Tag: Controlled Substances Act

Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s three big policy proposals may be gaining momentum in the House. But could the marijuana reform bill she introduced earlier this year actually pass in the Senate? And he’s trying to make it happen this week. “The votes are there,” Gardner told Bloomberg in an interview Monday. Senator Cory Gardner (R-CO) discusses his bill that would allow banking for the marijuana industry https://t.co/1JMHPdAEto pic.twitter.com/MSHjjlQt0u — Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) December 17, 2018 The STATES Act, which Warren and Gardner introduced in June, would amend the Controlled Substances Act so that the federal prohibition on marijuana does not apply in states that have legalized the drug, like Colorado and Massachusetts. According to The Denver Post, Gardner’s plan is to introduce the bill as an amendment to the federal criminal justice reform bill that the Senate plans to debate Monday night. Gardner told the Post that introducing the STATES Act as an amendment to the criminal justice bill is “by far and away the best shot” to advance his and Warren’s own bipartisan cause. “I can’t think of a more appropriate piece of legislation than this bill to try as an amendment to,” he said adding that “the president supports this legislation, and in its purest form [the STATES Act] is sentencing reform.” The STATES Act has picked up a total of 10 co-sponsors in the Senate since it was introduced — five Democrats and five Republicans. Gardner says it also has the support to pass a simple-majority vote in the chamber. Trump said in June that he “really” supports Gardner and “probably will end up supporting” the STATES Act.