List Of Marijuana Bills Currently Being Considered By Congress

United States Congressman Earl Blumenauer has put together a matrix that shows all of the marijuana related bills in Congress from this session and last session. I will always remember in 2012 when I asked one of my legislative staffer friends what he thought about marijuana and politics. He was very quick to say ‘that is political suicide.’ Here were are three years later and there is legislation in Congress for all types of things that are marijuana related.

There are a lot of bills related to medical marijuana, and even some for recreational marijuana. There are bills for hemp, for states rights, and ones for the industry. All of them have traction in Congress. That’s not to say that they are sure to pass, but it does mean that there are meaningful conversations going on in Congress, which is something that activists have worked for for a long time. Marijuana is a very popular political topic these days, which is long overdue.

Below is the matrix that was provided by Earl Blumenauer’s office. Contact your Representatives and Senators and urge them to support these pieces of legislation:

MARIJUANA LEGISLATION MATRIX – AS OF 7-24-15 – Bills that have been introduced in the 114th Congress
Assembled by the Office of Congressman Earl Blumenuaer (OR-3)
H.R./S.	Legislation in the 113th & 114th Congress	What it does	Lead	Intro Date	# of Cosponsors	Bill Number in the 113th Congress	Previous Lead
Medical Marjiuana
	States’ Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act	Allows for the rescheduling of marijuana in order for states’ medical marijuana programs to operate without federal interference, and be immune from prosecution under federal law, if their actions are in compliance with state and local law.				H.R. 689	Blumenauer
	Truth in Trials Act	Affirmative defense – allows medical marijuana patients to introduce evidence that they followed state law in federal court.				H.R. 710	Farr
H.R. 262	States’ Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act	Prevents the Department of Justice from initiating civil asset forfeiture proceedings against property owners of state-sanctioned medical marijuana treatment centers	Lee	1/9/2015	1	H.R. 784	Lee
	Legitimate Use of Marijuana Act	Moves marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II of the Controlled Substances Act. Provides that in a state in which marijuana may be prescribed for medical use, no provision of the CSA or Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act shall prohibit the prescription or use under state law				H.R. 4498	Griffith
H.R. 1774	Compassionate Access Act	Directs Administration to schedule marijuana at a place other than Schedule I; removes CBD from the definition of marijuana; includes research related provisions.		4/14/2015	3	New but similar to H.R. 4498	Griffith
H.R. 1635	Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act	Excludes “therapeutic hemp” from the definition of marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act. Therapeutic hemp is defined as marijuana with less than 0.3% THC.	Perry	3/25/2015	51	H.R. 5226	Perry
H.R. 667	The Veterans Equal Access Act	Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to authorize physicians and other health care workers employed by the VA to provide recommendations and opinions regarding the participation of a veteran in a state medical marijuana program. This includes authorizing them to fill out any forms involved in the process of recommending medical marijuana.	Blumenauer	2/3/2015	20	H.R. 5762	Blumenauer
S. 683	CARERS Act of 2015	Compilation of a number of medical marijuana related provisions, including provisions relating to veterans access, state rights, CBD, medical marijuana research. Also includes banking provision for both medical and adult use.	Booker	3/10/2015	14		New this Congress
H.R. 1538	CARERS Act of 2015	Companion to Senate bill .	Cohen	3/23/2015	16		New this Congress

Tax and Regulate
H.R. 1014	Marijuana Tax Revenue Act	Creates a federal excise tax on federally legal marijuana sales.	Blumenauer	2/20/2015	7	H.R. 501	Blumenauer
H.R. 1013	Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act	Removes marijuana from the CSA Schedule; creates a federal regulatory framework for marijuana .	Polis	2/20/2015	17	H.R. 499	Polis
Hemp
H.R. 525	Industrial Hemp Farming Act	Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana, and for other purposes.	Massie	1/26/2015	58	H.R. 525	Massie
S.134	Industrial Hemp Farming Act	Amends the Controlled Substances Act to exclude industrial hemp from the definition of marijuana, and for other purposes.	Wyden	1/8/2015	9	S. 359	Wyden
States’ Rights
	Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act	Undoes federal preemption of state marijuana laws.				H.R. 964	Degette
H.R. 1940	Respect State Marijuana Laws Act	Legalizes marijuana at the federal level to the extent it is legal at the state level.	Rohrabacher	4/22/2015	14	H.R. 1523	Rohrabacher
Other
	National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy Act	Establishes the National Commission on Federal Marijuana Policy, looking at efficacy of existing policies .				H.R. 1635	Cohen
H.R. 3124	Clean Slate for Marijuana Offenses Act	To permit the expungement of records of certain federal marijuana-related offenses.	Blumenauer	7/21/2015		New this Congress
	Unmuzzle the Drug Czar Act	Removes langauge from statute prohibiting ONDCP from studying the legalization of any Schedule I substance, and requiring them to oppose attempts to legalize the use of any Schedule I substance.				H.R. 4046	Cohen
	The PLANT Act	Establishes new penalties for causing environmental damage while cultivating marijuana on federal public lands or while trespassing on private property.				H.R. 2735	Huffman
Industry/Business Focused
H.R. 1855	Small Business Tax Equity Act	Amends Internal Revenue Code to allow for tax deductions for normal business expenses for marijuana businesses operating in compliance with state law.	Blumenauer	4/16/2015	12	H.R. 2240	Blumenauer
S. 987	Small Business Tax Equity Act	Senate companion to H.R. 1855.	Wyden	4/17/2015	3	New this Congress	Wyden
H.R. 2076	Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act	Creates protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to marijuana-related businesses.	Perlmutter	4/28/2015	29	H.R. 2652	Perlmutter
S. 1726	Marijuana Businesses Access to Banking Act	A bill to create protections for depository institutions that provide financial services to marijuana-related businesses, and for other purposes.	Merkley	7/9/2015	6	New this Congress