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Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally to Loosen Restrictions

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 03/23/2016 - 08:45

Medical marijuana advocates are hoping Congress will move to loosen restrictions on the drug and approve reclassifying it from schedule I to schedule II, but legislation to do that, and to loosen research restrictions, has not gained much traction on Capitol Hill.

Patients, dispensary owners, advocates, and several members of the US House of Representatives staged a rally on the Capitol grounds March 22, calling for a congressional vote on the Compassionate Access, Research Expansion, and Respect States (CARERS) Act (S. 683). That bill was introduced in the Senate in March 2015 by Cory Booker (D-NJ). A companion bill was introduced in the House shortly thereafter by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn).

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), whose committee has jurisdiction over the legislation, has said in the past that he wants to increase medical marijuana research but that he is opposed to rescheduling the substance. The committee has not held...

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