Sensible Enforcement of Cannabis Act of 2019

Sensible Enforcement of Cannabis Act of 2019

This bill prohibits the Department of Justice from prosecuting marijuana-related conduct that is authorized by state law, subject to specified exceptions.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 493 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 493

  To direct the Attorney General, in enforcing the provisions of the 
 Controlled Substances Act relating to marijuana, to focus on certain 
                        enforcement priorities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 11, 2019

 Mr. Correa (for himself, Mr. Cohen, Mr. Young, Ms. Titus, Mr. Gaetz, 
Ms. Norton, and Mr. Carbajal) introduced the following bill; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Attorney General, in enforcing the provisions of the 
 Controlled Substances Act relating to marijuana, to focus on certain 
                        enforcement priorities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Sensible Enforcement of Cannabis Act 
of 2019''.

SEC. 2. MARIJUANA ENFORCEMENT PRIORITIES.

    (a) In General.--In enforcing the provisions of the Controlled 
Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 801 et seq.) relating to the cultivation, 
manufacture, distribution, possession, or use of marijuana, the 
Attorney General of the United States shall not prosecute for any 
conduct that--
            (1) concerns marijuana for medicinal or recreational use; 
        and
            (2) is authorized by the laws of the State involved.
    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) does not apply with respect to 
prosecution for prevention of the following:
            (1) Distribution of marijuana to minors.
            (2) Revenue from the sale of marijuana from going to 
        criminal enterprises, gangs, and cartels.
            (3) Diversion of marijuana from States where it is legal 
        under State law in some form to other States.
            (4) State-authorized marijuana activity from being used as 
        a cover or pretext for the trafficking of other illegal drugs 
        or other illegal activity.
            (5) Violence and the use of firearms in the cultivation and 
        distribution of marijuana.
            (6) Drugged driving and the exacerbation of other adverse 
        public health consequences associated with marijuana use.
            (7) The growing of marijuana on public lands and the 
        attendant public safety and environmental dangers posed by 
        marijuana production on public lands.
            (8) Marijuana possession or use on Federal property.
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