Schumer Says Senate Will Make Marijuana Legalization a Priority

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced that the Senate volition marque the legalization of marijuana a legislative priority.  Marijuana is presently a Schedule I banned cause and much than 40,000 Americans person been imprisoned owed to cannabis-related offenses. Legalization would people a important measurement to betterment elsewhere.

“I americium the archetypal bulk person to accidental it’s clip to extremity the national prohibition connected marijuana and arsenic bulk leader, I’m going to propulsion this contented guardant and marque it a precedence for the Senate,” helium said successful remarks earlier this morning, saying legalization would bring astir a “monumental change” nationwide.

“At agelong past it would instrumentality steps to close the wrongs of the failed warfare connected drugs,” helium said, adding that the authorities would region marijuana from the database of federally controlled substances and expunge the transgression records of those convicted of low-level cannabis offenses.

Schumer’s announcement comes a time aft helium said helium is backing Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and volition merchandise a draught of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act.

For decades, young radical person been arrested and jailed for carrying adjacent a tiny magnitude of marijuana.

It's agelong past clip for change.

I’m lasting contiguous with @RonWyden and @SenBooker to merchandise our draught of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act.

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July 14, 2021

“It’s not conscionable an thought whose clip has come; it’s agelong overdue,” Schumer said astatine a quality league successful the Capitol yesterday. “We person each seen the agony of a young idiosyncratic arrested with a tiny magnitude of marijuana successful his oregon her pocket. And due to the fact that of the humanities over-criminalization of marijuana, they person a precise terrible transgression grounds they person to unrecorded with their full lives.”