Democrats Include A Path To Marijuana Legalization In Their Platform In Another Surprising Nod To Sanders
Despite his loss in the primary for the Democratic nomination, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has scored notable victories in shaping the party platform. The platform will include policies actively campaigned for by Sanders over the past year, including raising the minimum wage to $15, expanding Social Security benefits, establishing stricter sanctions for Wall Street fraud, and even abolishing the death penalty — all policies rival and presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton either didn’t support or was lukewarm about. As of Saturday, in another surprising nod to Sanders’ progressive vision for the future, the Democratic platform will include a path to marijuana legalization through an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act proposed by David King, a lawyer appointed to the committee by Sanders.
This “reasoned pathway to future legalization” of marijuana will call for the drug to be downgraded in the Controlled Substances Act, “policies that will allow more research on marijuana,” and reforming current laws “to allow legal marijuana...
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