Harris has the most progressive marijuana reform plan of any of the contenders who were shortlisted for vice president. Can she bring Joe Biden along?
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Going to Pot: Be Careful What You Wish For
Today on TAP: Corporate capitalism will ruin cannabis, too
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Marijuana Legalization Plan Shows Sanders Is No Socialist
His proposal seeks to create a class of marijuana small-business owners, rather than nationalizing the industry and forwarding the benefits to victims of marijuana prohibition.
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Cannabis, the Bipartisan Wonder Drug
Senate Republicans say impeachment will stop legislative progress. But the House embraced a bipartisan measure this week designed to give marijuana businesses unfettered banking access. Will the Senate back it?
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Sanders and Warren Vow to Legalize Marijuana Through Executive Action
The presidential candidates confirmed to the Prospect that their attorney general would delist cannabis from the Controlled Substances Act.
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Make Marijuana Effectively Legal
By rescheduling cannabis as a less dangerous narcotic, the next president can upend the drug war and the damaging effects on communities of color.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Cannabis Equity Con
Illinois wants to make sure its marijuana business benefits entrepreneurs of color. But that won’t be the kind of broad-based equity we need.
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Why We Must Legalize Marijuana
The federal prohibition of marijuana has been unnecessarily cruel—wasting billions of dollars, unjustly harming millions of lives, and furthering racist policies.Â
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DEA Wins the Battle but Is Losing the War on Marijuana
With a number of states moving toward legalization, stubbornness at the federal level may have little impact.
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Rand Paul’s Attack on Jeb Bush’s Pot ‘Hypocrisy’ Heralds a Signal Issue for 2016 Campaign
With pot legalization measures appearing on 2016 ballots in some six states, presidential candidates will have to answer a tricky question.
