Gist: Sen. Cory Booker Has a Message for Pot Smokers




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Summary: Democratic New Jersey <a href="https://twitter.com/CoryBooker">Sen. Cory Booker</a> has rolled out the kind of marijuana legalization bill <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/1/1686036/-Sen-Booker-introduces-most-far-reaching-bill-to-legalize-marijuana-ever">progressives love to fawn over</a> and <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2017/08/01/cory-bookers-revolutionary-marijuana-ref">libertarians love to ridicule</a>. The plan would pressure states to legalize marijuana by withholding federal money. Booker cedes that the bill’s passage doesn’t seem imminent, but he likens marijuana legalization to gay marriage, another proposal that saw a rapid surge in popular support: “I’m believing in—I’m claiming a sea change coming in the future.”<br>In the Spiel, what is justice for Bowe Bergdahl?