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Bill McKibben, proposed a plank that read: "We will refocus our drug policy by removing marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act and allowing states to set their own policies."But that language was quickly tabled, and after some discussion, the panel unanimously adopted the following language:
"We believe that the states should be laboratories of democracy on the issue of marijuana, and those states that want to decriminalize marijuana should be able to do so. We support policies that will allow more research to be done on marijuana, as well as reforming our laws to allow legal marijuana businesses to exist without uncertainty. And we recognize our current marijuana laws have had an unacceptable disparate impact, with arrest rates for African Americans far outstripping arrest rates among whites despite similar usage rates."
It appears that the DNC is feeling the bern. I do wonder how far left they will go on some issues though. They want to get as many progressives as possible without alienating the independent centerists that will determine the election. Any thoughts?
Public opinion is largely shifting in favor of legalizing pot. Liberals are pretty much all for it, Libertarians have always been for it. Really, the only holdouts are pseudo-conservatives who never practice what they preach (like small government and individual freedom).
A huge chunk of people that I know have absolutely no interest in every smoking the stuff and they all agree that the current policy is absurd. I know few who really think it should be illegal and even if they do, think we expend far too much energy on dealing with it.
So yes, the Democrats are considering something that I actually agree with.
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