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She co-sponsored a bill to fully legalize it in 2018. Behind closed doors she was advocating for legalizing it as VP, but Biden doesn't support full legalization so it would've been a bad look for him if his VP was publicly going against him when he was still running

VP debates usually don't move the needle much. I mean all most people remember from the Pence vs Harris debate was the fly on Mike Pence

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Worth noting that what she said more than just hinting like the headline suggests. She's directly stating it should be legalized

"We have come to a point where we have to understand that we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior," Harris said on an episode of the "All the Smoke" podcast released on Monday

Also worth noting that as senator she also co-sponsored legalization in 2018 that would've fully legalized weed

And credit to Walz for succinctly calling it out. If he didn't, most of the news coverage would have glazed right passed it

Saw someone else reply with this to it and it kind of sent me a bit

Best line of the debate in my opinion

Hey now, Chickens can put up a fight when they need to and are smarter than people think. Can we really say the same about trump?

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The part that happened in May was the actual rule being formally proposed.

It [the formal rule proposal] is the next step in the rescheduling process begun by Biden in October 2022, and follows a recommendation by the Department of Health and Human Services in August to reclassify marijuana.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/16/biden-announces-marijuana-reclassification-00158408

He actually started the reschedule process in 2022, but before that there were attempts by dems to do legalization via legislation but in the senate that didn't end up getting enough votes.

Rescheduling via legislation is more direct and skips the lengthy process describe in the law for executive action. The president is not able to immediately snap their fingers and reschedule. People within the DEA / other agencies have showed it down since 2022. It's at the last stages now after the public comment hearing in December. For what it's worth, as VP Harris did try to call on the agencies to speed up said process but she has no direct power to do so