question: Which Hawaii Democrat, and first American Samoan of the Unites States Congress, sponsored the "Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017"? 
answer: Tulsi Gabbard
context: Title: Vernon Huber
  Passage: Vernon Huber (August 28, 1899 – June 17, 1967) was a United States Navy Rear admiral, and the 36th Governor of American Samoa from April 22, 1947 to June 15, 1949.  He was born in Philadelphia, Illinois, and was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from that state.  He served as the first commanding officer of the USS "Livermore" (DD-429) upon its launch in 1940.  After his appointment, he advocated the diversification of the American Samoan economy.  He also helped to increase the level American Samoan self-government, and was the first governor to serve alongside a Samoan legislature, the American Samoa Fono.
  Title: Bureau of Prohibition
  Passage: The Bureau of Prohibition (or Prohibition Unit) was the federal law enforcement agency formed to enforce the National Prohibition Act of 1919, commonly known as the Volstead Act, which elaborated upon the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.  When it was first established in 1920, it was a unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.  On April 1, 1927, it became an independent entity within the Department of the Treasury, changing its name from the "Prohibition Unit" to the "Bureau of Prohibition".  In 1930, it became part of the Department of Justice.  By 1933, with the Repeal of Prohibition imminent, it was briefly absorbed into the FBI, or "Bureau of Investigation" as it was then called, and became the Bureau's "Alcohol Beverage Unit," though, for practical purposes it continued to operate as a separate agency.  Very shortly after that, once Repeal became a reality, and the only federal laws regarding alcoholic beverages being their taxation, it was switched back to Treasury, where it was renamed the Alcohol Tax Unit.
  Title: Cannabis in American Samoa
  Passage: Cannabis in American Samoa is completely illegal, and the American Samoan government advises that there is a mandatory minimum sentence of five years imprisonment and/or $5000 fine for possession of any amount of illegal drugs, including marijuana, even if prescribed legally in another jurisdiction.  Legislation mandating the minimums passed in the Territory in 1999, with one man receiving a 5-year sentence without probation or parole for one count marijuana possession that October.
  Title: Tulsi Gabbard
  Passage: Tulsi Gabbard ( , born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who has been the United States Representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district since 2013.  She was also a vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee until February 28, 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.  Elected in 2012, she is the first American Samoan and the first Hindu member of the United States Congress.  She served in a combat zone in Iraq.  Gabbard (then known as Tulsi Gabbard Tamayo) served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 2002 to 2004, becoming at age 21 the youngest woman to be elected to a state legislature at the time.
  Title: House Resolution 1227
  Passage: House Resolution 1227, "Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2017", is a U.S. United States House resolution introduced during the 115th Congress.  It would remove cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act Schedule I, and eliminate Federal restricitons on cannabis possession and sale, other than interstate transfers.  It was initially sponsored by Thomas Garrett Jr., a Virginia Republican, and cosponsored by Scott Taylor, also a Virginia Republican, and Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat.  It is reintroduced legislation from 2015, when it was known as S. 2237.  Other Representatives who joined as cosponsors included Justin Amash, a Michigan Republican.  On April 20, 2017, activists from D.C. Cannabis Campaign distributed 1,227 joints made from 1 lb of cannabis to members of congress to urge consideration of the bill.
  Title: Ann Lee (activist)
  Passage: Ann Lee (b. 1929/1930(age –) ) is a Houston, Texas woman who founded Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition (RAMP), a conservative American group in favor of legalization of cannabis.  She has stated "prohibition is not conservative" and compared it to the unconstitutional Jim Crow laws of the American South.  Lee is anti-abortion, voted for Donald Trump, and never smoked cannabis.  Lee's group has been active at both in the state of Texas and at the federal level advocating legalization.
  Title: Fetus Farming Prohibition Act
  Passage: The Fetus Farming Prohibition Act of 2006 (Pub.L.  109–242 , 120 Stat.  570–571 , enacted  19, 2006 ) is an Act of the United States Congress that was sponsored by Republican Senators Rick Santorum, Sam Brownback, Richard Burr and Jeff Sessions, and signed by President George W. Bush.  It is an amendment to the Public Health Service Act ().
  Title: Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act
  Passage: The Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act is a series of federal marijuana decriminalization bills that have been introduced multiple times in the United States Congress.
  Title: Lambert v. Yellowley
  Passage: Lambert v. Yellowley, 272 U.S. 581 (1926) , was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that reaffirmed the National Prohibition Act's limitation on the dispensation of alcoholic medicines.  The five-to-four decision, written by Justice Louis D. Brandeis, affirmed the dismissal of a suit in which New York City physician Samuel Lambert sought to prevent Edward Yellowley, the acting federal prohibition director, from enforcing the Prohibition Act so as to preclude him from prescribing alcoholic medicines.  The decision affirmed the police powers of the individual states, as well as the power of the Necessary and Proper Clause of the United States Constitution, which was cited in upholding the Prohibition Act's limitations as a necessary and proper implementation of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
  Title: Legality of the War on Drugs
  Passage: Several authors have put forth arguments concerning the legality of the War on Drugs.  In his essay "The Drug War and the Constitution", Libertarian philosopher Paul Hager makes the case that the War on Drugs in the United States is an illegal form of prohibition, which violates the principles of a limited government embodied in the Constitution.  Alcohol prohibition required amending the Constitution, because this was not a power granted to the federal government.  Hager asserts if this is true, then marijuana prohibition should likewise require a Constitutional amendment.
citations: Tulsi Gabbard House Resolution 1227