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Kamala Harris VP pick on cannabis - I think every dem VP candidate was in agreement, or to the left of Joe. The BIDEN-SANDERS UNITY TASK FORCE RECOMMENDATIONS on cannabis are excellent and IMO left a lot of room to protect the MSOs.

https://joebiden.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/UNITY-TASK-FORCE-RECOMMENDATIONS.pdf

The senator has made criminal justice reform—including marijuana legalization—a main component of her platform.

Though the former San Francisco district attorney and California attorney general hasn’t always been friendly to cannabis reform, Harris’s evolution on the issue has earned her an A grade from NORML.

Legislation And Policy Actions

Harris sponsored the Senate version of a marijuana descheduling bill in July 2019 that also contains a series of social equity provisions such as providing for expungements of federal cannabis convictions and funding programs aimed at repairing the harms of prohibition enforcement.

“Times have changed—marijuana should not be a crime,” Harris said when introducing the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act. “We need to start regulating marijuana, and expunge marijuana convictions from the records of millions of Americans so they can get on with their lives.

The senator first came out in support of legalization in 2018, adding her name to a far-reaching marijuana bill introduced by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ). The legislation would remove cannabis from the list of federally banned substances and also penalize states where marijuana laws are enforced disproportionately against people of color. She also cosponsored the 2019 version of the bill.

Beyond the MORE Act and Marijuana Justice Act, Harris has also co-sponsored the SAFE Banking Act, which would protect banks that work with marijuana businesses from federal punishment.

Harris also signed a letter alongside Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) that called on the Justice Department to stop blocking federal research into medical cannabis. In a separate sign-on letter, she joined her colleagues in requesting that lawmakers include protections for legal cannabis states in a spending bill.