“I thought you might have been high when you said it”: Cory Booker slams Joe Biden during the Democratic debate for saying he doesn't believe marijuana should be legalized on a federal level
But Booker wasn’t done. “Marijuana in our country is already legal for privileged people,” he continued, to more applause. “It’s why the war on drugs has been a war on black and brown people … With more African Americans under criminal supervision in America than all of the slaves since 1850, do not roll up into communities and not talk directly to issues that are going to relate to the liberation of children.
Biden responded by saying marijuana should be decriminalized and that anyone in jail for marijuana should have their records expunged. “But I do think it makes sense, based on data, that we should study what the long-term effects are for the use of marijuana,” he said, echoing his comments in Las Vegas. “That’s all it is.”
Though more research is never a bad thing, and marijuana’s current status as a Schedule I narcotic has made such such research difficult, the idea that it is a gateway drug hasBiden is the only candidate to have come out in opposition of legalizing marijuana on a federal level.
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