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WASHINGTON, D.C.-Led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat, the Democratically-dominated U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday to decriminalize recreational marijuana at the federal level, an unprecedented move towards possibly making marijuana legal nationwide someday, and an indication that Congress wants to have some say, one way or another, over marijuana laws from a federal perspective.
Sponsored by Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., the measure would remove marijuana from the federal list of controlled substances, provides for federal expunging of marijuana convictions, and would no longer make college-bound students with such convictions ineligible for federally assisted aid and student loans on that basis.
The bill passed primarily along partisan lines, 228-164 with six Democrats joining 158 Republicans in opposing the measure.
It was the first of its sort by either chamber of Congress.
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