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Legalizing marijuana, once a pipe dream on Capitol Hill, takes an important step forward

  • Written by Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Professor of Health Policy & Management, USC Sol Price School of Public Policy & Senior Fellow, Leonard D Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, University of Southern California
Legalizing marijuana, once a pipe dream on Capitol Hill, takes an important step forwardActivists wave flags in front of the U.S. Capitol to demand that Congress pass cannabis reform legislation on Oct. 8, 2019.Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

In early December, the House of Representatives passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, or the MORE Act.

The bill sought to decriminalize marijuana nationally by...

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