Kamala Harris has just said: No one should go to jail for smoking weed

Kamala Harris has pledged to legalize marijuana at the federal level if she is elected president, as part of her campaign’s newly announced “Opportunity Agenda” aimed at Black male voters.

On Monday, the Harris campaign stated that, if she wins in November, she will work to "eliminate unjust legal barriers that disproportionately affect Black men and other Americans" by legalizing marijuana nationwide. She plans to collaborate with Congress to ensure the legal cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana becomes federal law.

The campaign also emphasized Harris' commitment to ensuring that Black men—who have long been overpoliced for marijuana-related offenses—can access wealth and job opportunities in the growing cannabis industry.

This promise to fully legalize marijuana goes beyond the current Biden administration’s approach, which focuses on rescheduling the drug and pardoning individuals with marijuana possession convictions