Representatives Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and Earl Blumenauer
(D-OR) this week began circulating a Dear Colleague letter that
urges House appropriators to include language barring DOJ from
prosecuting those in compliance with their state’s medical
marijuana laws. This provision, which has come to be known
as the Rohrabacher-Farr amendment, has been included in annual
spending bills since fiscal-year 2015. However, in that
time, it was added via an amendment on the House floor. The
letter asks that the language instead be included in the base
spending bill for fiscal-year 2018.
For its part, CSAC has urged members of the California
congressional delegation to sign on to the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer
letter. CSAC also supports extending the same protections
to state-legal recreational cannabis.
