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Senate Sources Claim That Schumer, Booker, and Other Senators Will Meet to Talk About Marijuana Legislation

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other top Democratic senators will meet Wednesday afternoon to talk about marijuana legislation, Marijuana Moment reports. Two Senate sources have confirmed this information.

Advocates and stakeholders have been closely monitoring the cannabis sector since efforts to pass mild reforms in the previous Congress failed. With Republicans in charge of the House, the talks have started up again in a new political climate.

Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), as well as Sherrod Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, will be present at the meeting, according to Punchbowl News’ initial report (D-OH).

Additionally invited was Ron Wyden (D-OR), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; however, a representative informed Marijuana Moment that Wyden would be sending a senior staff member in his place due to “an unavoidable scheduling difficulty.”

We don’t know if the senators will discuss any particular bills or cannabis-related issues, but it seems likely that they’ll continue where they left off at the previous session, with a focus on the so-called SAFE Plus package of marijuana banking and expungement legislation.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and other senior Democratic senators will meet Wednesday afternoon to discuss marijuana legislation, according to Marijuana Moment, which has confirmed this with two Senate sources.

Advocates and stakeholders have been closely monitoring the cannabis sector since efforts to pass mild reforms in the previous Congress failed. The discussions have resumed in a new political environment with Republicans in control of the House.

Senate Sources Claim That Schumer, Booker, and Other Senators Will Meet to Talk About Marijuana Legislation

Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Jacky Rosen (D-NV), as well as Sherrod Brown, the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, will be present at the meeting, according to Punchbowl News’ initial report (D-OH).

Additionally invited was Ron Wyden (D-OR), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; however, a representative informed Marijuana Moment that Wyden would be sending a senior staff member in his place due to “an unavoidable scheduling difficulty.”

We don’t know if the senators will discuss any particular bills or cannabis-related issues, but it seems likely that they’ll continue where they left off at the previous session, with a focus on the so-called SAFE Plus package of marijuana banking and expungement legislation.

Sources in the Senate said that Schumer, Booker, and other senators will meet to discuss marijuana legislation.

It is noteworthy that no Republican senators participated in the conversation, even though senators like Steve Daines (R-MT) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) had previously been confirmed as having participated in discussions about cannabis legislation near the end of the previous Congress.

Last year, Schumer and Booker proposed a comprehensive marijuana legalization scheme, but it soon became apparent that they lacked the 60 Senate votes required for passage.

Negotiations regarding the SAFE Plus agreement between the two chambers of Congress were led by the majority leader to reach a compromise.

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Later, Booker told NBC News that the senators are “all fairly certain” that cannabis reform will be approved by this Congress. It took 30 minutes to complete the meeting.

He stated that “there was a discussion about how do we make progress in this Congress,” adding, “I think that Senator Schumer and I and Wyden announced a strategy for cannabis reform” in the previous Congress. We were not fooling ourselves.

Regardless of how divided our Congress is, compromise is necessary if we are to make any progress. Following failed attempts to include the adjustment in comprehensive defense and budget legislation, Schumer accused Republican senators of sabotaging the bipartisan plans.

The financial parts of the problem have received most of Brown’s attention, despite his close attention to the whole thing.

Being the chairman of the Banking Committee would put him in a position of authority to pass the amendment through the House. He has made it clear that he wants equity and justice incorporated into the banks’ resolution legislation.

Senate Sources Claim That Schumer, Booker, and Other Senators Will Meet to Talk About Marijuana Legislation

Rosen has long pushed for the expansion of the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) federal services to the cannabis industry. It was suggested that this might be a SAFE Plus add-on during discussions.

Since the House has a new leader, the chances of passing marijuana reform have changed, but the meeting on Wednesday is still great news for people who had hoped the Senate would move after the disappointing end of the last session.

Booker recently said in an interview that the continued banking issues brought on by the prohibition of marijuana amounted to a “cannabis catastrophe.” While he believes there is still a potential for reform, Booker has stressed the challenges of the new political climate on Capitol Hill.

Senator Booker has been criticized by some of his constituents for his stance on banking legislation. This is because he has changed his mind about several amendments and amendment packages to the Secure and Fair Enforcement (SAFE) Banking Act.

In a post-election interview, the senator predicted that it may take “many years from now” for Democrats to enact cannabis legislation if it isn’t done in time for the lame-duck session.

Vice President Joe Biden was questioned last week about his position on reforming the marijuana banking industry. The press secretary at the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, said that Congress is currently debating the issue and that the White House has no plans to take any action on its own.

Although he has stressed that each state should be free to set its own rules for cannabis legislation, Biden has not taken a hard stance on the issue of banking marijuana.

His government started speaking out more on the subject when the president issued a sweeping pardon for cannabis possession in October.

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