Majority Of US Senators Still Oppose Legalizing Weed

The Huffington Post reports:

Even though a supermajority of Americans say marijuana should be legal for adults and the House has passed a bill to legalize it, major cannabis reform remains unlikely this year. Why? Because Republicans and a few Democratic senators don’t want to do it. “Marijuana? I haven’t even thought about marijuana. Jesus Christ, you smoking?” Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) asked HuffPost on Tuesday.

“I’m not where many people in my party are,” Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) told HuffPost. The senator, whose state voted to legalize marijuana in 2020, expressed concern with implementation of a cannabis legalization on the national level. “Are we set up to keep it out of the hands of young people? What’s the law going to be? Can anybody smoke it? There’s a lot of ifs and buts there,” Tester said.

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At best, the bill to legalize weed is short 13 votes in the Senate. Manchin, Tester, and Feinstein are the three Democratic holdouts cited in the linked article.

Even though many Americans say marijuana should be legal and the House has passed a bill to legalize it, legalizing cannabis remains unlikely this year.

Why? Most senators still oppose it.https://t.co/vbb6YJgnF1

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) April 27, 2022