12 Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, urged the DEA in a letter to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act altogether.

12 Senate Democrats, including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, urged the DEA in a letter to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act altogether.

Senate Democrats are putting new pressure on the Biden administration to ease federal restrictions on marijuana in a new letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration on Tuesday as it considers rescheduling cannabis after it was federally classified more than five decades ago.

The Department of Health and Human Services formally recommended in August that the DEA move the drug from Schedule I to Schedule III of the Controlled Substances Act, or CSA, prompting a monthslong review, which continues.

The letter, from 12 senators led by Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and John Fetterman, D-Pa., and signed by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., goes further.

“The case for removing marijuana from Schedule I is overwhelming. The DEA should do so by removing cannabis from the CSA altogether, rather than simply placing it in a lower schedule,” the senators wrote in the letter, first obtained by NBC News.

  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 months ago

    Paid family leave, universal federal background checks for gun purchases, meaningful student debt forgiveness, mj legalization, closing corporate tax loopholes, codifying roe

    All of which are blocked by conservatives in the House, Senate, or SCOTUS. That last one you listed simply didn’t happen (Biden has never stated he would be a 1 term president). Their intentions don’t mean a thing when we elect people specifically to stop them.

    • crusa187@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      Biden did in fact say he’d be 1 term

      Look, I know the Dems’ favorite way to do nothing is to complain that republicans will yell at them, or the senate parliamentarian won’t let them, or some other such nonsense. That’s where you need a strong leader to come in and utilize the bully pulpit properly. Biden should have politically beat the snot out of Manchin and Sinema for the first 2 years of his term, and forced them to comply or resign. He had 2 years to get them in line via immense political pressure, and we elected the Dems into a majority with a mandate to do just that.

      Instead, Biden immediately dropped all notions of doing any meaningful change, and actually gave Manchin everything he wanted in the new Mountain Valley Pipeline, a disastrous development for the environment. It could easily be argued that Manchin was in fact president these past 4 years, because he’s clearly the one calling the shots. It’s pathetic.