RESPECT Resolution has not moved since its introduction on Dec 4, 2025, with cosponsors, all Democrats
IntroducedDec 4, 2025
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What it changes · CRS summary
Written by the Congressional Research Service [2]. 85 words.
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.
Context
- Committees
- House Education and Workforce Committee
House Energy and Commerce Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House Judiciary Committee
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee - Policy area
- Crime and Law Enforcement: 118 of 4,553 bills became law, 113th–118th (2.6%)
- Sponsor
- 1 of 63 bills enacted since 2013
- Text versions
- 1: introduced in house · 920 words
- Latest action
- 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.
- Records
- Congress.gov · Bill text
Exhibit 1Passage odds band at each stage, rated when the bill reached it [4]
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