[House Prints 117-37]
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                                      MARCH 24, 2022
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                       RULES COMMITTEE PRINT 117-37 TEXT OF H.R. 3617,
                       
                                        THE MORE ACT

                       [Showing the text of H.R. 3617, as reported by the  
                       
                       Committee on the Judiciary, with modifications.]



                          1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
                          
                          2   This Act may be cited as the ï¿½ï¿½Marijuana Opportunity
                          
                          3 Reinvestment and Expungement Actï¿½ï¿½ or the ï¿½ï¿½MORE
                          
                          4 Actï¿½ï¿½.
                          
                          5 SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
                          
                          6   The Congress finds as follows:
                          
                          7      (1)  The  communities  that  have  been  most
                          
                          8   harmed by cannabis prohibition are benefiting the
                          
                          9   least from the legal marijuana marketplace.
                          
                         10      (2) A legacy of racial and ethnic injustices,
                         
                         11   compounded by the disproportionate collateral con-
                         
                         12   sequences of 80 years of cannabis prohibition en-
                         
                         13   forcement, now limits participation in the industry.
                         
                         14      (3) 37 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto
                         
                         15    Rico,  Guam,  and  the  U.S.  Virgin  Islands  have
                         
                         16   adopted laws allowing legal access to cannabis, and
                         
                         17    15 States, the District of Columbia, the Common-
                         
                         18   wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam



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