The sweeping legislation would decriminalize marijuana federally and expunge federal records related to cannabis charges.
to assuage lawmakers of varying political persuasions by both creating new funding for law enforcement to combat illegal cannabis cultivation while also expunging federal records related to cannabis charges. That second measure would represent a tectonic shift for criminal justice reform advocates. While hard data on the issue vary widely, Pew Research
law enforcement made around 663,000 arrests for marijuana-related offenses in 2018. That reportedly amounts to nearly half of all drug arrests that year.entering the cannabis industry who come from communities hit particularly hard by past drug laws. At the same time, it would also call on the Department of Transportation to develop national standards for marijuana-impaired driving like the one that currently exists for alcohol.
Even though polls repeatedly show legal recreational marijuana garners massive public support, the bill nonetheless faces a steep uphill battle thanks in large part to a minority group of hesitant Republicans and a handful of Democrats, including West Virginia’s de facto Republican Sreleased last year found a majority of U.S. adults said they thought marijuana should be legal for recreational and medical use.
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