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Democratic vice presidential nominee and California Sen. Kamala Harris put marijuana policy on the agenda as an issue in the November presidential election, promising that she and former Vice President Joe Biden would decriminalize cannabis.
Harris announced the position at an ABC virtual town hall Monday. "Under a Biden-Harris administration, we will decriminalize the use of marijuana and automatically expunge all marijuana-use convictions and end incarceration for drug use alone," Harris stated. "This is no time for half-steppin'. This is no time for incrementalism. We need to deal with the system and there needs to be significant change in the design of the system."
It's the most progressive position taken by either of the leading parties in this election. It's consistent with the Democratic Party platform and statements by Biden on the campaign trail. It also stops short of full marijuana legalization, a measure that Harris supports but Biden does not.
"No time for half-steppin'" is an ironic choice of words when they could be advocating for outright legalization which 67% of all Americans support, with majorities in both parties.
From what I understand legalization is pretty much bipartisan both Republicans and Democrats want it.
Apparently Republicans do not want it, or they would have done it already. Dems have introduced a number of tickets to legalize it only to be snuffed out by the Pubes.
Biden will take up whatever position he is told to support. If he really believed in decriminalizing it, why didn't he do that during his 8 years as vice president, or his 4 decades in the senate???
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