A ‘Historic Moment’ in House Judiciary Hearing on Cannabis, Veterans, and Research

Democrats want to work with Republicans on cannabis reform. But the hearing indicated that the minority party may be willing to walk away if criminal justice takes a back seat in those efforts.
September 14, 2018
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The House vote on the Medical Cannabis Research Act of 2018, or H.R. 5634, on Thursday held significant symbolic weight: here was a Republican Congress with a staunchly conservative, law-and-order committee chairman, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Virginia, advancing a bill supportive of cannabis.

The cannabis-related bill passed by the House Judiciary Committee is a modest measure, meant to facilitate more research into the medical benefits of the plant by allowing more research institutions to get involved — a process thus far stymied, according to a bipartisan group of congress members, by the Department of Justice and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The measure also would allow Department of Veterans Affairs doctors to refer patients to cannabis-related trials.

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