{"id":53293,"date":"2021-04-06T16:13:06","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/kamala-harris-says-biden-is-too-busy-to-decriminalize-weed-right-now\/"},"modified":"2021-04-06T16:13:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T16:13:06","slug":"kamala-harris-says-biden-is-too-busy-to-decriminalize-weed-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/news\/kamala-harris-says-biden-is-too-busy-to-decriminalize-weed-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamala Harris Says Biden Is “Too Busy” to Decriminalize Weed Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Everyone is over the pandemic, and more than 75 percent of Americans<\/a> want federal weed legalization now. But it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen as quickly as some politicians \u2014 cough, Chuck Schumer<\/a>, cough \u2014 have alluded to. Why? Because Covid is still raging. <\/p>\n

In fact, Vice President Kamala Harris just said that the Biden Administration is knee-deep in managing the coronavirus mess it inherited from the Trump Administration right now, and thus, isn’t focused on pushing cannabis reform policy through. <\/p>\n

The vice president was recently asked about cannabis policy in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> and said \u201cwe haven\u2019t yet taken that on\u201d despite campaign promises to push for reforms, such as decriminalization and expunging criminal records for pot offenses.<\/p>\n

\u201cHonestly, right now, we\u2019ve been focused on getting people food, helping them stay in their apartments or in their homes, getting kids back to school, getting shots into arms,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cThat has been all-consuming.\u201d<\/p>\n