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The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, also known as the MORE Act, is a proposed piece of U.S. federal legislation that would deschedule cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act and enact various criminal and social justice reforms related to cannabis, including the expungement of prior convictions.
[9] [10] In addition to decriminalizing cannabis at the federal level, the bill would expunge federal cannabis-related criminal records. It would add new funding for law enforcement to go after illegal marijuana operations. [9] Schumer, Booker, and Wyden at a press conference for the reintroduction of the bill in May 2024
On November 20, 2019, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act passed the House Judiciary Committee by a 24–10 vote. [85] It was the first time a federal bill to legalize cannabis had ever passed a congressional committee. [86] The MORE Act passed the full House of Representatives on December 4, 2020, by a vote of 228 ...
Initially drafted in July 2019, the MORE Act (full name: Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act) is officially intended "to decriminalize and deschedule cannabis, to provide for ...
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 passed by the House on March 6 contained language directing the Department of Justice to study state legalization and regulation, [14] [non-primary source needed] a provision of the failed 2023 PREPARE Act that Rep. Dave Joyce had called preparation for "the inevitable end to federal cannabis prohibition".
The Cannabis Act [a] (French: Loi sur le cannabis, also known as Bill C-45) is a law which legalized recreational cannabis use in Canada in combination with its companion legislation Bill C-46, An Act to Amend the Criminal Code. [2] The law is a milestone in the legal history of cannabis in Canada, alongside the 1923 prohibition.
[73] [74] Legalization was among the executive orders drafted by candidate Bernie Sanders for his first 100 days in office, [75] and candidate Elizabeth Warren promised executive action to deschedule marijuana if Congress did not do so by passing the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act.
Cannabis in Canada is legal for both recreational and medicinal purposes. Cannabis was originally prohibited in 1923 until medicinal use of cannabis was legalized nationwide under conditions outlined in the Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations issued by Health Canada, which regulated medical cannabis effective 30 July 2001, and was later superseded by the Access to Cannabis for Medical ...