Take action: Marijuana justice finally moves in the Senate

Senate leaders just unveiled a public draft of their marijuana reform bill, the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. We’re happy to see that it includes vital social equity, reparative justice, and reinvestment provisions from the MORE Act which we championed in the House.

This is an historic chance to move federal reform forward in both chambers of Congress this year. But there are still exclusionary provisions in both bills that would deny justice to certain individuals, and we need to make our voices heard to get them removed.

Tell your members of Congress to make sure marijuana justice is done right and to move it forward this year.

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Dear Representative/Senator,

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Senators Booker, Wyden and Schumer just unveiled a public draft of the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act. I’m happy to see that this Senate marijuana reform bill includes vital social equity, reparative justice, and reinvestment provisions from the House-passed Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment & Expungement (MORE) Act.

Unfortunately, both bills contain exclusionary language that would continue to subject federal employees to drug testing for marijuana and deny certain individuals with marijuana convictions—who have already paid the highest price—the opportunity to expunge their records.

This is unacceptable and I call on the House to remove this exclusionary language from the MORE Act and swiftly pass the bill and implore the Senate to also remove this language ahead of bill introduction.

In order to truly end marijuana prohibition in a comprehensive way and begin to repair the egregious harms of the past, we cannot continue to make room for some to be left out because of laws that were unjust and racist to begin with. Any federal marijuana reform bill must be equally comprehensive to the devastation that has been caused by prohibition, particularly in Black, Latinx, and Indigenous communities. I urge you to remove exclusionary provisions to make sure marijuana legalization is done equitably and make marijuana justice a reality this session. Thank you.

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