Cory Booker Says His Fight To Legalize Pot Is About “Restorative Justice” For Communities Hit By The War On Drugs

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The 2020 candidate told BuzzFeed News' AM To DM the government should clear convictions 'of people who have been unjustly convicted of things that two of the last three presidents have admitted to doi

Sen. Cory Booker is reintroducing legislation that would legalize marijuana, expunge possession convictions, and invest in communities hit hardest by the United State’s war on drugs.

The Marijuana Justice Act, which was first introduced in 2017, would make marijuana legal at the federal level by removing it from the list of controlled substance. The bill would also reach farther than any current marijuana legislation by clearing convictions related to marijuana possession. Booker, who recently announced that he is running for president, is joined by four other presidential candidates in the Senate who are co-sponsoring the bill: Sens. Kamala Harris, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Kirsten Gillibrand.

 

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How does legalizing drugs make it restorative? This only gets votes of drug users. Dem doing anything for votes again. What happened to doing what is best for America?

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