States’ rights
Title I — Decriminalization of cannabis, public safety, and States' rights › Subtitle B — Public safety and States' rights
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(a) State statutes as operative on termination of transportation; original packages 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. (b) Shipment into States for possession or sale in violation of State law 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. (c) Transportation of cannabis and cannabis products 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. (d) Injunctive relief Section 2 of the Act entitled An Act divesting intoxicating liquors of their interstate character in certain cases, approved March 1, 1913 (commonly known as the Webb-Kenyon Act) (27 U.S.C. 122a), is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as paragraphs (3), (4), and (5), respectively; and (B) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following: (2) the term cannabis has the meaning given the term in section 3 of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act;; and (2) in subsections (b) and (c), by inserting or cannabis after intoxicating liquor each place that term appears.