An Oregon lawmaker is off to Los Angeles to wrangle support for a proposal calling on Congress to remove marijuana from a federal list of controlled substances.
Sen. Elizabeth Steiner Hayward, D-Portland, leaves Sunday to attend this year's legislative summit of the National Conference of State Legislatures.
There she'll advocate for a proposed directive that would push the national group to lobby more aggressively to pull pot from scheduling under the Controlled Substances Act. The summit runs July 30 through Aug. 2.
The offices of Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, D-Portland, and Senate Minority Leader Jackie Winters, R-Salem, have been involved crafting the proposal's language, said Stephen Watson, Burdick's legislative director. Neither Burdick nor Winters is attending the conference, but staff members are going to push for the proposal, he said.
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