators said that a “growing number of Americans have made it clear, at ballot boxes, through their legislatures, and with their dollars: the War on Drugs has failed, and the federal government must respect the decision of states that have chosen to legalize cannabis.”
That should involve passing the forthcoming Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act (CAOA), they said. The bill that they plan to file this month will be largely identical to an earlier version they previously introduced in 2022.
“The question today is not whether cannabis should be legal—many states have already moved ahead. The question now is whether cannabis should be subject to the same high regulatory standards, based on preserving public health and safety, that apply to alcohol and tobacco,” Schumer, Wyden and Booker wrote to colleagues.
“Federal regulation is long overdue to ensure that cannabis
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