With legislation varying from State to State, and an increased social tolerance for marijuana use, questions surrounding how the substance should be legislated have reached the Federal level. On July 10, 2019, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on “Marijuana Laws in America: Racial Justice and the Need for Reform.” Ideas addressed included the question of Federal decriminalization of marijuana, regulation of marijuana along the lines of how alcohol is controlled, and the racial lines along which prosecution of marijuana possession falls. At the hearing, Marilyn J. Mosby, the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City, Maryland, said that as of…

On July 25, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform’s Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy held a hearing called “Examining JUUL’s Role in the Youth Nicotine Epidemic: Part II.” The subcommittee used some 55,000 documents in its investigation. Members said that a division of the JUUL company, which manufactures e-cigarettes, paid schools to be allowed to present information. The company maintains that the programs were to teach students about the perils of nicotine addiction, and that they no longer sponsored such programs. Matthew Myers, who is the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, testified that JUUL was behaving…