Senate Judiciary Committee Likely to Confirm Michele Leonhart Today

The Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to confirm Michele Leonhart today. In the past she has proven to be hostile towards both hemp and medical marijuana so her nomination is opposed by progressives in both movements.

Senate Judiciary Committee Likely to Confirm

"And she is being opposed as well for her DEA's recalcitrance when it comes to industrial hemp. In a July letter a to the committee, the industry group Vote Hemp said it opposed Leonhart's nomination because under her tenure DEA continues to block hemp production in the US, has failed for more than three years to respond to several applications from North Dakota-licensed farmers to grow hemp, and continues to maintain the ridiculous fiction that hemp is marijuana."