Sen. Chuck Schumer said in 2020 that “I am going to do EVERYTHING I can to end the federal prohibition on marijuana” if Democrats took back the Senate. But 14 months since winning, Senate Democrats haven’t even succeeded at changing the little things.
released draft legislation to federally decriminalize and regulate marijuana last summer, but the formal bill has yet to materialize. Schumer said last month that he hopes to introduce it in April, though time is running out for passing such a substantial bill before the end of 2022.
When confronted with these failures, Democrats point to the many hurdles they’ve faced since taking office, including the war in Ukraine and a single-vote majority in the Senate., a longtime champion of marijuana legalization, called the behind-the-scenes budget negotiations a “collapse” of the entire appropriations process, complaining that back room deliberations give individual lawmakers too much veto power over small provisions.
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