Marijuana legalization features prominently in 2020 Democrats' criminal justice reform plans, but many repeat the common misbelief that the drug plays a major role in mass incarceration. 
Marijuana companies will be able to do business with banks under a proposal passed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, raising concerns from drug policy experts that drug traffickers will benefit. 
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) on acknowledged that Salon's editor-at-large D. Watkins was “right” about police officers after he claimed they “they just harass and take up space in poor communities.”
Colorado's experiment with marijuana legalization has been an epic disaster, according to one doctor seeing its effects on the front lines. Dr. Karen Randall, an emergency room physician certified in "cannabis science and medicine," said the legalization of marijuana has damaged, rather than helped her home state. 
Americans spent on the order of $150 billion on cocaine, marijuana, heroin, and methamphetamine in 2016 alone, according to a report. Researchers at the non-partisan RAND corporation found that illegal narcotics generated as much business as the amusement and gambling industry in 2016 after conducting an exhaustive analysis of drug use and spending data. 
More Americans use products infused with cannabidiol (CBD) than use marijuana or other illegal drugs, according to a Gallup poll. CBD, one of marijuana's active ingredients, has risen swiftly in prominence despite a lack of scientific understanding or careful regulation of the substance. 
The Free Beacon's finding that Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) had locked up at least 1,560 people for marijuana-related offenses while she was California's attorney general was off, according to California's Department of Corrections, which now says at least 1,974 were admitted to prison under Harris. 
Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) dismissed an attack Wednesday by Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) on her controversial record as a prosecutor, calling herself a "top-tier candidate" getting attacked by someone at "zero or 1 percent." 
When state representative Jeff Irwin introduced a bill that would automatically expunge about 235,000 misdemeanor records for marijuana use and possession without going through the costly court system, he said he wanted to save taxpayers money. 
Legal medical marijuana does not drive down opioid overdose deaths, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, refuting an earlier study that found evidence they did. 