Legal Related Senator Chuck Schumer Asks Fellow Senators to Do This for Marijuana Legislation by Sophia Vida February 11, 2022 First reported by the Ohio Capital Journal, Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer has asked senators to help shape marijuana legislation bill. “Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis once famously said that the states are Americ...
Legal Related Senator Chuck Schumer Gives Update on Federal Marijuana Legislation by Sophia Vida February 01, 2022 In a meeting with equity advocates, Senator Chuck Schumer has recently provided an update on marijuana legalization and banking. The Democrat politician held a meeting with a variety of marijuana reform and other advocacy group...
Legal Related Democrat Senators Introduce Bill to Decriminalize Marijuana at Federal Level by Sophia Vida July 14, 2021 It was a momentous day on Wednesday as Senate Democrats introduced a bill for the first time to end the federal prohibition of marijuana. The legislation would remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances and...
Featured Senate Majority Leader Reiterates Marijuana Legislation Must Pass Before Banking Reform by Sophia Vida May 13, 2021 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has said in a recent interview with The Ringer that marijuana legislation must pass before cannabis banking reform. In the interview, Schumer said he and his colleagues will be “int...
Legal Related Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer Calls 4/20 an “Unofficial American Holiday’ by Sophia Vida April 20, 2021 April 20th came and went but before it went, the United States Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer, referred to the date as an 'unofficial American holiday.' This is because 4/20 is a day that marijuana enthusiasts around the...
Money related House of Representatives Passes Cannabis Banking Bill by Sophia Vida April 20, 2021 For a long time banks have been unwilling to do business with marijuana companies due to the drug being illegal on a federal level. Things may be soon changing. This week the United States House of Representatives passed legisl...
Sector News A Zoom Meeting with Rapper Snoop Dogg Sparks the Launch of the Cannabis Freedom Alliance by Sophia Vida April 07, 2021 GOP mega-donor Charles Koch launched the Cannabis Freedom Alliance this week, an idea that was sparked after Koch had a Zoom call with Snoop Dogg. According to a Politico report, the rapper, Koch, and criminal justice reform ad...
Legal Related Schumer Wants Marijuana Law Changes Even if Biden Isn’t Ready for Legislation by Sophia Vida April 06, 2021 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is ready to make marijuana law changes even if President Biden isn't. President Biden had been the only Democratic candidate during the 2020 Presidential Election that had been against legal...
Legal Related Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to Make Marijuana Reform a Priority by Sophia Vida March 20, 2021 In a Twitter video this week, New York Democrat Chuck Schumer, who is the Senate Majority Leader, has addressed that he wants to make the "long overdue" issue of marijuana reform a priority for Congress. The Senator said it wil...
Legal Related Top Senator Democrats Vow to Legalize Cannabis This Year by Sophia Vida February 03, 2021 Three of the top Senate Democrats, Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, and Ron Wyden, have released a statement this week that declare their intention to legalize cannabis in 2021. “The War on Drugs has been a war on people—particu...