House Passed Historic Cannabis Decriminalization Bill

January 25, 2021

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Kolhatkar speaks with Paul Armentano about

The House’s historic Cannabis decriminalization bill.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted last

week to pass a historic bill to decriminalize

marijuana nationwide called the MORE Act.

The Democrat-controlled House passed the

bill 228-to-164 as growing numbers of states

around the nation have legalized Cannabis.

House Democrats linked the passage of the bill

to the harm that the “war on drugs” has done to

communities of color especially. Republican

lawmakers opposed the bill making it unlikely to

pass the Senate, however. Republican voters, like

Democrats, are largely in favor of legalization.

Paul Armentano, Deputy Director of NORML, an

advocacy group working on marijuana legalization.

He also serves on the faculty of Oaksterdam

University in Oakland, where he is the Chair of Science.

He is a regular contributor to TheHill.com as well as to

numerous other print and online publications, and is

the co-author of the book Marijuana is Safer: So Why

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