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Nov 16 4 tweets 2 min read
New #safebanking news: Sen @SteveDaines told me he is open to adding the HOPE Act as part of “safe plus” legislation that could be included in an end of the year package.

HOPE is the @RepDaveJoyce/@AOC bill that gives states $$ to expunge cannabis-related records.
“We're open to some additions to [SAFE]. I think the HOPE Act is one,” Daines said. “But if it gets bigger than that, I think we're gonna have a problem.”
Daines also told me Monday night that he had a bipartisan meeting with Schumer planned for Tuesday to discuss the path forward for SAFE.
Why is this important? @SenBooker and other progressives want there to be criminal justice reform elements paired with SAFE. Rs haven’t been budging on that for over a year, until now.

HOPE appeals more to Rs b/c it is bipartisan, narrow and states rights focused.

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Nov 17
🚨 Congress just passed its first marijuana bill.

@SenSchumer took the podium tonight to usher through the Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol Research Expansion Act, which passed by unanimous consent.

The bill passed the House in July, and now heads to Biden's desk. Image
The bill, which is the product of two separate medical research bills introduced by @repblumenauer and @SenFeinstein/@GrassleyPress, expands medical marijuana research and protects doctors who discuss mmj with patients.
Note: One key element of the House bill — allowing scientists to purchase and research marijuana products commonly sold in legal recreational and medical dispensaries around the country — did not make it into the final version.
Read 6 tweets
Nov 16
Really quick "how Congress works" moment: just because a bill has been introduced in Congress does not mean that it is a serious contender to be passed in any chamber.

There are **45** cannabis bills that come up in a basic search of the term in Congress.gov.
There's a bill that allows cannabis advertising.
There's a bill to clarify insurance laws for weed biz.
There's a bill to give weed biz SBA loan access.
There are -multiple- vets related weed bills.
There are -multiple- bills to federally decriminalize.
Some parts of some of these bills might sometimes get folded into something bigger -- like what Daines, Joyce, AOC, etc. are discussing with pairing the HOPE Act with the SAFE Banking Act. But they'll never pass all of those bills in any given year. Some will never pass.
Read 4 tweets
Nov 15
Yesterday @AOC told me that she'll be talking about her HOPE Act at today's Oversight subcommittee hearing on #cannabis. The hearing starts in any minute and will be streamed here: oversight.house.gov/legislation/he…
Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) just thanked Biden for his executive order looking at the scheduling of marijuana.
Raskin says this hearing is to see what can be done on cannabis in the next Congress, whichever party is in control.
Read 14 tweets
Oct 7
Reminder that five states have adult-use/recreational marijuana legalization ballot measures on the docket this November: Arkansas, Missouri, North & South Dakota and Maryland.
ICYMI: South Dakota voters approved legal rec weed in 2020, but the result was thrown out by the state Supreme Court for language that didn't fall within the state's constitutional purview for ballot measures. argusleader.com/story/news/202…
All five states have already legal medical marijuana programs.
Read 4 tweets
Oct 6
🧵Thread: I've never received more statements from lawmakers, orgs, etc than I have this afternoon after Biden's weed announcement. I can't include most of them in what I'm writing but it's still interesting so here's a running thread of what I can find (this is non-exhaustive).
Read 19 tweets
Oct 6
Very very big breaking cannabis news out of the White House right now:
Biden will be pardoning everyone with nonviolent federal offenses — a low number of people. But the biggest news is that Biden is asking the HHS Sec and the Attorney General to “expeditiously” review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. politico.com/news/2022/10/0…
“A review by HHS of how cannabis is scheduled is welcome, but those of us who have been advocating for reform, we already know that a comprehensive federal solution is needed.” - statement from Sen @RonWyden.
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