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Big Bills Are a Bust: Why Piecemeal Legislation is the Way to Go for Federal Cannabis Reform

Government Law Review

Vol. 16, Issue 1, 2023
September 7, 2023

By: Sierra Taylor Horton

“On April 20, 2021, United States Senate Majority Leader for the 117th Congress, Chuck Schumer, took to the Senate Floor and demanded 4/20 an “unofficial American holiday.”

“It’s as appropriate a time as any to take a hard look at our laws that have over criminalized use of marijuana and put it on par with heroin, LSD, and other narcotics that bare little or no resemblance in their effects, either on individuals or on society more broadly,” Schumer stated.”

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