The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to decriminalise cannabis at the federal level for the first time. But the bill is very unlikely to be taken up in the Republican-controlled Senate.
I wonder why we never seem to hear about activism or proposals on this issue in the UK? It used to seem that the US was more conservative on this, but no longer it seems.
Friday's vote was the first time a full chamber of Congress has taken up the issue of federally decriminalizing cannabis. Of the vote count, 222 Democrats were in favor of passing the MORE Act and six were against it. Five Republicans voted in favor of it and 158 voted against passing it.