It was over the weekend that presidential hopeful Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey (D) said that marijuana legislation is no joke.
This may have been a dig at Senator Kamala Harris who recently made jokes about her sentiment towards marijuana legalization.
Booker was asked where marijuana fits in his criminal justice agenda and he said that “a lot of people have a very different perspective on marijuana than I do.”
“We have presidential candidates and congresspeople and senators that now talk about their marijuana use almost as if it’s funny,” he said. “But meanwhile, in 2017, we had more arrests for marijuana possession in this country than all the violent crime arrests combined.”
Kamala had said that “Half my family is from Jamaica. Are you kidding me?” in an interview on The Breakfast Club about marijuana use. Kamala’s father also wasn’t pleased with her comments. Her father Donald Harris, is a Stanford University economics professor.
