Congressional marijuana & hemp amendments to military bill (Newsletter: September 4, 2025)

*Trump allies talk cannabis rescheduling: Poll: Marijuana biz not
optimistic about reform this year; NE medical marijuana rules*

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*/ TOP THINGS TO KNOW*

The House Rules Committee is set to consider National Defense Authorization
Act amendments to expand waivers for military recruits who’ve tested
positive for marijuana and to allow service members to use legal hemp
products.

Republican political operative Roger Stone and former White House Press
Secretary Sean Spicer discussed their differing perspectives on the
prospects for federal marijuana rescheduling under President Donald Trump.

The Massachusetts legislature’s Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy approved
bills to create employment protections for marijuana consumers and add PTSD
and opioid use disorder as medical cannabis qualifying conditions.

A new survey shows that licensed marijuana business operators are not
optimistic that cannabis will be federally rescheduled this year—even
though 97 percent say the reform is “important” to the “long-term
viability” of their companies.

The Nebraska Medical Cannabis Commission adopted emergency rules that ban
smoking, vaping and edibles, and limit the number of cultivation and
product manufacturing licenses.

*/ FEDERAL*

The Drug Enforcement Administration Museum posted a video about a plaque
from its collection that hung in the office of predecessor agency the
Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tweeted, “Federal laws that criminalize marijuana are
outdated and unjust. Supporting the MORE Act because we need comprehensive
reform to federally decriminalize marijuana and address the impacts of the
failed ‘war on drugs.’”

The House bill to federally legalize marijuana got three new cosponsors for
a total of 43.

*/ STATES*

Massachusetts’s treasurer plans to appeal a ruling reinstating the state’s
top marijuana regulator after she was removed.

A Michigan senator said legalizing marijuana has helped to address racial
disparities in the criminal justice system.

A Virginia senator tweeted, “Any legal marijuana market bill has to
strengthen the punishments on illegal stores. These shops are setting up
under false pretenses and selling illegal products to children. And it has
to stop.”

California regulators sent guidance about embargoed cannabis products,
representative sampling and other issues.

Washington State regulators posted an updated list of pesticides allowed to
be used in marijuana production.

The New York Cannabis Control Board will meet on Tuesday.


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*/ LOCAL*

A Chicago, Illinois City Council member is blocking a marijuana dispensary
run by former police officers from opening.

*/ SCIENCE & HEALTH*

A study provided “initial support for the efficacy and tolerability of the
hemp-derived, high-CBD product in patients with moderate-to-severe levels
of anxiety.”

A study’s results “contradict research suggesting chronic users (vs.
non-users) are more impulsive, lack inhibitory control, tend to invest
physical effort regardless of reward, and tend not to invest cognitive
effort for reward,” suggesting that “chronic cannabis use may not impair
decision making as profoundly as previously thought if individuals are
motivated by potential consequences of their decisions in tasks with low
memory demand.”

*/ BUSINESS*

Standard Wellness Holdings, LLC is acquiring GreenBud, LLC.

The National Labor Relations Board issued an order removing United Food and
Commercial Workers Local 655 as the exclusive representative of a unit
Shangri-La workers in Columbia, Missouri.

Suntory’s CEO resigned amid an investigation of suspicion of possessing an
illegal drug, but he says he is “innocent” and just used a CBD supplement.”

SHF Holdings, Inc., d/b/a Safe Harbor Financial launched a fully managed
cannabis banking program.

Organigram Global Inc. published a report finding that in 2024 Canada’s
legal cannabis industry contributed more than C$16 billion to national
gross domestic product, generating nearly C$29 billion in total economic
output.

*/ CULTURE*

Kid Cudi spoke about how he scaled back his marijuana consumption after it
previously “truly ruled my life.”

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