Which candidate is legalizing weed

A report from Pew earlier this year found that, in jurisdictions where marijuana is legal, minority entrepreneurs still face barriers when trying to start up a business in the expensive and unique marijuana industry. Where Lierman and Adams differ, however, is over who should be responsible for regulating legal cannabis in Maryland.

He argues the country needs to address the underlying reasons why people use drugs , and says counseling, not convictions, is the proper approach. When someone is undergoing a crisis or is caught using a drug, they should be treated by a health professional rather than punished in a jail cell," he said in a statement.

Buttigieg falls for eliminating incarceration for drug possession, reducing sentences for other drug offenses, applying these reductions retroactively, and also expunging past convictions. We will also regulate it, taking best practices of states that have successfully legalized marijuana. Delaney has supported some marijuana-related legislation in Congress — he represented Maryland in the House from through January — but has not made it a major campaign platform.

He has supported, in particular, proposals to permit veterans to use medical marijuana as part of their official care, and has also supported banking reforms. His campaign says he supports rescheduling marijuana and wants to "create strong federal guidelines and taxation policies to support decisions at the state level.

Gabbard calls for decriminalizing marijuana and studying the effects of state-level legalization. Our current criminal justice system puts people in prison for smoking marijuana, while allowing corporations like Purdue Pharma who are responsible for the opioid-related deaths of thousands of people to walk away scot-free with their coffers full. Harris has been criticized by some cannabis activists for the role she played as a prosecutor and California attorney general in prosecuting drug crimes.

Harris has also argued for ending the use of private prisons while simultaneously addressing the need for treatment and rehabilitation of drug users.

As part of her efforts, Harris supports a "ban-the-box" proposal that stops employers from routinely asking if someone has an arrest or conviction on their record. A former prosecutor, the Minnesota senator has not spoken widely about marijuana as a campaign issue. However, in a brief statement, her campaign said she "supports decriminalization and legalization" but didn't offer any details about the specifics.

Klobuchar has questioned the Trump administration over a potential crackdown on state-legal marijuana programs, and has co-sponsored legislation aimed at protecting state-level legalization. She also supports criminal-justice reform to reduce mass incarceration. Retired: What Now? Personal Finance.

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Follow AMCScam. Image source: Getty Images. The first shows her being asked about marijuana legalization in in light of her Republican opponent for attorney general supporting it. She dismissively laughs off the question.

In her book, The Truths We Hold, she took her message in support of legalization a step further. But when doing so, we need to expunge nonviolent marijuana-related offenses from the records of millions of people who have been arrested and incarcerated so they can get on with their lives. But that admission sparked a small controversy, with several people pointing out that neither artist had released their debut albums prior to Harris graduating.

In a separate interview , the senator said that she knows people who have benefited from using medical cannabis. Both Harris and Biden have evolved their positions on cannabis over time.

Harris, a former prosecutor who campaigned against legalization in her own state has become the lead sponsor of a bill to federally legalize marijuana. Biden, who authored punitive drug legislation during his time as a senator, now supports modest cannabis reforms such as decriminalization and rescheduling, though he continue to oppose legalization.

If the Democratic ticket gets elected, it remains to be seen to what extent the new administration would prioritize drug policy reform efforts and whether Harris would seek to encourage Biden to get behind full legalization. Kyle Jaeger is Marijuana Moment's Sacramento-based senior editor.

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In any case, the new notice—which is subject to a public comment period that ends on December 6—outlines the steps that needed to happen before the government amends a drug schedule. DEA first accepted the petition for the cocaine derivative in November After that point, DEA spent several months collecting information before forwarding their findings and the petition to the U.

However, one judge did say in a concurring opinion that the agency may soon be forced to consider a policy change anyway based on a misinterpretation of the therapeutic value of marijuana. The medication contains purified CBD, a non-psychoactive ingredient in cannabis. In , DEA followed up by clarifying that the drug was no longer considered a federal controlled substance. Photo courtesy of Dominic Milton Trott. The proposals under discussion generally aimed to set aside a class of marijuana business licenses for Black Virginians, who during prohibition were three times more likely to face arrest for simple possession than their White counterparts despite studies showing both groups used the drug at roughly the same rate.

Because a law that divvied up licenses explicitly by race would likely face a challenge on constitutional grounds, Democrats were considering a criteria that opened them to people with past marijuana convictions, their family members, or graduates of a Virginia historically Black college or university. The legislation also proposed an incubator program to help finance startups and a reinvestment fund that would send a portion of tax revenues back to neighborhoods subject to disproportionate enforcement.

During debate on the legislation last year, several Republicans said they would have been inclined to vote for legalization, but could not support a bill that prioritized people with marijuana convictions on their records for business licenses. He said it would send the wrong message to kids to reward people who broke the law. Democrats also planned to include pro-union language aimed at making it easier for marijuana industry employees to organize that drew GOP criticism. Gilbert did not address specifics last week and his spokesman, Garren Shipley, did not return phone calls and messages seeking additional comment.

But he has made clear he expects the legislation to look different next year. For instance, Democrats said they ran out of time to include language that would allow resentencing hearings for people currently serving jail and prison time on serious marijuana offenses.

Legalization advocates like Chelsea Higgs Wise, who founded the group Marijuana Justice, urged Democrats to shift their focus on equity from focusing on business licenses to criminal justice reforms, which she said could present an area of bi-partisan agreement. With legalization, real emphasis must be placed on ensuring minors do not use this drug or have access to it.

His incoming administration has so far declined to say anything else on the subject, responding with a verbatim copy of the July tweet and statement when asked Wednesday if Youngkin has any additional thoughts on the issue. Democrats have already been debating whether to speed up the timeline for retail sales, worrying that the decision to end criminal penalties for possession without creating a legal way to buy the drug is empowering the black market. Lawmakers set a date for retail sales because they said they wanted to give ample time to establish the new Cannabis Control Authority and write regulations that will govern the industry.

An interim option—allowing the currently existing medical dispensaries to begin retail sales as a stop-gap measure—was rejected by lawmakers who worried it would undermine the planned social equity programs by giving the medical companies an unfair head start. And on the Democratic side, some lawmakers are holding out hope they can do both. Discussions have included proposals that would require medical producers to serve as incubators for future social-equity licensees.

Virginia NORML, which has been advocating for legalization for decades, also supports allowing medical dispensaries to sell to recreational customers. Democrats, who still control the commission, are weighing the issue.