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Harris reaffirms support for marijuana legalization |
Vice President Harris said during an interview on the "All the Smoke" podcast she thinks marijuana needs to be legalized. |
Harris said on the podcast released Monday that it's a position she's long held, but it marks the first time she has spoken up on the issue publicly since she became the Democratic nominee. "I just think we have come to a point where we have to understand that we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior," Harris said during a nearly hourlong interview on the sports and culture podcast. "I just feel strongly people should not be going to jail for smoking weed," she told hosts Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson. "And we know historically what that has meant and who has gone to jail." Harris had not previously clarified her stance on marijuana since launching her campaign. There is no reference to it on her campaign website, and she avoided answering specific questions about her position as recently as last week. Harris's views on marijuana have evolved over the years, much like the public's. - As a senator, Harris co-sponsored legislation to end the federal prohibition of marijuana. When she was running for president in 2019, she called for expunging nonviolent marijuana-related criminal offenses, something the Biden administration has now implemented.
- But she has been criticized for aggressively prosecuting marijuana-related crimes when she was San Francisco's district attorney and California's attorney general. She also spoke out against Proposition 19, the failed 2010 California ballot measure to legalize and regulate marijuana. Harris supported medical marijuana.
Earlier this year, the Biden administration also announced it started on the formal rulemaking process to reschedule marijuana from a Schedule I designation to a Schedule III designation. But President Biden has stopped short of calling for full legalization, making Harris's support more notable. |
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Georgia's "heartbeat" law banning abortion after six weeks is unconstitutional and can't be enforced, a Fulton County superior judge ruled Monday. The ruling permanently enjoined the law and stated that abortions must now be regulated as they were before Georgia's 2019 law took effect in July 2022, meaning they are allowed until fetal viability at about 22 weeks of pregnancy. Judge Robert McBurney said the state … |
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California last week clocked its fourth case of locally transmitted dengue fever this year — an alarming rise in a sometimes-deadly disease that experts fear could be fueled by climate change. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed the newest incidence of the mosquito-borne illness in a resident of Panorama City, a neighborhood in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley. The department noted that the individual … |
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One day before Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) and Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) face off in the vice presidential debate, the Harris-Walz campaign has released a more than 40-page report attacking the Trump-Vance health care plan, which the Democratic ticket says will "eliminate health insurance and raise costs for tens of millions of Americans." "After nearly a decade of endlessly promising to reveal his health care plan, Donald … |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) on Tuesday night will take part in their first debate as vice-presidential nominees on CBS News at 9 p.m. EDT. The debate is among the last major public events in which either campaign can hope to sway the highly competitive race. The Hill will be following the debate live.
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Massachusetts governor says a hospital was seized through eminent domain to keep it open |
BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey announced Friday that her administration has formally seized a hospital through eminent domain to help keep it open and transition to a new owner. St. Elizabeth Medical Center in Boston is one of a group operated by Texas-based Steward Health Care, which had announced its bankruptcy in May. … |
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Local and state headlines on health care: |
- Proposition 36: California voters consider tough love for repeat drug offenders (KFF Health News)
- Louisiana's new abortion pill law may delay lifesaving care for women, doctors say (NBC News)
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Health news we've flagged from other outlets: |
- Abortion groups are raising more money than ever. Where exactly is it going? (Vox)
- Polls show big increase in Republicans planning to vote for abortion rights (Washington Post)
- Health care CEOs dialed back their pay in 2023. They still made $3.5 billion (Stat)
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| Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned of an October surprise that will "distort and pervert" Vice President Harris. "There will be concerted … Read more |
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