Matthew Schweich joined the staff of the Marijuana Policy Project in the spring of 2015. Over the following ten years, he made significant contributions to the American cannabis reform movement as a ballot initiative campaign manager.
As MPP’s Director of State Campaigns, Schweich led the organization’s ballot initiative operations. During the 2015-2016 election cycle, he served as the Campaign Director of the adult-use cannabis legalization ballot initiative campaigns in Maine, Massachusetts, and…
A handful of federal cannabis bills have been introduced this session. But in order for these bills to move forward, they need to receive a hearing this year.
Two committee members who voted to kill the bill — including Chairman Dan Laughlin — made it clear they support legalization but opposed the House’s approach.
While the bill makes some modest improvements to the medical cannabis program, the conference committee revised it to include alarmingly punitive and intrusive provisions.
In recent weeks, both the Texas Legislature and appellate courts have been imperiling the will of voters who enacted local cannabis decriminalization ordinances.
