Alabama Democratic Party favors legalizing recreational, medical marijuana

Alabama Democratic Party favors legalizing recreational, medical marijuana
AL.com
3 hrs ago
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A sign outside the Alabama Democratic Party headquarters in Montgomery.
The Alabama Democratic Party today announced support for legalizing marijuana for recreational and medical use in the state.
Rep. Chris England of Tuscaloosa, the state Democratic Party chair, said legalization would help fix problems in the criminal justice system and boost the economy.
“Nearly 100 years of marijuana prohibition and criminalization has trapped thousands of Alabamians, mostly Black, in our broken criminal justice system,” England said in a press release. “Reforming policy surrounding cannabis not only serves our state in producing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues, but is an important step in reducing arrests and expunging records. Nobody should be sitting in jail for carrying a little bit of weed.”

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