AOC Supports Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Move, Even If It ‘Doesn’t Quite Make All The Wrongs Right’
The LCB’s Matt Laslo interviews AOC on the Capitol steps about rescheduling marijuana for his wire service client Marijuana Moment
Rep. AOC answers questions at the US Capitol. Photo: Logan Johnson © www.thelcb.com
By Tom Angell, Marijuana Moment
WASHINGTON — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) supports the Trump administration’s move to reschedule marijuana under federal law—but she also worries that enacting incremental cannabis reforms without equity and social justice measures will leave behind many people who have been harmed by criminalization.
“This has always been an issue kind of at the heart of decriminalization,” the congresswoman told Marijuana Moment in an interview on the Capitol Steps on Wednesday.
“Many of the people who profited from the war on drugs will then profit also—double down on that profit—from legalization,” she said. “And then the folks who were criminalized and had their lives destroyed by the war on drugs never get to see justice or have that made right. So I think that is a fundamental difference that we have here in the approach to that.”
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Read Marijuana Moment’s report here: AOC Supports Trump’s Marijuana Rescheduling Move, Even If It ‘Doesn’t Quite Make All The Wrongs Right’
