“This new bill puts the cart before the horse,” he said. When the US House passed a bill in 2021 to decriminalize marijuana, Grassley issued a statement urging research to fully understand the effects of marijuana use. So if the Obama Administration is serious about addressing this epidemic, it should stop burying its head in the sand about what’s happening to its enforcement priorities on recreational marijuana.” And just last year, the Centers for Disease Control found that people who are addicted to marijuana are three times more likely to be addicted to heroin. In 2016, Grassley said in a Senate hearing: “Our country is in the middle of an epidemic of addiction focused on heroin and prescription opioids. For these reasons, I have opposed legislation that would legalize or otherwise expand the marijuana industry.” “It can also lead to addiction and has been linked to later abuse of other drugs in long-term studies done by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It changes the way you think, your ability to learn, and how well you can remember,” he said in 2020 in response to someone reaching out to his office. When you smoke marijuana, or use any other drug, it negatively affects your brain. “Marijuana is illegal because it is dangerous. “And in regards to recreational marijuana, I do not support it at this point because I gotta have proof that it doesn’t lead to higher, harder drugs.” “I want to be very careful that it’s got quality,” he said. Grassley clarified that means the medical marijuana should go through the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for safety and efficacy checks. “I am in support of medicinal marijuana, but not on a willy-nilly basis,” he told Starting Line at a town hall in early September. He does support hemp production and medical marijuana, though with restrictions, and he continually calls for more studies on the question of marijuana use. Chuck Grassley doesn’t support legalization for recreational use. On the other hand and despite his surname, Sen.
In Iowa, you can get up to six months in jail and/or a fine of $1,000 for possession, even if it’s a first-time offense. “And we should have the federal statutes put in place where money, revenue generated by taxing THC is used for interstate commerce just like it would for anything else.”įederally, marijuana is classed as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, which includes drugs such as heroin and LSD. “I view the medicinal use of marijuana and the recreational use, controlled much like we do with alcohol, to be absolutely fine and well overdue,” Franken told reporters on Iowa Press in June. Michael Franken, the Democratic candidate from Sioux City, has been vocal about legalizing cannabis at the federal level, removing it as a controlled substance, and addressing imprisonment for marijuana-related offenses, which disproportionately and predominantly affects Black Iowans. Polls show that Iowans’ support of legalizing recreational marijuana has reached new highs, but where do Iowa’s two US Senate candidates stand on the issue?
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