JUANA SUMMERS, HOST:President Biden announced yesterday that he is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of simple possession of marijuana under federal law. New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker has been an advocate for changing federal marijuana policy, and he's on the line now. So in the president's announcement yesterday, he said that too many lives have been upended because of this country's failed approach on this issue. The pardons he announced yesterday directly impact roughly 6,500 people with federal convictions and an additional several thousand more in the District of Columbia. As a person who went to Stanford and Yale and grew up in high school in an affluent area, lots of people used marijuana.

Source: CNN October 07, 2022 21:06 UTC