Amazon is lobbying on behalf of Republican-sponsored marijuana legalization bill

Amazon — the multinational e-commerce giant — is working to generate bipartisan support in Washington, D.C., for the federal legalization of marijuana.

On Tuesday, the company endorsed Republican South Carolina U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace’s States Reform Act. The freshmen representative is working to remove cannabis as a federal schedule I substance and introduce a 3% federal tax on it as well. Mace’s intends to use tax revenue generated from legal marijuana sales to fund law enforcement and veterans’ health programs.

Should the States Reform Act become law, it would still be illegal for people under 21 to consume marijuana unless prescribed it for medical use.

“Today, only 3 states lack some form of legal cannabis,” Mace said after filing the States Reform Act in the House of Representatives, “Every state is different. Cannabis reform at the federal level must take of all this into account. And it’s past time federal law codifies this reality.”