Cory Booker has reintroduced his U.S. Senate bill to legalize marijuana at the f...
WASHINGTON - Cory Booker has reintroduced his U.S. Senate bill to legalize marijuana at the federal level. Beto O’Rourke called for expunging the records of those arrested for possession of the drug. Kamala Harris admitted she had smoked pot - and inhaled.
Their embrace of the issue reflects a rapid shift in public opinion that has brought what was once an extreme political position into the mainstream. “The Democratic candidates are just acknowledging the practical and political reality - this is not only good policy, it’s good politics,” said Erik Altieri, executive director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
Most other contenders also have taken public stands in support of some degree of legalization, with many linking the issue to criminal justice reform and protesting that racial minorities are disproportionately arrested for possession and hit with harsh sentences. Harris, a former California attorney general and San Francisco prosecutor, opposed a California ballot initiative in 2010 that would have legalized marijuana. The initiative failed.
“It’s time for Congress to acknowledge that marijuana legalization is working in states like Washington, Colorado, and others and legalize marijuana as well,” Inslee, who plans to pardon thousands of people convicted of small-time possession charges, said on Twitter in October.
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