10/20/2020
On September 17th, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer publicly committed to holding a full vote on the House floor for the Ma*****na Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act prior to the end of this year.
”The MORE Act remains a critical component of House Democrats’ plan for addressing systemic racism and advancing criminal justice reform, and we are committed to bringing it to the floor for a vote before the end of the year,” Hoyer said.
As it stands right now, 117 of the current 430 seated House members are cosponsors on the MORE Act. But your Representative may not be among them!
You deserve to know where your members stand on The MORE Act before this election: Send a message asking them to state their position now!
More about MORE: The MORE Act removes cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act — thus providing individual states with the authority to be the primary arbiters of cannabis policy and eliminating the existing conflict between state-level ma*****na legalization policies and federal law.
The MORE Act would also make several other important changes to federal ma*****na policy. For example, it permits physicians affiliated with the Veterans Administration for the first time to make medical cannabis recommendations to qualifying veterans who reside in legal states, and it incentivizes states to move ahead with expungement policies that will end the stigma and lost opportunities suffered by those with past, low-level cannabis convictions. The MORE Act also allows the Small Business Administration to support entrepreneurs and businesses as they seek to gain a foothold in this emerging industry.
Does this all sound good to you? But what do your lawmakers think? You deserve to know before November 3rd, so send a message now.
The successful passage of The MORE Act by the House will be the first time since the passage of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 that a Congressional chamber has ever voted on legislation to remove ma*****na from its prohibitive classification under federal law.
This is the momentum we will need to take into the 117th Congress to be within striking distance of ending federal ma*****na criminalization once and for all.