Cory Booker Lights Up California Cannabis Facility In Drive for Federal Legalization, Tells Workers ‘I’ve Been in the Trenches’
New Jersey Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) paid a visit to the Natura cannabis manufacturing facility in Sacramento, California this week and immersed himself in discussions around cannabis cultivation and regulation. In the backdrop of marijuana grow rooms, Booker greeted the room full of marijuana workers, praising them for taking legal and personal risks to pioneer the industry and set the standard for the rest of the country.
Drawing from his Newark roots, Booker lamented the enduring impact of cannabis prohibition, reported High Times Magazine. “I’m from Newark where marijuana enforcement is disproportionately focused on low-income people, people of color, people who are suffering, people who are struggling. And we have this perverse reality in America where we have people with criminal convictions who are doing things that presidents and congresspeople and senators have admitted to doing. The hypocrisy of that is maddening.”
Booker recently collaborated with Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and 13 others to reintroduce the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act …