A gaggle of GOP lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives has put ahead the primary marijuana bill for the newly shaped 118th Congress, searching for to amend federal legislation associated to firearm gross sales to medical cannabis customers.

The bill sponsored by Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) proposes reforms on the “sale, purchase, shipment, receipt, or possession of a firearm or ammunition by a user of medical marijuana, and for other purposes.”

The present legislation bars the customers of cannabis – both leisure or medical – from buying or possessing weapons because the compound is taken into account a federally managed substance.

The proposed laws introduced in the House on Friday is being cosponsored by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), who serves as a co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus.

While additional particulars of the measure should not but out there, cannabis publication Marijuana Moment mentioned it seems to resemble a earlier bill introduced in 2019, which didn’t clear the legislature.

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