Opinion: Why Democratic Senator Joe Manchin could be a problem for US cannabis reform

There is, of course, the continued wrath of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his willingness to lean on the filibuster to prevent any Democratic legislation from getting through.

“He’s also repeated that now during the Biden presidency by saying he would do everything in his power to stop President Biden, and now Joe Manchin is doing everything in his power to stop democracy and to stop our work for the people, the work that the people sent us here to do.

Bowman was referring to Manchin’s decision to oppose a heavily supported Democratic legislation to protect voting rights.

While this news isn’t necessarily cannabis-related, Manchin’s position against his own party could end up having dire consequences for the future of federal cannabis reform.

I always ask, ‘How did you get started?’ Most told me they started out with recreational marijuana,” he said in a 2017 article for STAT.

Right now, it doesn’t appear the party has that kind of support from across the aisle.

“We’ve got to pick up another 10 votes,” Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, whose name will appear alongside Schumer’s in the upcoming pot bill, said earlier this year at a American Civil Liberties Union event.

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