Senator Cory Booker walked into a cannabis conference in Washington, D.C. and went straight for the jugular.
Justice, he told the room, starts with descheduling.
Booker appeared at the Cannabis Capital & Policy Summit, a one-day event in the nation’s capital produced by IgniteIt in partnership with the U.S. Cannabis Roundtable. The crowd was packed with CEOs, investors, policy experts and regulators, all trying to read the federal tea leaves in real time.
Booker’s appearance and remarks at the summit were first reported by IgniteIt.
On stage, Booker did not bother with soft landings.
“Justice is descheduling, we all know that. That’s what the right thing to do is: to deschedule,” he said. “But I will accept any progress over no progress.”
Then he sharpened the contrast.
“The idea that heroin and meth are the same as cannabis defies all science and reality,” Booker said. “And so to have it scheduled 1, have it the same schedule as these much more severe substances that we all know the consequences can be for our communities, is absurd.”
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The senator also reached back to the presidential debate stage, remembering the night he joked about Joe Biden’s platform on marijuana.
“I still remember I was standing next to Joe Biden and I said, ‘You know, Mr. Vice President, I looked at your marijuana laws that you’re putting forward in your campaign platform, and I have to say, respectfully, I think whoever wrote that platform plank must have been high when they did it,” Booker said. “Everybody in the auditorium laughed. My mom didn’t. She’s like, ‘Do not accuse the Vice President of the United States of being high.’ …
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Author: Javier Hasse / High Times
