Sec. 111. States’ rights
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All cannabis transported into any State or territory of the United States or remaining therein for use, consumption, sale, or storage therein, shall, upon arrival in that State or territory, be subject to the operation and effect of the laws of that State or territory enacted in the exercise of its police powers, to the same extent and in the same manner as though the cannabis had been produced in that State or territory, and shall not be exempt therefrom by reason of being introduced therein in original packages or otherwise.
The shipment or transportation, in any manner or by any means whatsoever, of cannabis from a State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, into any other State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, or from any foreign country into any State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, which said cannabis is intended, by any person interested therein, to be received, possessed, sold, or in any manner used, either in the original package or otherwise, in violation of any law of that State, territory, or district of the United States, or place noncontiguous to but subject to the jurisdiction thereof, is prohibited.
No State or Indian Tribe may prohibit the transportation or shipment of cannabis or cannabis products through the State or the territory of the Indian Tribe, as applicable. Section 2 of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000 ( 27 U.S.C. 122a ) is amended— in subsection (a)— by redesignating paragraphs
(3)and
(4)as paragraphs
(4)and (5), respectively; and by inserting after paragraph
(2)the following new paragraph: the term cannabis has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act ; ; and in subsections
(b)and (c), by inserting or cannabis after intoxicating liquor each place it appears.
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