{"id":2537,"date":"2025-06-26T03:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/24-billion-in-tax-revenue-and-growing-why-congress-may-bypass-the-dea-and-legalize-cannabis-directly\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T03:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T03:01:45","slug":"24-billion-in-tax-revenue-and-growing-why-congress-may-bypass-the-dea-and-legalize-cannabis-directly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/24-billion-in-tax-revenue-and-growing-why-congress-may-bypass-the-dea-and-legalize-cannabis-directly\/","title":{"rendered":"$24 Billion in Tax Revenue and Growing &#8211; Why Congress May Bypass the DEA and Legalize Cannabis Directly"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cannabis.net\/drive\/1000\/3743_bVIy_congresstolegalizemarijuana.jpg?width=200&amp;height=200\"><\/p>\n<p>The recent Congressional Research Service report makes something crystal clear that I&#8217;ve been arguing for years: Congress has the power to end cannabis prohibition directly, with &#8220;greater speed and flexibility&#8221; than the bureaucratic maze we&#8217;re currently trapped in. While the Biden administration&#8217;s rescheduling effort has stalled for over a year, and now sits in limbo under the Trump administration, lawmakers could cut through this red tape tomorrow if they had the political will.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Congressional Research Service report makes something crystal clear that I&#8217;ve been arguing for years: Congress has the power to end cannabis prohibition directly, with &#8220;greater speed and flexibility&#8221; than the bureaucratic maze we&#8217;re currently trapped in. While the Biden administration&#8217;s rescheduling effort has stalled for over a year, and now sits in limbo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marihuana.ro\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}