Despite marijuana not being a topic at the first debate between Democrats running for president, one presidential hopeful was glad that Illinois legalized recreational marijuana.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), who is a co-sponsor of the federal Marijuana Justice Act, praised the state on Monday for legalizing the drug.
“Thankful states like Illinois are stepping up to correct the mistakes of our past,” Harris tweeted. “It’s time to do the same at the federal level.”
It was last week that Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker (D) had signed the Cannabis Regulation and Taxation Act, which will legalize the drug’s use at the beginning of next year.
The Act will allow licensed growth, sales, possession and consumption of cannabis for adults 21 and over.
Pritzker called the bill the most “equity-centric cannabis legalization in the nation.”
