DNC Rejecting Legal Marijuana In Platform Is ‘Shameful,’ Soon-To-Be Congressman Says

A Democratic congressional nominee who is all but certain to be elected to the House this November said on Thursday that it is “shameful” the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) platform committee recently rejected an amendment to make marijuana legalization a 2020 party plank. Mondaire Jones, a progressive attorney who won his party’s primary in New York’s strongly Democratic 17th congressional district last month, put DNC officials on notice during a virtual Netroots Nation event, calling them out for not advancing bold policies such as comprehensive cannabis reform and universal health care. “It is shameful to me that the Democratic platform…rejected the legalization of marijuana—something that really should not be controversial anymore, especially given what we’ve seen in our so-called criminal justice system, which I call the criminal legal system,” he said. “The incarceration of so many black and brown people, deliberately, intentionally a relic of Jim Crow.” "We're living in a time when majority of the American people support Medicare for All. It's shameful to me that the democratic platform does not include that,[and it]rejected the legalization of marijuana. That's something should not be controversial anymore" @MondaireJones #NN20 pic.twitter.com/Nk7AmxZxpn — People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) August 13, 2020 He added that voters shouldn’t necessarily rely on presidential nominees to pursue progressive policies that they are demanding and should instead expect to see leadership from Congress. “We can’t take for granted the fact that our nominees are going to govern in a way that we will want them to and it’s why…

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