MJ Biz Daily: Schumer’s marijuana reform bill poised to fail without more GOP support

By Matt Laslo

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has a seemingly unsolvable puzzle on his desk when it comes to federal marijuana reform.

He doesn’t have enough support in his own party to decriminalize marijuana, even as Republican senators reject his demand that criminal justice reform be included.

Unless Schumer can work magic, marijuana reform is – once again – destined to die during this session of Congress, despite the Democratic Party’s repeated promises to decriminalize, legalize and eventually normalize the plant.

Earlier this month, the House of Representatives once again approved legislation – the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act – that would end the federal government’s prohibition on marijuana….

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