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Senator Cory Booker introduces bill to legalize marijuana
US Senator, Cory Booker, has introduced a new bill to legalize marijuana on the federal level and encourage states to legalize it locally.
US Senator, Cory Booker, has introduced a new bill to legalize marijuana on the federal level and encourage states to legalize it locally.
Cory Booker wants to legalize Marijuana
“You see these marijuana arrests happening so much in our country, targeting certain communities — poor communities, minority communities — targeting people with an illness,” Booker, the former mayor of Newark, said in a Facebook Live announcement of his legislation.
At the federal level
Booker says the bill would legalize marijuana at the federal level. It will withhold federal money for
- building prisons and jails,
- along with other funds from states whose cannabis laws are shown to disproportionately incarcerate people of color.
The legislation would expunge federal convictions for marijuana use and possession.
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