The two Senators submitted an amendment to the three-bill appropriations minibus passed by the House on Jan. 8. Their amendment would block the Trump administration from using the bill’s appropriations to reschedule marijuana.
“None of the funds made available by this division may be used to transfer marijuana, as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802), from schedule I of section 202(c) of that Act (21 U.S.C. 812(c)) to another schedule of that section,” the amendment reads.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order in December to reschedule cannabis, a move that grouped the drug with substances such as anabolic steroids and ketamine rather than heroin and LSD. Trump tasked Attorney General Pam Bondi with taking “all necessary steps to
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