April began with federal marijuana legalization passing the House, and activists are pressing Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to bring it to a vote in the Senate before the calendar changes again.

The House passed the MORE Act on April 1 by a 220-204 voice vote. If the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act becomes law, though it faces an uphill Senate battle, states will have sole responsibility for a drug Congress first regulated in 1937.

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