Kamala Harris Says ‘Nobody’ Should Be Jailed for ‘Smoking Weed,’ Despite Prosecuting Nearly 2K Marij

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Kamala Harris Says ‘Nobody’ Should Be Jailed for ‘Smoking Weed,’ Despite Prosecuting Nearly 2K Marijuana Cases

Wendell Husebø 16 Mar 2024

“Nobody” should go to jail for “smoking weed,” Vice President Kamala Harris said Friday, despite having prosecuted nearly 2,000 cases of marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale as California’s attorney general.

Harris’s public flip-flop is likely due to the politics of a difficult reelection campaign in which the Biden-Harris ticket is losing to former President Donald Trump in 75 percent of 2024 swing states, polling shows.

Harris condemned prosecuting those who smoke flowers while speaking at a roundtable event about cannabis reform with musician Fat Joe and Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear (D).

“I believe – I think we all at this table believe – nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed,” she said. “And what we need to do is recognize that far too many people have been sent to jail for simple marijuana possession.”

As attorney general, Harris’s record of prosecuting those in the marijuana industry is complicated, as Yahoo reported:

    Harris oversaw roughly 1,956 misdemeanor and felony convictions for “marijuana possession, cultivation, or sale,” according to Reuters. However, defense attorneys and prosecutors in Harris’ office told Mercury News that most of the people convicted during this period did not serve jail time. And convictions for marijuana did go down under Harris’ tenure as district attorney.

While Harris was a United States senator, she supported decriminalizing marijuana. In 2017, she signed Sen. Cory Booker’s legislation to decriminalize the flower at the federal level.

In a 2016 presidential debate, Harris took heat from former Democrat Tulsi Gabbard about the contradiction. “She put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations,” Gabbard said. “And then laughed about it when she asked if she ever smoked marijuana.”

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/16/kamala-harris-says-nobody-should-be-jailed-smoking-weed-prosecuting-2k-marijuana-cases/

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If we had journalism, someone would ask her something regarding this contradiction

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If we had journalism, someone would ask her something regarding this contradiction

Yeah, wouldn't that be something?

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Yeah, wouldn't that be something?

The reason why she gets away with this because she knows no one in the legacy media is going to ask her about it

This is one of the most unfortunate aspect of the decline of journalism in this country. This is beyond just having a political bias. This is the media actively campaigning for a candidate and hiding and covering up anything that would harm their candidate of choice


This was most obvious with the “Hunter Biden Laptop is a Russian hoax” claim. A simple act of journalism would’ve found out that that’s not true. But it was more important to protect Joe Biden in an election year.