With more states now allowing for recreational marijuana use than ever before, the federal government is slowly warming up to the idea of full-scale legalization. A House Judiciary Committee voted on a landmark legalization bill on Wednesday, voting 24 to 10 to approve the bill and push it to the Senate.
The bill would undo a decision made decades ago to place marijuana on the Schedule 1 list of control substances. As a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana possession is still illegal on a federal level, though lately the government has been largely allowing states to either maintain or curtail their own laws regarding the plant.
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