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Harris: ‘Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed’

October 11, 2022
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Vice President Harris during a late-night show interview backed the Biden administration’s decision to pardon thousands of Americans convicted of simple marijuana possession, saying “nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed.” Harris told Seth Meyers on NBC’s “Late Night With…

Medical Marijuana Sponsorships of Sports Leagues Could Become a Reality if Biden-Harris Win

Professional sports leagues big and small are looking for ways to offset the revenues lost (and revenues that will be lost in 2021) because of the coronavirus pandemic. But to date, none of the four major U.S. leagues has been…

Over 50 current, former law enforcement professionals sign letter urging Congress to decriminalize marijuana

Over 50 current and former law enforcement professionals have signed onto a letter urging Congress to take swift action on legislation introduced last year that seeks to decriminalize marijuana and expunge past convictions. The letter, which went out on Wednesday…

Pro & Con: Will A VP Kamala Harris Lead to Marijuana Legalization or Set it Back?

Editor's note: Kris Krane, who occasionally contributes to CBE, wrote a Pro and Con set of views in Forbes that provides readers with a look at what a Biden/Harris win could mean for the marijuana Industry based on Harris' track…

Kamala Harris just introduced a bill to decriminalize marijuana

More than half of all states have taken some action to legalize or decriminalize marijuana, but using the drug is still a crime under federal law. Senators, including 2020 contenders Cory Booker (D-NJ), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have proposed legislation to…

Legalizing Marijuana, With a Focus on Social Justice, Unites 2020 Democrats

People in Colorado still remember John Hickenlooper’s crack after the state legalized marijuana, a move he opposed: “Don’t break out the Cheetos or Goldfish too quickly.” But Mr. Hickenlooper, the governor at the time of the 2012 initiative allowing recreational…

2020 Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Support Marijuana Legalization Bill

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, one of half a dozen Democratic senators running for the White House, is reintroducing a bill on Thursday that would fundamentally end the federal government's prohibition on marijuana. The Marijuana Justice Act, which was first introduced…

Where the 2020 presidential candidates stand on marijuana legalization

If there's one thing that united Democrats and Republicans in the Reagan era (besides their unfortunate fixation with perms), it was their near universal hatred of weed. Everybody was a cop back then. Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate for president in 1984, called…

Pot for All: How Congress Is Trying to Make Weed Legal

From decriminalization to opening up the banking industry, both sides of Congress are preparing cannabis bills – but with much different approaches Over the past decade, marijuana legalization has happened at break-neck speed at the state and local level. And yet,…