Jack, New York just became the 16th state to legalize marijuana in America. The legislation not only legalizes possession of the substance, but also regulates sales and bars police from searching vehicles due to smelling marijuana. We must continue applying pressure for Congress to pass legislation on the federal level.
Sign the petition NOW. We must end the war on marijuana and demand Congress to pass the MORE Act.
SIGN THE PETITION
The MORE - the Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment and Expungement - Act would decriminalize cannabis for adults by removing it from the list of controlled substances, eliminate related criminal penalties, and take several other major steps toward criminal justice reform, social justice, and economic development.
On December 4, the House passed the MORE Act. However, the new Congress was sworn in back in January, so the process has to start over again.
Now is the time to ask your Congressional reps and Senators to bring this legislation back to Congress. We must pass the MORE Act.
America’s war on drugs provided the mechanism for decades of policing and brutality. Someone is arrested for a marijuana offense every 58 seconds. There were 545,601 marijuana arrests in the country in 2019, and 92% of these arrests were for marijuana possession alone — not for sale or manufacturing.
In the U.S., there are more arrests for marijuana possession each year than for all violent crimes combined. These arrests disproportionately target Black and brown people. Overall, Black people are nearly four times as likely to be arrested for marijuana-related offenses than white people.
Millions of people have been impacted by the war on cannabis since the 1930s. Every year, hundreds of thousands of Black and brown people are imprisoned, torn from their families, no longer qualify for federal student aid, lose their right to vote, and then struggle to financially sustain themselves when they are released. It is time for this bogus war to end.
Sign the petition NOW. We must end the war on marijuana and demand Congress to pass the MORE Act.
SIGN THE PETITION
Keep Fighting,
Cayana Mackey, Daily Kos
Daily Kos, PO Box 70036, Oakland, CA, 94612.
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