Kamala Harris Pledged a Joe Biden Administration Would Decriminalize Marijuana

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris said, if elected, she and presidential nominee Joe Biden would plan to decriminalize the use of marijuana. Harris outlined the proposal’s broad strokes during a virtual roundtable she hosted with ABC through Facebook Live on September 14.

“Under a Biden-Harris administration, we will decriminalize the use of marijuana and automatically expunge all marijuana-use convictions, and end incarceration for drug use alone,” Harris said. “This is no time … for half-steppin’, this is no time for incrementalism. We need to deal with the system, and there needs to be significant change in the design of the system.”

Over the course of her career as California’s former attorney general, and now senator, Harris’s own stance on cannabis has shifted considerably.

As reported by the Boston Globe in August, the former prosecutor was solidly against legalization in California as early as 2010, and as recently as 2014. Then, in 2019, she sponsored legislation that would federally deschedule cannabis, formally legalizing it at the federal level. (Individual states would still need to decriminalize or legalize following federal descheduling.)

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/kamala-harris-joe-biden-administration-decriminalize-marijuana

[ProfessorGAC]

1. About Time

It states with referenda on the issue, haven't all the states legalized by big margins? I know it passed in California about 7 to 5.
Here in Illinois, the decision to legalize was overwhelmingly popular. Around 2:1 approval.
This is a positive issue, especially for a party criticized over the "nanny state" canard.
Glad to here this is being said.

[Midnight Writer]

2. It is beyond ridiculous that legal dispensaries cannot use our nation's banks.

Banks won't accept business from dispensaries because they would run afoul of federal laws.

[beachbumbob]

3. first step but Federal stuff like record expungement would only be for federal level convictions

and not state and local. Each state would have to approve legal sales within the state

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. It's decriminalized in most states already.