• I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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    https://www.marijuanamoment.net/trump-claims-harris-jailed-thousands-and-thousands-of-black-people-over-marijuana-but-her-actual-record-as-a-prosecutor-is-more-nuanced/

    Much has changed since then. She sponsored a comprehensive federal legalization bill in the Senate, and she’s called for ending prohibition altogether as recently as this March, at a roundtable event with pardon recipients where she also called on the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to quickly reschedule cannabis, as the Justice Department has since formally proposed.

    If elected, Harris would become the first president who openly supports marijuana legalization. And the list of potential running mates that she’s reportedly considering also includes a majority who share that position, as well as some who have signed legalization into law in their state.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilyearlenbaugh/2024/08/07/harris-walz-is-first-major-ticket-to-support-cannabis-legalization/

    While Harris has a complicated history with cannabis policy, she has come out in full support of legalization in recent years, sharing that “the War on Drugs was an abject failure. It’s time to legalize marijuana and bring justice to people of color harmed by failed drug policies.”

  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Her smoking pot herself is irrelevant, it’s bad that people were prosecuted for using drugs.

    The hypocrisy doesn’t matter, all politicians are lying hypocrites, I’m voting for the one that ain’t supported by Nazis trying to drag America backwards a hundred years.

  • radix@lemmy.world
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    There are things I disagree with Harris about, but this cycle, I’m a single issue voter.

    That issue is “never having to experience Trump in any office ever again.”

    Hopefully my politics can be a little more nuanced next time.

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      I’m voting against worsening climate change. Outside of that they’re both neo liberal shitheads.

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    Prosecutors don’t write the law, and prosecutorial discretion is only actually meaningful when circumstances are unusual.

    She didn’t have an option to just not do drug charges.