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Harris has decried racial inequity in marijuana arrests. An ACLU analysis of arrests from 2010 to 2018 found that Black people were 3.6 times more likely than white people to be arrested for ...
“I have felt for a long time we need to legalize it,” Harris said of cannabis on an episode of All the Smoke.
Matching bills were introduced to the House of Representatives by Jerry Nadler and to the Senate by Kamala Harris on July 23, 2019. At the time, Harris was a 2020 Democratic Party candidate for U.S. president. [7] The act was passed with a 24–10 majority by the House Judiciary Committee following markup on November 20, 2019.
Harris has decried racial inequity in marijuana arrests. An ACLU analysis of arrests from 2010 to 2018 found that Black people were 3.6 times more likely than white people to be arrested for ...
Harris oversaw more than 1,900 marijuana convictions as San Francisco district attorney between 2004 and 2011. Kamala Harris urges black men to vote for her to legalize weed — despite convicting ...
During her brief and unimpressive bid for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Harris promised that she would "take action to legalize marijuana, further reform federal sentencing laws ...
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign rally at the Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum on the campus of East Carolina University on October 13, 2024 in Greenville, North Carolina.
During the counterculture of the 1960s, attitudes towards marijuana and drug abuse policy changed as marijuana use among "white middle-class college students" became widespread. [3] In Leary v. United States (1969), the U.S. Supreme Court held the Marihuana Tax Act to be unconstitutional since it violated the Fifth Amendment.