Another Year Without Federal Pot Reform, But States Step Up – Law360

By Sam Reisman (December 10, 2021, 8:18 PM EST) — With both chambers of Congress and the White House under Democratic control, legalization advocates entered 2021 with optimism that the year would bring some concrete changes to federal cannabis policy. While there were multiple new proposals on Capitol Hill for what legalization might look like, the year still closed out without even a modest incremental reform reaching the president’s desk.

If federal cannabis reform efforts stalled out in Washington, the same could not be said of the states, where lawmakers enacted more than 50 new laws in more than 25 states, according to a report released in November by the National…