Kamala Harris’ U-Turn On Cannabis: Here’s Where She Stands On Weed Legalization Now
“No one should go to jail for ‘smoking weed,’” says Vice President Kamala Harris who has pretty much completed her total turn-around on the topic of cannabis legalization after having prosecuted some 2,000 marijuana offenders in her job as District Attorney of San Francisco, California.
Now that President Biden has bowed out of the presidential race, Harris is the presumptive Democratic nominee in a situation that is unprecedented in modern presidential history. But what does it mean for cannabis?
Harris, who built her career cracking down on gangs and drug dealers, recently criticized past policies that labeled marijuana a “gateway drug” and “failed policies.”
From A Fierce Opponent To A Vocal Proponent
From opposition to California’s Proposition 19, a 2010 ballot measure to legalize cannabis, Harris said, some seven years later, that marijuana needed to be decriminalized. She called to “end the federal ban on medical marijuana” during the Democratic State Convention in 2015, noted CNN.
In 2016, she made history becoming only the second African-American woman to serve in the US Senate.
In a 2017 speech, she said …