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Analysis: Breaking Down Congress’s Vote To Protect Legal Marijuana States From Federal Enforcement

Published 4 days ago on June 24, 2019

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/analysis-breaking-down-congresss-vote-to-protect-legal-marijuana-states-from-federal-enforcement/

In one of the most significant legislative victories in the history of the marijuana reform movement, an amendment blocking the Department of Justice from interfering in state-legal cannabis programs was approved for the first time in the U.S. House of Representatives last week.
In a 267-165 vote, the measure passed handily, drawing support from all but eight Democrats and nearly a quarter of the Republican caucus. The amendment’s passage seems to affirm what advocates have suspected—that broad reform is within arm’s reach in the 116th Congress.
But a closer look at the vote tally reveals subtle trends, dissents, individual vote flips and developments that paint a fuller picture of the state of marijuana politics in the Democratic-controlled chamber.