Top Dem Congressman Urges Cannabis Reform Vote After Nixon’s Bombshell Admission On Marijuana Resurfaces
Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) has urged Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to place cannabis reform policies up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The founder and co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis said in a Monday letter to his chamber colleague he “strongly” encourages Johnson to “bring bipartisan cannabis legislation to a vote as soon as possible.”
Blumenauer’s letter comes on the heels of Former President Richard Nixon making headlines this past weekend for his admission that marijuana was “not particularly dangerous.” During a March 1973 Oval Office meeting, two years following the launch of the War on Drugs, Nixon privately acknowledged knowing “nothing about marijuana” and “that it’s not particularly dangerous.”
Blumenauer emphasized the five-decade-long classification of cannabis as a Schedule I substance and …