Biden Continues To Block Weed Sales In DC After Touting Marijuana Rescheduling And Pardons In SOTU
Washington, D.C. won't be able to legalize recreational cannabis sales as part of the budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2025 that the Biden-Harris administration submitted to Congress on Monday. The D.C. cannabis provision has been blocking the nation's capital from using its local tax dollars to implement a legal recreational cannabis sales program, even though DC voters overwhelmingly approved cannabis legalization in 2014. President Joe Biden decided once again to exclude Washington, D.C. from legalizing recreational cannabis sales as part of the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request on the heels of last week's State of the Union speech, during which he reiterated his stance that no one should be incarcerated for possessing cannabis. Moreover, the Department of Health and Human Services, under Biden's direction, recommended moving marijuana from Schedule I to a Schedule III substance under the Controlled Substances Act, on Aug, 29 in a letter to Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) administrator Anne Milgram.
