Demonstrators gather in front of the White House to demand the release of all people incarcerated for cannabis-related offenses, includingJoe Biden repeatedly pledged to decriminalize marijuana, President Biden still hasn’t fulfilled that promise. Instead, Biden is pushing watered down marijuana reform and nice-sounding rhetoric in hopes of reaching more voters, particularly Black, Latinx and young voters.
While marijuana laws have shifted at the state level in a relatively short time, people across the country carry the collateral consequences of marijuana records — and the looming threat of federal criminalization — with them every day. Our current patchwork of marijuana laws leaves glaring holes through which tens of thousands of people fall each year — most of them poor, Black, Latinx or Indigenous.
The CAOA would not only federally decriminalize marijuana and automatically expunge federal marijuana records but would create a regulatory framework rooted in social equity that prioritizes public health, upholds states’ rights, protects workplace safety, creates economic opportunities for small businesses and addresses the harms of the failed war on drugs.
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