Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on Donald Trump’s executive order to reschedule cannabis from a schedule I drug to a schedule III:
“This is just a half step that doesn’t include legalization, doesn’t put the nascent industry on stronger footing, and doesn’t do anything for the many Black and Latino Americans who are behind bars for the kind of cannabis use that millions of Americans engage in freely every day,” Wyden said. “I’ll continue pushing to pass my Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act into law, which would legalize cannabis at the federal level and right the wrongs of the failed War on Drugs.”
Wyden’s Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act would end the federal prohibition of cannabis while implementing strong consumer protections. The legislation was co-authored by Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Cory Booker, D-N.J.
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