Texas Democrats poised to back legalization of marijuana
FORT WORTH — Last week, the Texas Republican Party at its convention in San Antonio approved a platform plank that called for decriminalizing marijuana. Not to be outdone — or more accurately, not to be matched — the Texas Democratic Party appears on its way to embracing legalization of marijuana when it approves its platform here Saturday.
“The 2012 convention was the first time our platform recognized that marijuana needed to be decriminalized. It’s not till 2018, six years later, that we are finally moving from decriminalization to legalization,” said Pedro Villalobos, an Austin member of the platform advisory committee, which drew up the draft language that the committee seemed agreeable to Thursday. Villalobos works as an assistant county attorney in Travis County.
The draft states that Texas Democrats “support Texas legislation to legalize possession and use of marijuana and to regulate its use, production and sale as is successfully done in Colorado and Washington and other states.”
The platform would also “urge release of individuals incarcerated for possession of marijuana and expungement of criminal records of persons convicted or receiving deferred adjudication for misdemeanor offenses.”
Read more: https://www.statesman.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/texas-democrats-poised-back-legalization-marijuana/ZzUIhBEeHbZsZrh1AF3vRL/
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