Watch Chuck Schumer talk about marijuana reform

[Intrinsic]

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) says lawmakers are in the process of merging various marijuana bills, including his own legalization legislation, as the chamber works to enact reform this session.

In an interview on Wednesday night with former NBA player Al Harrington, who owns the cannabis company Viola Brands, Schumer talked about his support for ending federal cannabis prohibition, what he hopes reform to accomplish and the political state of play for marijuana in the early days of the 117th Congress.

Notably, he said “our bill—the bill that I put in—now we’re putting it together with some other bills.”

Watch Schumer talk about marijuana reform efforts:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKkZKT5FaQ8/

And this after Vice President Kamala Harris, as Senator Harris, was a prime sponsor of the MORE Act, which would remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act. The House passed its version of that bill in December.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-con ... 7D&s=1&r=3

https://mjbizdaily.com/us-house-passes- ... ral-level/

[Polly Snark]

Passed it in the house Dec 2020. Didn't get a vote in the Senate. Now they are talking about watering it down.

It's like an argument with someone who won't admit they were wrong in the first place. Instead of repealing it they Making excuses why they can't, trying to justify the ends and the means and the damage they have caused with the CSA, the drug war in general. And for what?

Of course we are closer now than we have been in my lifetime to at least remedying some of it. But I can't help but be bitter over the situation, when I should be rejoicing.

*steps off soapbox*