Cannabis Research Bill Is Passed By U.S. Senate

Another marijuana research bill has been introduced, this time to the U.S. Senate following the introduction of a similar bill last week by the House of Representatives.

Last week, legislators from both sides of the political aisle introduced the Medical Marijuana Research Act to the House of Representatives, which seeks to allow researchers to use dispensary cannabis for their studies, as opposed to current regulation which only allowed for marijuana grown at the University of Mississippi to be studied.

Just one week later, a similar marijuana research bill was passed by the U.S. Senate called the Cannabidiol and Marihuana Research Expansion Act, which was initially introduced in 2019.

The bill seeks to remove red-tape when it comes to researching cannabis-derived medicines, expediting research for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA.)

Given that just last week a very similar bill was introduced by representatives on both sides of the political spectrum, Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), it stands to reason that this senate bill will likely be passed with bipartisan support.