With power changing hands in Washington, D.C., what can marijuana industry members expect from the 119th Congress? Two GOP proposals from the 118th Congress may foreshadow the likely path for federal marijuana legalization. These bills — the “States Reform Act of 2023” and the “Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States (STATES) 2.0 Act” —would explicitly support states’ legal marijuana regimes, while leaving states with the ultimate decision of whether to establish such regimes.
