While race Baiter Corey Booker isn't on our RMN love list, this should have been passed ages ago.

From CGI member Liam77:

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https://eraoflight.com/2019/03/03/new-senate-bill-would-legalize-marijuana-nationwide/

Take Two

For the second time, Senator Cory Booker announced a bill to make recreational marijuana use legal across the entire U.S. The Marijuana Justice Act, which Booker and Representatives Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna announced on Thursday, would not only legalize marijuana but also retroactively erase marijuana possession charges from Americans’ criminal records, according to Rolling Stone — a monumental shift in U.S. drug policy.

Party Lines

Cory Booker, a 2020 Democratic hopeful, first introduced a similar bill in 2017 that didn’t make it out of the Senate. Still, Booker has made it clear that a major component of his presidential bid will center around ending the War on Drugs, which has led to the over-policing and incarceration of racial minorities for nonviolent crimes.

If Booker’s bill makes it through the Senate this time, those people wouldn’t be left behind.

The new bill would allow people currently in prison for possession to appeal for re-sentencing. People who already served time would have their criminal records expunged, according to Rolling Stone.

“It’s not enough to simply decriminalize marijuana. We must also repair the damage caused by reinvesting in those communities that have been most harmed by the War on Drugs,” Booker said in a statement sent to Rolling Stone.