Elizabeth Warren, who is hoping to be the Democrat runner up against President Trump for the new presidency, has been a vocal supporter for the marijuana movement.

In her new plan revealed on Sunday by her 2020 presidential campaign, the Massachusetts senator laid out how she would legalize the drug and put an end to a “broken system.”

“We’ll regulate the industry so it’s safe and legal,” she wrote on Medium. “And by reinvesting the tax revenue earned from marijuana sales, we’ll begin to rebuild communities devastated by the policies of the failed War on Drugs, and ensure that those communities are equally able to participate in the budding cannabis industry.”

She calls for “full legalization, as quickly as possible,” and says she would start by passing a bill introduced by Sen. Kamala Harris, a former fellow Democratic primary candidate. This bill, called the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement [MORE] Act, would effectively decriminalize marijuana at the federal level by removing the drug from the government’s list of banned substances.

The MORE Act would also create a process for those with prior marijuana convictions to get their records expunged, as well as require courts to grant resentencing hearings for people still serving time.

“I’ll appoint agency heads, including at the Department of Justice, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, who support legalization,” Warren also wrote. “In my first 100 days, I’ll direct those agencies to begin the process of delisting marijuana via the federal rule-making process.”

“It’s about undoing a century of racist policy that disproportionately targeted Black and Latino communities,” she also wrote. “It’s about rebuilding the communities that have suffered the most harm. And it’s about ensuring that everyone has access to the opportunities that the new cannabis market provides.”


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