President Donald Trump issued his executive order on cannabis rescheduling in December, but Cannabis Business Times’ readers in January were most interested in knowing whether Congress would block his administration from following through.
After language aimed at stripping the Department of Justice’s power to reschedule marijuana was included in an earlier version of a government funding package in September, the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations committees released a bicameral package on Jan. 5 that removed the proposal from the final version of the fiscal year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
After language aimed at stripping the Department of Justice’s power to reschedule marijuana was included in an earlier version of a government funding package in September, the U.S. House and Senate Appropriations committees released a bicameral package on Jan. 5 that removed the proposal from the final version of the fiscal year 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
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