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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) is in presidential campaign mode and he has made marijuana reform a critical issue of his platform. So why doesn't he cosponsoring new bipartisan legislation to shield legitimate cannabis states from federal interventions introduced in Congress last week?

The Senator signed on an earlier version of the bill that was filed last year. And he repeatedly states that states should gain autonomy to put their own marijuana policies. It would be achieved during the proposed bill, but he refused to add his name as an original co-sponsor to strengthen the tenth state-of-the-art legislation (STATES).

The rationale behind his decision was unclear until Tuesday when Booker told VICE is Matt Laslo that he was holding back his support because the bill didn't go far enough to repair the racially disproportionate ban on bans.

"At this point, it is too obvious and unfortunate and unfair that we move something on the marijuana at federal level, and it does nothing on restorative justice," he told VICE. "I want the bill to have some confirmation of the unfair injustices that the marijuana ban has done for societies."

"I get very angry when people talk about the legalization of marijuana and then do not shed light on how marijuana law enforcement was done in Ways fed on poor communities ̵[ads1]1; black and brown communities. This is a war on drugs that has not been a war on drugs – there has been a war against people, and disproportionately poor people and disproportionately black and brown people. "

Listening to the Democratic Candidate Competition on its 2020 Drug Philosophy Late reveals some of a shift that places greater emphasis on social equity – and Booker seems to indicate that the state law does not meet the standard of reform.

" We basically promise In this country that has treated people differently, "Booker said in separate comments last month." I hope all of us when talking about marijuana legalization or marijuana decriminalization, in the same breath we must talk about pushing out registers of anyone still suffering. "

Under Senator's own Marijuana Justice Act, federal courts had to extend records of people convicted of owning or consuming cannabis. It would be further, by federal descheduling of cannabis and criminal prosecution states that enforce marijuana laws on a rational or socio-economic disproportionate way by holding back certain federal funds, and it saved the pen Giving would go against social investment work, such as job training programs.

"Senator Booker is right that for any marijuana legalization bill to pass the congress, it must have robust legal justice provisions," Michael Collins, national director of the Drug Policy Alliance, told Marijuana Moment. "We need to take steps to address the accident to the war on drugs, and we hope that more members of Congress will embrace Booker's position."

It is already clear that Booker is working to distinguish himself from the current amount of pro-legalization democratic presidential hopefuls. For example, he seemed to make a blatant criticism of late Kamala Harris (D-CA) after she made a shining admission that she used marijuana during college.

"We have presidential candidates and congressmen and senators who are now talking about their marijuana using almost as if it's funny," he said last month. "But in the meantime, in 2017, we had more arrests for marijuana possession in this country than all the violent criminal arrests combined. "

In the same campaign, Booker also stopped" did not talk to me about the legalization of marijuana, unless in the same breath as you are talking to me about separating the records of the millions of people suffering of not being able to find a job, "exploiting his law.

Booker's criticism of what he sees as missing from state law, filed by competing presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), could provide another way for the senator to separate from the package in the race, although Warren and Harris, along with other practitioners, also signed as co-sponsors of his Marijuana Justice Act.

The STATS Act is a relatively non-controversial Versatile, double-sided bill, as far as cannabis reform in Congress goes. It has a state's rights focus that has appealed to even some historically anti-marijuana lawmakers such as Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA), who approved the law in a letter to the chair of the Court of Justice.

"[I] t sound like I need to talk to Cory Booker about fixing a federal state conflict, said beds Cory Gardner (R-CO), the top republican co-sponsor of the Senate version of the STATER law, to VICE." This is about fixing a conflict in federal and state law that needs to be done and that is quite simple. So I think he would be hard pressed to vote against it. "

To be clear, while Booker holds his name as co-sponsor of the bill, he has not said he would vote against it – a prospect that would almost certainly sink the chances of clearing the Judges Committee, of which he is a member, if In the 116th Congress, the state law also seems to have revealed further political figures in the marijuana policy of the Democratic Party, late Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) removed his name from the original co-sponsor list after have supported the latest version, for example, but lawyers suspect that the decision reflects what they see as the Senator's disingenuous former support, which came amid a re-election battle with progressive challenger, Sen. Kevin de Leon (D) state.

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