Since Washington and Oregon legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, businesses that grew and sold marijuana in those states have operated in a kind of legal limbo: they distributed products that were legal under state law, but considered illegal and dangerous drugs in the eyes of the federal government. On Thursday, lawmakers introduced a series of bills that would implement a system for regulating the legal marijuana industry at the federal level and eliminate discrepancies between the state and federal laws covering cannabis and its use.
