Vice President Kamala Harris is pledging to federally legalize marijuana, ensuring that access to cannabis is “the law of the land.” If elected, she will “break down unjust legal barriers that hold Black men and other Americans back by legalizing marijuana nationally, working with Congress to ensure that the safe cultivation, distribution, and possession of recreational marijuana is the law of the land,” the Harris campaign said on Monday.
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The odor of cannabis can no longer be the only thing police notice in order to search a vehicle during a traffic stop after an Illinois Supreme Court ruling last week. The consolidated cases had different outcomes in the appellate court. The Illinois Supreme Court heard the case in January. Representing the state, attorney Mitchell Ness said while cannabis is legal for medical reasons and now recreational purposes, products must be sealed in an odor-proof container when it’s being transported.

Cannabis, or marijuana, has come a long way on the road back to legitimacy in the United States, and it soon may pass an important milestone: rescheduling. That’s the technical term for reclassifying it as a less dangerous drug, which would loosen some restrictions around it at the federal level.

Cannabis was widely used as medicine in the 1800s and early 1900s. But Congress effectively criminalized it in 1937 with passage of the Marihuana Tax Act. However, starting in 1996, marijuana has since become accessible in most states for adult medical or recreational use.

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