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RESPECT Resolution
Urging action to increase equity within cannabis policy and the legal cannabis marketplace.
- Introduced
- Committee
- Agreed to in House
Summary
Realizing Equitable & Sustainable Participation in Emerging Cannabis Trades Resolution or the RESPECT Resolution
This resolution encourages states and localities to adopt best practices and take bold steps to address disparities in the cannabis marketplace and to address, reverse, and repair the effects of the war on drugs on communities of color. The resolution also expresses the sense that the President should direct the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to seek to treat cannabis as a legal commodity.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress.
Actions
- Dec 4, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Education and Workforce, Foreign Affairs, and Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
- Dec 4, 2025 Submitted in House
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