Troy Carter will be an advocate for the legalization of marijuana and the elimination of student loan debt.
Advocate for the legalization of marijuana.
Occurrences
Evidence
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The official House homepage lists latest news items dated June 8, June 5, and May 29, 2026, and text searches on the page found no matches for "marijuana", "cannabis", "hemp", or "legalization".
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The enrolled House-passed text states that H.R. 3617 was an act "To decriminalize and deschedule cannabis" and was cited as the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act or MORE Act.
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Congress.gov lists "Rep. Carter, Troy [D-LA-2]" as a cosponsor of H.R. 3617 on 10/22/2021.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 107 on H.R. 3617, the MORE Act, as passed 220-204; the vote list shows "Carter (LA) Democratic Louisiana LA Yea."
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Congress.gov summarizes H.R. 3617 as a bill that "decriminalizes marijuana" by removing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act schedules and eliminating criminal penalties for manufacturing, distributing, or possessing marijuana. Latest action was Senate referral after House passage.
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Congress.gov lists "Rep. Carter, Troy [D-LA-2]*" as an original cosponsor of H.R. 5601, the 118th Congress MORE Act, on 09/20/2023.
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Congress.gov states H.R. 5601 had status Introduced and latest action of referral to the Subcommittee on Trade; its summary says the bill decriminalizes marijuana by removing it from Controlled Substances Act schedules and eliminating federal criminal penalties.
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GovInfo lists H.R. 5068 in the 119th Congress as the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, with the full title "To decriminalize and deschedule cannabis" and the introduction line including "Mr. Carter of Louisiana" among the members for whom the bill was introduced.
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Carter's official House release says he and Rep. Dina Titus introduced the EDUCATE Act, creating pathways for minority students to study jobs in the legal marijuana market; the release also describes Carter as a member of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus and a leader on cannabis policy.
Assessments
Carter promised to advocate for marijuana legalization, not necessarily to enact legalization singlehandedly. During his first House term, he cosponsored H.R. 3617, the MORE Act, and voted yea when it passed the House on April 1, 2022. The bill directly decriminalized and descheduled cannabis at the federal level, matching the substance of the promise. Later cosponsorship of reintroduced MORE Acts and cannabis-policy work reinforces continued advocacy, but same-term House action is enough for delivery.
The available evidence only shows no marijuana-related public action on Carter's official site during the recent lookback window. That is not enough to establish that he fulfilled or seriously advanced this advocacy promise, so the claim cannot be confidently marked delivered, partial, or never from the supplied record alone.