Rep. Nancy Mace, a first-term Republican from South Carolina, has introduced a bill to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level.
at the federal level, which she hopes will garner more GOP support for the legalization movement.
Mace's bill would strip cannabis of its classification as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, which makes possession of marijuana a crime. Her office said the legislation aims to end criminalization"in a manner consistent with the rights of states to determine what level of cannabis reform or legalization each state wants to regulate, or not.
The legislation further calls for a 3 percent federal excise tax on marijuana, lower than the level in a Democratic bill that is making its way through the House.
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