Sen. Thom Tillis, a powerful Republican from North Carolina, suggested in a letter shared with Business Insider that the Senate Judiciary Committee is "likely" to discuss marijuana legalization this year.
The letter was addressed to Rod Kight, a North Carolina lawyer who works with companies in the cannabis industry.
Kight first wrote a letter to Tillis in support of two bills — Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017 and The Marijuana Justice Act — that both seek to de-schedule marijuana and effectively legalize the drug at the federal level. Kight was advocating on behalf of the bills for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, who sponsored the Marijuana Justice Act, sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee with Sen. Tillis.
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