Consultant Barbara Lee (D-CA), speaks as Home Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler(R) D-NY, Consultant Pramila Jayapal (2ndR) D-WA, and Cons
Consultant Barbara Lee (D-CA), speaks as Home Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler(R) D-NY, Consultant Pramila Jayapal (2ndR) D-WA, and Consultant Steve Cohen (D-TN) look on throughout a information convention, on Capitol Hill to spotlight the MORE Act (Marijuana Alternative Reinvestment and Expungement Act) laws in Washington, DC on November 19, 2019.
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The Home Judiciary Committee authorised a invoice Wednesday that decriminalizes marijuana on the federal degree, leaving it as much as states to set their very own insurance policies on the substance.
The laws, which handed 24 to 10, has a excessive likelihood of approval within the Home, the place Democrats management the chamber with 234 seats.
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