New Bill In Congress Would Dramatically Overhaul How The Federal Government Classifies Drugs While Legalizing Marijuana

Rep. Steve Cohen thinks the DEA shouldn’t be practicing medicine

For more than half a century, federal officials have classified drugs into legal categories that determine who can manufacture, prescribe, or study them, and who goes to prison for possessing or selling them. Those classifications carry enormous consequences. They also reflect decades of political pressure, moralization, myth, and stigma. Rep. Steve Cohen (D–Tenn.) proposes to change that. His Public Health and Research Reforms in Controlled Sub…

New Bill In Congress Would Dramatically Overhaul How The Federal Government Classifies Drugs While Legalizing Marijuana

A Democratic lawmaker has filed a lengthy new bill in Congress that would completely overhaul the federal system for classifying drugs. The Public Health and Research Reforms In Controlled Substances Act, introduced by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) on Thursday, amounts to a wholesale rewrite of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), legislation enacted in the Nixon […]

Neil Gorsuch called this law a ‘curious animal.’ A new bill would tame it

One of the nation’s strangest laws is primed for reform in a new bill from Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., that would bring a dose of logic to federal drug policy. That unusual law — Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch called it a “curious animal” — is the Controlled Substance Analogue Enforcement Act.…

U.S. Congressmember Steve Cohen Introduces Bill to Deschedule Marijuana, Eliminate Mandatory Minimums and Overhaul Federal Drug Laws

The Marijuana Herald - Marijuana news and information Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) introduced legislation today that would remove marijuana entirely from the federal Controlled Substances Act, eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses … Continue reading