Joe Biden is running for President of the United States in 2020 and he recently revealed how he feels about marijuana
According to a Biden campaign spokesman who spoke to CNN, he supports the decriminalization of the drug.
Before marijuana advocates start cheering, the spokesman also said the former vice president isn’t calling for marijuana to be legalized on the federal level either.
“Nobody should be in jail for smoking marijuana,” Biden said this week at a house party in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Spokesman Andrew Bates said Biden believes the drug should be decriminalized and that decisions on legalization should continue on the state level.
“As he said [Tuesday], Vice President Biden does not believe anyone should be in jail simply for smoking or possessing marijuana. He supports decriminalizing marijuana and automatically expunging prior criminal records for marijuana possession, so those affected don’t have to figure out how to petition for it or pay for a lawyer,” Bates said to CNN.
“He would allow states to continue to make their own choices regarding legalization and would seek to make it easier to conduct research on marijuana’s positive and negative health impacts by rescheduling it as a schedule 2 drug,” he added.
